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Comments by two prominent Nigerians last week highlighted the materialism that has permeated the nation’s soul. Popular author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ...
A24’s proverbial second date with Celine Song features the triumvirate of Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans and Pedro Pascal in a ...
Materialism is a very old theory of human behavior, most strongly identified with Marx and Engels. In a recent essay defending the idea, NYU sociologist Vivek Chibber locates its core premise as ...
The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ola Olukoyede, has identified Nigeria’s materialistic and ostentatious value system as a major driver of corruption in the country.
The rise of social media platforms such as Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and many more have created an environment where materialism thrives.
Today's letters: Forget materialism, show compassion Friday, Jan. 10: With the holiday gift-giving season behind us, it's time for acts of kindness, a reader says.
Jimmy Carter Was Right About Materialism but, Alas, Wrong About Us “Too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption,” he said in his 1979 “Crisis of Confidence” speech.
Dialectical Materialism and Psychoanalysis by W. Reich, Socialist Reproduction, 57d Jamestown Road, London NW1. 25p (postage included), April 1972. Socialist Reproduction are to be congratulated for ...
The culture of materialism is on the rise these days. It’s all about wanting and having lots of stuff. This puts society, as a whole, at risk. As society becomes more materialistic, it forgets ...
Materialism and Methodist Church Nigeria A materialistic church is a contradiction in terms because a church is expected to be non-materialistic.
For her latest book, “ Material Contradictions in Mao’s China,” which she co-edited with Oxford’s Jennifer Altehenger, several scholars of Chinese art, cinema, culture and more contribute essays on ...
The contradiction between idealism and materialism is that no material reality can be changed without an ideal inspiring that change. Likewise no ideal can arise without a change in material reality.