objectification
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This adoration necessitated objectification, and from the 1970s onward, Updike’s fiction came in for a good deal of feminist scorn.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
Instead, “Companion” is content with being a rough draft of a movie about objectification, a lazy first pass that hopes its audience will mistake the insinuation of progressivism for the actual philosophy.
From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2025
Grammatically speaking, I’ve contemplated the power of the closeup, both an objectification and a privilege.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2024
People said programmes are less likely to include the objectification of women, gender stereotypes or uncritical views of exploitative relationships.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2023
Thus far then we may say: the adequate objectification of will through a merely spatial phenomenon is beauty, in the objective sense.
From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer
In this contemplation the mind is filled with pure intellectual forms, the ``Platonic Ideas'' as he calls them, which are objectifications of the will at a certain grade of completeness of representation.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg