Wrong-footed by the right's successful appropriation of the patriotism card, the
Manichean left adopts an anti-Americanism that is the exact mirror opposite of no-nothing patriotism, while the liberals cave to the "realities" of ever expanding defense spending and are stampeded into supporting (even if grudgingly) foreign policy adventurism.
While far less original and controversial than Hart claims, these ideas are worth repeating--especially as a critique of the
Manichean "with us or against us" political climate created by George W Bush and Karl Rove.
In other words the Michelmans and the Pages see the abortion debate in
Manichean termsthe forces of light and freedom versus forces of darkness and repression.
"We can't control [HIV] with principles that are
Manichean, theological, fundamentalist ..." Pedro Chequer, director of Brazil's AIDS programme and chair of the National Commission that decided to refuse the grants, said.
Rather, it is clear-sighted and informed, and, in true
Manichean fashion, on the side of the critical angels.
There are few Kumbaya moments in this film; the message of universal love is all but suppressed by a
Manichean worldview that perfectly suits the Bush doctrine of US power, and the climactic image of Christ striding forth from his tomb to the sound of drums is a prototype of shock and awe.
Haight's profoundly catholic emphasis on a God whose salvific presence is accessible to all creation is in conflict with the starkly
Manichean worldview that has guided this papacy and vitiated its claim to defend a catholic ecclesiology.
Just two pages later, Schelling calls creation itself the fall (Abfall), revealing a
Manichean understanding of the world.
All of this underlines the main point of my book, which does not need a
Manichean plot to be heartbreaking.
Michael Bernard-Donals treats postcolonialism in 'The
Manichean Problem in Post-Colonial Criticism; or, Why the Subaltern Cannot Speak' (pp.
This means that it is becoming necessary to discover alternative historical possibilities that require looking beyond the contemporary postcolonial nationalist state and its linear and
manichean views of the colonial past for the purpose to secure its shaking legitimacy.
