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"ref": "1824, Thomas Carlyle, “Goethe”, in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, edited by H[enry] D[uff] Traill, Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship and Travels: Translated from the German of Goethe […] (The Works of Thomas Carlyle; XXIII), centenary edition, volume I, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, footnote 1, page 22",
"text": "[W]hen he [Christoph Friedrich Nicolai] wrote against [Immanuel] Kant's philosophy, without comprehending it; and judged of poetry as he judged of Brunswick mum, by its utility, many people thought him wrong. A man of such spiritual habilitudes is now by the Germans called a Philister, Philistine: Nicolai earned for himself the painful pre-eminence of being Erz-Philister, Arch-Philistine. [...] At present the literary Philistine seldom shows, never parades, himself in Germany; and when he does appear, he is in the last stage of emaciation.",
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"ref": "1867 July, Matthew Arnold, “Culture and Its Enemies”, in The Cornhill Magazine, volume XVI, number 91, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC, page 42",
"text": "If it were not for this purging effect wrought upon our minds by culture, the whole world, the future as well as the present, would inevitably belong to the Philistines.",
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"ref": "1868 July 18, “Nicknames”, in Every Saturday: A Journal of Choice Reading, Selected from Foreign Current Literature, volume VI, number 133, Boston, Mass.: Fields, Osgood, & Co., successors to Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 92, column 1",
"text": "Even the most pig-headed vestry-man feels that something unpleasant has been said about him when he has been called a Philistine, though he may have the vaguest possible conception of its precise meaning. [...] It is used so vaguely by people who are themselves Philistines of the deepest dye, that it is in danger of losing its meaning.",
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"ref": "1880, “MATTHEW ARNOLD”, in Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers, editors, Chambers’s Cyclopædia of English Literature […], 3rd edition, volume VII, New York, N.Y.: American Book Exchange, […], →OCLC, page 155",
"text": "Mr. [Matthew] Arnold has no patience with the middle-class ‘Philistines’ the dullards and haters of light, who care only for what is material and practical.",
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"ref": "1905 July 1, F. H. Bolton, “That Poetic Johnny”, in The Boy’s Own Paper, volume XXVII, number 1381, London: “Boy’s Own Paper” Office, […], →OCLC, page 635, column 2",
"text": "\"Oh, the Philistine! The boorish Philistine!\" he murmured; [...]",
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"ref": "1923 May, “Pornolagny and Realism”, in The Urologic and Cutaneous Review, volume XXVII, number 5, St. Louis, Mo.: Urologic and Cutaneous Press, →OCLC, page 322, column 2",
"text": "In politics this type of philistine has more than once denounced the \"golden rule\" as an \"iridescent dream\" of a lunatic. Such philistinism pleases the misoneism of the mediocre, whence the enthusiasm over platitudes and the reign of the philistine in newspaper art, literature and science.",
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"ref": "1957 spring, Herbert Read, “The Unity of the Arts”, in Dimension, volume 3, number 1, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Students of the College of Architecture and Design of the University of Michigan, →OCLC, page 4",
"text": "The object of such an aesthetic education is not the creation of a society of aesthetes. Aesthetes, in that pejorative sense, are as unbalanced as philistines.",
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"ref": "1979, Tom Wolfe, “Foreword”, in The Right Stuff, →OCLC",
"text": "War was looked upon as inherently monstrous, and those who waged it – namely, military officers – were looked upon as brutes and philistines.",
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"ref": "1988 October 7, Anthony Adler, “Some Men Need Help”, in Chicago Reader, Chicago, Ill.: Chicago Reader, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC",
"text": "[A]s if to say, \"Relax, folks, we're all philistines here; we're not gonna throw you anything that's over your head\"—the Victory Gardens [Theater] invites a more sophisticated response.",
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"ref": "2002, Dave Beech, John Roberts, “Spectres of the Aesthetic”, in Dave Beech, John Roberts, The Philistine Controversy, London, New York, N.Y.: Verso, part 1 (The New Left Review Debate), page 43",
"text": "[Fredric] Jameson points out that for [Theodor Wiesengrund] Adorno philistines are not 'those who do not \"understand\" art or, better still, who do not \"understand\" modern art; rather, they understand it only too well.' [...] Jameson argues that what the philistine finds incomprehensible is modern art's deferral of happiness. The modern art-lover, on the other hand, defends art's deferral of happiness as the only guarantee of preserving universal happiness at the moment of recognizing its present absence.",
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"ref": "2023 September 22, Amala Ratna Zandile Dlamini (lyrics and music), “Agora Hills”, in Amala Ratna Zandile Dlamini (lyrics), Amala Ratna Zandile Dlamini (music), Scarlet (Compact Disc), performed by Doja Cat, Los Angeles: Kemosabe Records, published 2023",
"text": "They all want to know how you get to me, let them feel how they feel and be philistines because this type of love's the epitome said.",
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"code": "hu",
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "person who is ignorant or uneducated; specifically, a person who lacks appreciation of culture",
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "person who is ignorant or uneducated; specifically, a person who lacks appreciation of culture",
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"code": "ko",
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"sense": "person who is ignorant or uneducated; specifically, a person who lacks appreciation of culture",
"word": "속물적인 사람"
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"word": "실리주의자"
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "person who is ignorant or uneducated; specifically, a person who lacks appreciation of culture",
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"word": "filisteu"
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"code": "pt",
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"text": "Even the most pig-headed vestry-man feels that something unpleasant has been said about him when he has been called a Philistine, though he may have the vaguest possible conception of its precise meaning. [...] It is used so vaguely by people who are themselves Philistines of the deepest dye, that it is in danger of losing its meaning.",
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"text": "In politics this type of philistine has more than once denounced the \"golden rule\" as an \"iridescent dream\" of a lunatic. Such philistinism pleases the misoneism of the mediocre, whence the enthusiasm over platitudes and the reign of the philistine in newspaper art, literature and science.",
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"text": "[Fredric] Jameson points out that for [Theodor Wiesengrund] Adorno philistines are not 'those who do not \"understand\" art or, better still, who do not \"understand\" modern art; rather, they understand it only too well.' [...] Jameson argues that what the philistine finds incomprehensible is modern art's deferral of happiness. The modern art-lover, on the other hand, defends art's deferral of happiness as the only guarantee of preserving universal happiness at the moment of recognizing its present absence.",
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"ref": "2023 September 22, Amala Ratna Zandile Dlamini (lyrics and music), “Agora Hills”, in Amala Ratna Zandile Dlamini (lyrics), Amala Ratna Zandile Dlamini (music), Scarlet (Compact Disc), performed by Doja Cat, Los Angeles: Kemosabe Records, published 2023",
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},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "filistjórskij",
"sense": "lacking in appreciation for or antagonistic towards art or culture",
"word": "филистёрский"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "meščánskij",
"sense": "lacking in appreciation for or antagonistic towards art or culture",
"word": "меща́нский"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "obyvátelʹskij",
"sense": "lacking in appreciation for or antagonistic towards art or culture",
"word": "обыва́тельский"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "lacking in appreciation for or antagonistic towards art or culture",
"word": "filisteo"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "lacking in appreciation for or antagonistic towards art or culture",
"word": "filisteisk"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "lacking in appreciation for or antagonistic towards art or culture",
"tags": [
"archaic"
],
"word": "filiströs"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "lacking in appreciation for or antagonistic towards art or culture",
"word": "brackig"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "lacking in appreciation for or antagonistic towards art or culture",
"word": "kälkborgerlig"
},
{
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "lacking in appreciation for or antagonistic towards art or culture",
"word": "filistik"
},
{
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "lacking in appreciation for or antagonistic towards art or culture",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "filistanik"
},
{
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "lacking in appreciation for or antagonistic towards art or culture",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "hifilistanik"
},
{
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "lacking in appreciation for or antagonistic towards art or culture",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "jifilistanik"
},
{
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "lacking in appreciation for or antagonistic towards art or culture",
"tags": [
"collective",
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "filistanefik"
},
{
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "lacking in appreciation for or antagonistic towards art or culture",
"tags": [
"collective",
"masculine"
],
"word": "hifilistanefik"
},
{
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "lacking in appreciation for or antagonistic towards art or culture",
"tags": [
"collective",
"feminine"
],
"word": "hifilistanefik"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "lacking in appreciation for or antagonistic towards art or culture",
"word": "philistaidd"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Culture and Anarchy",
"Matthew Arnold",
"Oxford English Dictionary",
"The Cornhill Magazine",
"Thomas Carlyle",
"University of Jena"
],
"word": "philistine"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "adjective form"
},
"expansion": "philistine",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"French adjective forms",
"French entries with incorrect language header",
"French non-lemma forms"
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "philistin"
}
],
"glosses": [
"feminine singular of philistin"
],
"links": [
[
"philistin",
"philistin#French"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine",
"form-of",
"singular"
]
}
],
"word": "philistine"
}
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