radical ideas
Fundamentally transformative concepts
Radical ideas are proposals or beliefs that challenge fundamental assumptions or call for dramatic change to existing systems.
The phrase implies going to the root of things—radical shares its origin with radix, meaning root.
What counts as radical shifts with context: abolishing slavery was once radical; so was women voting.
The term can be approving Her radical ideas transformed the field or dismissive His radical ideas would never work in practice.
- dadaismAbsurdist artistic movement
- existentialismPhilosophy stressing self-created meaning
- surrealismIrrational, dreamlike aesthetic
- revolutionViolent governmental overthrow
- abolitionismMovement to end oppression
activism · anarchism · paradigm shift · postmodernism · free love · off the grid · deconstruction · feminism · utopianism · civil disobedience · nihilism · tabula rasa · blank slate · punk rock · iconoclasm · street art · socialism · critical theory
- EncyclopedieDiderot, d'Alembert, volumes, articles, entries
radical ideastweaks
Minor modifications
half-measures · tinkering · fine-tuning · baby steps · gradual change
radical ideasstatus quo
Existing condition of affairs
traditionalism · conservatism · traditional values · orthodoxy · received wisdom
radical ideasconventional wisdom
Generally accepted beliefs
received wisdom · platitudes · banalities · groupthink · common sense
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