Eclectic Society

Eclectic Society may refer to:

  • Eclectic Society (Christian) - English missionary and anti-slavery society, founded in London in 1783.
  • Eclectic Society (fraternity) - American college fraternity, Phi Nu Theta, founded at Wesleyan University in 1838.

Famous quotes containing the words eclectic and/or society:

    “Eclecticism is the degree zero of contemporary general culture: one listens to reggae, watches a western, eats McDonald’s food for lunch and local cuisine for dinner, wears Paris perfume in Tokyo and “retro” clothes in Hong Kong; knowledge is a matter for TV games. It is easy to find a public for eclectic works.”
    —Jean François Lyotard (b. 1924)

    “Currently, U.S. society has been encouraged by its political and subsidized mass-media intelligentsia to view U.S. life as a continual “morning in America” paradise, where the only social problems occur in the inner cities. Psychologists call this denial.”
    —Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)