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Showing 1 to 20 of 532 for “"Critical theory"”.
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CLOSE READING AND CRITICAL THEORY
<p>ABSTRACT</p> <p>CLOSE READING AND CRITICAL THEORY</p> <p>By</p> <p>Kimberly L. Rosewall</p> <p> Close reading is the very foundation of literary studies, yet this interpretive practice can be very difficult, especially for undergraduate students. The purpose of this study was to explore my own …
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Navigating Postmodernism & Critical Theory in Family Therapy
<p>Postmodern and critical theories have become important theoretical paradigms encouraging therapists to honor diversity and combat oppressive social structures and practices. However, at times, these two paradigms have been thought to position therapists in contradictory ways, with critical …
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Adorno, Aesthetics, and Critical Theory Beyond Europe
… which Theodor W. Adorno conceives of aesthetic theory in his late work, asking how such a theory may provide an opening for rethinking the role of critical theory beyond Europe. I begin by tracing Adorno’s thought back to the German Idealist tradition, foregrounding Kant’s critical project and …
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Putting Critical Theory into Practice through Action Research
… they do not know how or why they know or how to critically weave their knowledge into meaningful action.</p> <p>Through this critical action research. I used critical pedagogy to introduce marginalized students to the potential power of critical literacy. I hoped to ascertain if, through such an …
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Navigating the Void: Subjectivity and Contemporary Critical Theory
This dissertation argues that a feminist critical theory of event provides the political tradition of contemporary critical theory with important theoretical tools for the continued interrogation of our dominant socio-symbolic order as characterized by its prevailing structures, institutions and …
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THE PROBLEM OF WORK IN AXEL HONNETH'S CRITICAL THEORY
Questa tesi si propone di mostrare che l’analisi di Axel Honneth del lavoro sociale mediato dal mercato basata sulla teoria del riconoscimento, per quanto ancora valida e resiliente, richieda tuttavia un ulteriore perfezionamento. Obiettivo della tesi è quello di contribuire a questo scopo. In …
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Rethinking critical theory between Rancière and the Frankfurt School
… argue we can think both affirmative, disruptive critical theory as well as a modest ‘negative’ critical theory of unequal social structures.
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Max Scheler's Critical Theory: The Idea of Critical Phenomenology
… way core elements of phenomenology map on to the critical theory program in order to demonstrate phenomenology's relevance for ideology critique. "Critical phenomenology" means putting the findings of phenomenology to work for the sake of social critique. I argue that phenomenology gains a …
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A critical evaluation of Kantian themes in Habermas’s critical theory
This dissertation provides a critical evaluation of Kantian themes in the work of Jurgen Habermas. This is done by drawing largely on the thought of Hegel and Adorno. The basis for the critique is the conviction that Kant does not provide the best model for critical theory and that Kant’s thought …
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Rethinking misrecognition and struggles for recognition: critical theory beyond Honneth
This thesis critically analyzes Axel Honneth’s theories of misrecognition and struggles for recognition and argues for two main conceptualizations to address shortcomings in his theories. The first conceptualization is that recognition and misrecognition behaviors are better understood along three …
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History and ideality in Husserl, Derrida, and the Critical Theory tradition
… has troubled the Frankfurt School tradition of Critical Theory since its inception. Many thinkers in the Critical Theory tradition wish to avoid treating the normative ground as an abstract and ahistorical in-itself, and to connect it to concrete historical reality. It is, however, very …
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Contingencies : visualizing tensions between contemporary critical theory and Canadian art practice
… on deconstruction, formalism, and cultural theory as critical methodologies within the theory of art, it examines a range of cultural expressions and contemporary currents of thought relative to the problem of vision and visuality. As a terrain of enquiry whose key words emerge in this …
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An Application of Critical Theory to Educational Policy Making in Korea
… To this end, this study attempted to apply critical theory, specifically Jurgen Habermas's critical theory, to educational policy-making in Korea.
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Sin and Theory: Martin Luther's Hamartiology in Dialogue with Critical Theory
… thesis: that dialogue between theology and critical theory can be a highly generative approach to hamartiological impasses. Critical theory represents a dominant theoretical perspective that structures much work in the humanities and underpins a significant proportion of contemporary …
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Conflict and communication : critical theory, international relations and the intervention in Kosovo
This thesis examines contemporary developments in critical theory and good international citizenship in order to develop a normative framework for the evaluation of humanitarian intervention. Situated at the interface of critical theory and practice in international relations, the thesis …
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Media representations of the New Zealand economy: an exercise in critical theory
… For this purpose chapter one develops two critical perspectives. It is first explained how the capitalist political economy shapes the institutional and rhetorical character of the public sphere. Deploying the insights of Jürgen Habermas, claus offe and various media sociologists the public …
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A Social Critique of Reflexive Reason: Relocating Critical Theory After Habermas and Foucault
… our capacity for taking normative stances and critical action, concern Foucault profoundly. His goal is to reveal how we ourselves sustain power in multiple, if not always apparent ways. By making our responsibility for current conditions more apparent, genealogy also calls on us to take …
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Critical theory, transformative learning and mindfulness: A case study of a mindfulness training programme
… framework of my study include Habermas’s critical theory and his emancipatory-cognitive interest in knowledge creation, and Mezirow’s transformative learning theory, which expanded the Habermasian theory in terms of adult education and learning. Guided by my theoretical framework, the …
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A Dialectical Study of the Formalist Character of Kenneth Burke's Critical Theory and Practice
… Critics represent divergent approaches to the theory and practice of criticism. By using a telescoping dialectical method, this study unearthed considerable correspondence between Burke and the New Critics. Overall, this study found Burke to be more formalistic and the New Critics less …
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