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A Standpoint for Critique: The Metaphorical Status of Critique in Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason'
<p>I argue that critique is an epistemologically significant Kantian metaphor for transcendental self-consciousness. This claim is complex, involving two antecedent propositions: (1) there is a Kantian theory of metaphor; (2) critique is such a metaphor.</p> <p> In Chapter 1, I argue that …
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Hegel's Critique of Representationalism
… first perspective, Hegel develops an internal critique of representationalism that shows it to be self-undermining. From the second perspective, Hegel claims that what appears from the first perspective as representational knowledge of a mind-independent object can be understood as a form of …
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The Critique of Regression
When we dream, Freud (1900) maintained, we slip backwards from a world of conscious action to an unconscious realm of infantile memory and desire. The residues of our waking life meet there with repressed primitive wishes capable of animating a dream. The idea of regression, with all of its …
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Performing gender : transgenderism as critique
This study is a critique of the social construction of gender through examining its performative nature in terms of filmic representations which deviate from the expected gender norms. Focus groups were conducted on M. Butterfly (1993) and Orlando (1992) which were selected because they are recent …
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Praxis and Critique: On Fugitive Politics
… engages simultaneously in an immanent critique of the ‘primacy of [decentered/ fugitive] praxis’ and the development of a critical theory of fugitive politics. The ‘primacy of praxis’ names a constellation of contemporary political thinking that has discovered, out of both the ruins of …
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Joschua: Analysis, Costume Design, and Critique
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Critique and neoliberalism in Michel Foucault
… dissertation argues that Foucault's concept of critique is a practice that principally consists of "desubjection" and the history of the present. Critique thinks the identity of its historical present on the basis of what escapes this identity. It participates in these escapes by exploring how …
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Theodicy : a critique and a proposal
… made by believers. In the light of this critique, two attempts are made to describe the shape of Christian theodicy using the interperson model of theological language. The first attempt, based on a description of actual interpersonal relationships, is found eventually to be open to …
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Marx's theory of money: A critique
The objective of the study is to evaluate Marx's theory of money in detail and to propose some major modifications in the light of theoretical achievements of Classical monetary writers, to provide a modified Marxian theory of money, inflation and crisis. There are two sides of Marx's monetary …
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A Postcolonial Critique of Tear Gas Use
… histories, and representations. A postcolonial critique of tear gas use will be presented through examining how earlier histories and their legacies perpetuate systems of domination that not only further exclude and marginalize particular groups but also rationalize their suppression through …
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Romanticizing Leadership: A Historical and Cultural Critique
Romanticism, a cultural and intellectual ideology of the late 18th and early 19th century, left a historical legacy of ecstasy and disaster upon subsequent generations. Manifestations of neo-romanticism are evident in many areas of contemporary culture. These modern manifestations, which include an …
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Sociological critique and the philosophy of practice
… of practice and is discovered in the notion of critique that designates an attempt to comprehend moral, economic and cultural forms as practical and historical configurations. What follows, in other words, is a prolonged meditation on the implications of a definition of sociology as critique. At …
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Knowledge, Power, and International Development: Beyond Critique
… Going beyond the customary anthropological critique of international development (Venkatesan and Yarrow, 2012), this thesis considers the contemporary relevance of Foucault’s theories about power and knowledge to international development policy and practice.
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A critique of the filtrability of bacteria
Thesis (M.S.)--Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science3 1933
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A critique of participatory development in Pakistan
This study, a critical analysis of participatory development, was empirically conducted within a participatory development NGO in Pakistan, namely the Sarhad Rural Support Programme (SRSP). It critically analysed participatory development in relation to micro and macro level forces, such as …
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