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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"Frankfurt School"”.
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Rethinking critical theory between Rancière and the Frankfurt School
… either a supplement or an alternative to recent Frankfurt School theorisations of these practices, particularly in relation to struggles concerned broadly with decolonisation. Specifically, in the first chapter, I argue that deliberative theorists miss an important form of political discourse, …
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Inheriting Nietzsche: The Frankfurt School and Foucault on the Foundation of Critique
… in general as well as the import of the Frankfurt School and Foucault's normative resources specifically, both of which continue to be a source of debate in critical social theory.
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The Frankfurt School : the crisis of subjectivity and the problem of social change
… internationally in the inter-war period. For the Frankfurt School the Second World War was not only the lowest point humanity had reached at the height of technical progress, the sheer technological efficiency of the destructiveness it unleashed seemed to foreclose any impetus for optimism. Hope …
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The Ends of Utopian Thinking: Marx, Adorno, Bloch
… social orders held by the associates of the Frankfurt School. Its aim is to investigate utopian thinking as a theoretical tool of a system of thought that is oriented towards social transformation. To bring about social transformation was the explicit objective of the Frankfurt School. And …
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German literature and education for conscientization
… of critical education as inspired by the Frankfurt School of thought in their formulation of a critical theory of society. It also develops the critical educators' methodological approach to teaching, known as 'critical pedagogy'. Over and above this, this thesis also proposes a critical …
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Intersubjectivity and contemporary social theory: the everyday as critique
… in terms of, on the one hand, variants of the Frankfurt School view that it distorts or offers a false consciousness of an underlying reality, whilst on the other, the response from discourse theorists and more traditional forms of social constructionism has been philosophically conventionalist …
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Juergen Habermas and Marx: Critique of an Incipient Public Sphere
… the period in which he lived; (b) the original Frankfurt School Critical Theory (of Adorno, Horkheimer, Marcuse and others) tacitly retained a Marxist orthodoxy none the less; and, (c) Habermas's theory of communicative action and reason first faces up to and successfully overcomes the problems …
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The Death Drive Revisited: A Reexamination of Psychoanalytic Drive Theory and its Implications for Critical Theory
… theory, and in particular that of the so-called "Frankfurt school." By tracing the emergence of Freud's theory in his enigmatic Beyond the Pleasure Principle and then its development in the hands of Hans Loewald and Jacques Lacan, I aim, in the first three chapters, to articulate a drive theory …
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THE SOCIOLOGICAL CRITIQUE OF AMERICAN SOCIOLOGY, 1960-1978: ITS SHORTCOMINGS AND ITS PROMISE
… arguments put forth by principal members of the Frankfurt School and by a twentieth-century American philosopher, Elijah Jordan.</p>
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Myth, Mayhem, and Pseudo-Democracy: The Role of Political Myths in Mobilizing Nationalist Populist Movements and Political Extremists
… analysis informed by Theodor Adorno and other Frankfurt School thinkers' response to the 20th century's authoritarian demagogues, demonstrating their continued relevance to studies in nationalist extremism and democratic critique. Finally, the project concludes with policy and pedagogical …
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Freedom and Nature in McDowell and Adorno
… which we can find in the thought of the Frankfurt School critical theorist Theodor Adorno. Adorno is, I argue, able to secure the appropriate connection between reason and freedom, and thus what McDowell himself describes as a distinctively human orientation towards the world. Convinced …
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Alternative media for public pedagogy: "Chief" concerns and human agency
… at Urbana-Champaign during the 2006-2007 school year. These narratives demonstrate not only the ways alternative media help transmit dissent by distributing information to diverse populations, but also the manner they facilitate contexts that influence identity formations and strengthen …
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"Getting along in the world" : exploring future teachers' responses to children's literature through a framework of critical literacy
<p>Rooted in the work of the Frankfurt School and Paulo Freire, critical literacy transcends conventional notions of reading and writing—encouraging readers to adopt a questioning stance and to work toward changing themselves and their worlds. It also has foundations in the sociocultural theory of …
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Cultivating Agricultural Resistance: Alternative Farming as Slow Modernity
… especially Herbert Marcuse, because the Frankfurt School\'s criticism of instrumental rationality and understanding of domination functions to elucidate the societal conditions that allow for agricultural (over)production to be swept up in problematic methods in the name of efficiency. …
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Adorno, Aesthetics, and Critical Theory Beyond Europe
… of his reception by the later generations of the Frankfurt School, as well as in contemporary anglophone sociology. In contrast to such reception, I focus on two figures, the British sociologist Gillian Rose and the French philosopher Jacques Rancière. I argue that Rose and Rancière open …
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Smooth operators: architectural Deleuzism in societies of control
… as well as the work of Michel Foucault, the Frankfurt School and more contemporary critical perspectives, I contest its claims to the progressive in any sense other than that in which it serves the advancement of the marketisation of everyday life, its conditions of precarity, and its …
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Komunikacijos kampanijos viešojoje erdvėje. Atvejo analizė - ,,Lietuvos“ kino teatro išsaugojimo akcijos /
… movie theatre “Lietuva”. A student of the Frankfurt School of Social Research – which advanced a Marxist critique of western capitalism and its discontents – Habermas wrote The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere (1962). Sensing a collapse of the public sphere and therefore a …
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A critical evaluation of Kantian themes in Habermas’s critical theory
… Prior to Habermas, the critical theory of the Frankfurt School was largely Hegelian in inspiration and form. This was most evident in the commitments to dialectics and to historicity. Habermas transformed critical theory in such a manner as to take it further away from its roots in Hegel and …
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Understanding innovation in digital media artistic production in Ireland
… of technology and innovation. Influenced by the Frankfurt School of critical theory, it sets out a theoretical framework where a socially, culturally and politically grounded aesthetic theory is combined with a consideration to temporal situatedness in Ireland’s current ‘crisis’. It situates …
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Linking the Academy and Activism: From constructed subjectivities to participatory, communicative agency.
… forms of critical social theory, aligned to the Frankfurt School. Despite some acknowledged philosophical tensions, it is argued that there is a consistency of theoretical exposition whereby a line of reasoning via Habermas’s theory of communicative action, focuses on a radical subjectivity which …
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