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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"The Frankfurt School"”.
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Rethinking critical theory between Rancière and the Frankfurt School
This thesis argues that Rancière’s conception of ‘aesthetic emancipation’ is a productive and neglected way of thinking about three political practices: a politics of memory, struggles for recognition and emancipatory education. I argue it can offer either a supplement or an alternative to recent …
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Inheriting Nietzsche: The Frankfurt School and Foucault on the Foundation of Critique
My dissertation examines the theoretical ramifications that rejecting a metaphysical foundation has for providing critical and normative resources. While commentators often dismiss post-metaphysical philosophies as contradictory variants of anti-metaphysics, I demonstrate using the work of …
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The Frankfurt School : the crisis of subjectivity and the problem of social change
The crisis of subjectivity and the problem of social change is the underground history of the European Revolution of 1917-23. Its final signal in the inter-war years came with the defeat of the Republican forces in the Spanish Civil War in the years preceding the Second World War. The defeats of …
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The Ends of Utopian Thinking: Marx, Adorno, Bloch
… is concerned with utopian thinking in Critical Theory. It examines the changing conceptions of radically different 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 …
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German literature and education for conscientization
This thesis introduces the concepts 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 …
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Intersubjectivity and contemporary social theory: the everyday as critique
… culture have been couched 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 …
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THE SOCIOLOGICAL CRITIQUE OF AMERICAN SOCIOLOGY, 1960-1978: ITS SHORTCOMINGS AND ITS PROMISE
… sociology. This movement, which I am calling the sociological critique of American sociology, aimed to change predominant trends in American sociology. Basic tenets of sociological practice were called into question, such as the principle of value neutrality, an empirical methodology, and a …
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Freedom and Nature in McDowell and Adorno
… (as opposed to 'animal') orientation towards the world is characterised by a 'deep connection' between reason and freedom. In this thesis, I argue that McDowell cannot make good on this coincidence, since his Platonic conception of rationality serves to bind free reflection in advance. This is …
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Alternative media for public pedagogy: "Chief" concerns and human agency
To demonstrate how the growing influence of alternative media in civil society correlates with the rise of social movements and their influence on contemporary manifestations of resistance, this research uses critical ethnographic methodologies to document the narratives of alternative media …
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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
Contemporary methods of food production in the United States have become undeniably destructive ecologically. Two of the strongest symbols of that destruction from corporate industrial agriculture are CAFOs (Confined Animal Feeding Operations) and monoculture crop production. This thesis seeks to …
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Adorno, Aesthetics, and Critical Theory Beyond Europe
I investigate the philosophical and sociological backdrop against 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 …
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Linking the Academy and Activism: From constructed subjectivities to participatory, communicative agency.
This thesis presents a narrative that connects discussion of a number of my papers submitted for consideration of the award of PhD by published work with reflections on methods and theory within a critical sociological context. This analysis of my publications is extended by a critical engagement …
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Smooth operators: architectural Deleuzism in societies of control
This thesis is concerned with the contributions of certain tendencies in architecture to the operation of contemporary modalities of power, especially in respect of its processes of subjectivation. Focused upon the mechanisms of what the philosopher Gilles Deleuze termed a ‘society of control’, it …
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Komunikacijos kampanijos viešojoje erdvėje. Atvejo analizė - ,,Lietuvos“ kino teatro išsaugojimo akcijos /
… society, public interest, J. Habermas, 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 …
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A critical evaluation of Kantian themes in Habermas’s critical theory
… 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 is limited …
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Understanding innovation in digital media artistic production in Ireland
This thesis aims to understand processes of innovation in digital media production. Traditional discourses on digital media have tended to foreground the role of technology, its effects and its influences. This thesis argues that a more rounded understanding of digital media can be obtained through …
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Versions of America: Reading American Literature for Identity and Difference
My paper examines how American authors of the South Asian Diaspora (Indian-American or South Asian American) can be read 1) as simply American and 2) without regard to ethnicity. I develop this argument using American authors Jhumpa Lahiri, a first generation American of Bengali-Indian descent, and …
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History and ideality in Husserl, Derrida, and the Critical Theory tradition
The question of how to identify a sound normative basis for critique 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 …
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Günther Anders’ Theory of Media and Communication: Developing a Conception of Technological Domination, Alienation and Ideology with Marx beyond Marx
In this thesis, I contribute to the emergent English-language scholarship on little-known 20th century German-Austrian philosopher Günther Anders (1902-1992), whose work is unique for its critical focus on technology. Anders studied under Husserl and Heidegger and was Hannah Arendt’s first husband. …
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