Towards a Sociology of Critique
... should be but what it can be, and clearly, critique can be a great many things. Very often, critique has been employed in the course of great emancipatory movements such as those for civil rights or humane working conditions or against violence, domination and exploitation. Yet, there are more ambiv ...
... should be but what it can be, and clearly, critique can be a great many things. Very often, critique has been employed in the course of great emancipatory movements such as those for civil rights or humane working conditions or against violence, domination and exploitation. Yet, there are more ambiv ...
Gandhi as a Postmodern Thinker
... was for him the village communities where a vast majority of Indians still live today. In the villages Gandhi found people who “overflowed with faith” and “whose wisdom was boundless.”5 Because of his confidence in these people, he called for a dismantling of centralized state authority and a return ...
... was for him the village communities where a vast majority of Indians still live today. In the villages Gandhi found people who “overflowed with faith” and “whose wisdom was boundless.”5 Because of his confidence in these people, he called for a dismantling of centralized state authority and a return ...
The critique of methodological nationalism: Theory and history
... contemporary social sciences. Methodological nationalism is generally recognized as a sin, but we all become unintended sinners the very second we try to grasp the nationstate’s fundamental features and the problematic nature of its position in modernity.2 The paradox of the current debate on method ...
... contemporary social sciences. Methodological nationalism is generally recognized as a sin, but we all become unintended sinners the very second we try to grasp the nationstate’s fundamental features and the problematic nature of its position in modernity.2 The paradox of the current debate on method ...
Aalborg Universitet From Modern Utopia to Liquid Modern Anti-Utopia? Jacobsen, Michael Hviid
... article will seek to demonstrate, is not overtly expressed but runs like an undercurrent throughout ...
... article will seek to demonstrate, is not overtly expressed but runs like an undercurrent throughout ...
Aalborg Universitet From Modern Utopia to Liquid - VBN
... article will seek to demonstrate, is not overtly expressed but runs like an undercurrent throughout ...
... article will seek to demonstrate, is not overtly expressed but runs like an undercurrent throughout ...
Revisiting Cultural Relativism: Old Prospects for a
... through human universals and others—hopefully the majority of anthropologists—who are committed to the relativity of cultural beliefs and social practices without abandoning social critique. The belief in human universals is by no means new and surely is not restricted to anthropologists past and pr ...
... through human universals and others—hopefully the majority of anthropologists—who are committed to the relativity of cultural beliefs and social practices without abandoning social critique. The belief in human universals is by no means new and surely is not restricted to anthropologists past and pr ...
Positivism, Postmodernism, or Critical Theory? A Case Study of
... However, such an interpretation of Marxian critique as pure immanent critique has historically resulted in deterministic interpretations of history that have been historically falsified. Therefore it has been stressed that Marxian critique also contains transcendental elements (e.g. Lukes 1985, Saye ...
... However, such an interpretation of Marxian critique as pure immanent critique has historically resulted in deterministic interpretations of history that have been historically falsified. Therefore it has been stressed that Marxian critique also contains transcendental elements (e.g. Lukes 1985, Saye ...
Animism Volume I Edited by Anselm Franke
... “back” into animism and an archaic past. The modern idea of animism must appear then as a necessary result springing from the separation between nature and culture, as a category that allowed the moderns to name those who did not make the same distinction, those who assigned social roles to non-huma ...
... “back” into animism and an archaic past. The modern idea of animism must appear then as a necessary result springing from the separation between nature and culture, as a category that allowed the moderns to name those who did not make the same distinction, those who assigned social roles to non-huma ...
on modernity
... economic activity and labor relations cannot help but transform social relations throughout man’s life. One ramification of alienation in the economic sphere is a general supersedure of personal uniqueness by impersonality (non-personality, or de-humanization). Alienation in Marx’s work needs to be u ...
... economic activity and labor relations cannot help but transform social relations throughout man’s life. One ramification of alienation in the economic sphere is a general supersedure of personal uniqueness by impersonality (non-personality, or de-humanization). Alienation in Marx’s work needs to be u ...
MODERNISM/
... 'literature' is questioned by the post-structuralist strain in theory. However, the uncertainties and obscurities of contemporary theories appear much less worrying when we see what the best critics have been able to do with them in practice. This series aims to disseminate the best of recent vi Vii ...
... 'literature' is questioned by the post-structuralist strain in theory. However, the uncertainties and obscurities of contemporary theories appear much less worrying when we see what the best critics have been able to do with them in practice. This series aims to disseminate the best of recent vi Vii ...
Theorizing Modernity and Technology
... theories, one finds theories of postmodernity, that hypothesize that we have already left (late) modernity and have recently entered a new postmodern era (e.g., Jameson, 1991; Harvey, 1989). Besides theories of particular eras in modernity, there are many studies of major sociocultural, technologica ...
... theories, one finds theories of postmodernity, that hypothesize that we have already left (late) modernity and have recently entered a new postmodern era (e.g., Jameson, 1991; Harvey, 1989). Besides theories of particular eras in modernity, there are many studies of major sociocultural, technologica ...
Walter D. Mignolo The Enduring Enchantment: (Or the Epistemic
... invention but rather the geopolitical order and the historical consequences of such an invention. During the Renaissance the distinction between ‘‘les ancients et les moderns’’ was established in European history itself. ‘‘Les ancients’’ referred to Europe’s own past, while the ‘‘primitives’’ belong ...
... invention but rather the geopolitical order and the historical consequences of such an invention. During the Renaissance the distinction between ‘‘les ancients et les moderns’’ was established in European history itself. ‘‘Les ancients’’ referred to Europe’s own past, while the ‘‘primitives’’ belong ...
Postmodern Anth-the paper - Dallas Baptist University
... rationalization, socio-economic differentiation, urbanization, and industrialization. In this context, the dominant intellectual project is that which we associate with the Enlightenment: the elaboration of the principles of an allegedly universal rationality. In the form of positivist social scienc ...
... rationalization, socio-economic differentiation, urbanization, and industrialization. In this context, the dominant intellectual project is that which we associate with the Enlightenment: the elaboration of the principles of an allegedly universal rationality. In the form of positivist social scienc ...
UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH
... populations. Meanwhile, in the developed world, there has been a decline in traditional industries and a shift toward the service sector (i.e. economies based on finance and leisure). This has heralded theories of ‘post-industrialism’ and the notion of an ‘information society’ which will be critical ...
... populations. Meanwhile, in the developed world, there has been a decline in traditional industries and a shift toward the service sector (i.e. economies based on finance and leisure). This has heralded theories of ‘post-industrialism’ and the notion of an ‘information society’ which will be critical ...
Title Ocularcentrism and its Others: A Framework for Metatheoretical
... metaphor’s central position in their own texts. This trajectory is referred to as ocularcentrism extended. The second trajectory seeks to excoriate the root ocular metaphor. Ocularcentrism displaced traces the metaphoric redescriptions and displacements that have been effected through this approach. ...
... metaphor’s central position in their own texts. This trajectory is referred to as ocularcentrism extended. The second trajectory seeks to excoriate the root ocular metaphor. Ocularcentrism displaced traces the metaphoric redescriptions and displacements that have been effected through this approach. ...
Jean Baudrillard
... crucial feature of modernity - an image of its contradictions. But at the interior of this time, which is indefinite, and no longer knows any eternity, one thing distinguishes modernity : it always wants to be 'contemporary,' i.e ., it seeks global simultaneity. After first privileging the dimension ...
... crucial feature of modernity - an image of its contradictions. But at the interior of this time, which is indefinite, and no longer knows any eternity, one thing distinguishes modernity : it always wants to be 'contemporary,' i.e ., it seeks global simultaneity. After first privileging the dimension ...
Aalborg Universitet Essence and Diversity in Gender Research Ahmed, Durre
... for non-western perspectives, the fact remains that their legitimacy has been 'conferred' by West. And within the movement as a whole, it is the work of Derrida, Foucault and other French thinkers such as Kristeva, which forms the philosophical bedrock upon which many third world scholars today rest ...
... for non-western perspectives, the fact remains that their legitimacy has been 'conferred' by West. And within the movement as a whole, it is the work of Derrida, Foucault and other French thinkers such as Kristeva, which forms the philosophical bedrock upon which many third world scholars today rest ...
lastjudg
... optimistic one. History has reached its end because there has never been a history, but only ever the “eternal return” of the same, as Nietzsche maintained.11 Without a doubt, Hegel did much to ensure that his philosophy of history can be read as an ideology of progress, but such an interpretation i ...
... optimistic one. History has reached its end because there has never been a history, but only ever the “eternal return” of the same, as Nietzsche maintained.11 Without a doubt, Hegel did much to ensure that his philosophy of history can be read as an ideology of progress, but such an interpretation i ...
Week Nine: Colonial Modernity
... Korea,” New Literary History (Winter 1998), pp. 121-134 Kyeong-Hee Choi, “Neither Colonial nor National: The Making of the ‘New Woman’ in Pak Wanso’s ; Mother Stake 1’” in Colonial Modernity in Korea, 221-247. June j. h. Lee, “Discourse of Illness, Meanings of Modernity: A Gendered Construction of S ...
... Korea,” New Literary History (Winter 1998), pp. 121-134 Kyeong-Hee Choi, “Neither Colonial nor National: The Making of the ‘New Woman’ in Pak Wanso’s ; Mother Stake 1’” in Colonial Modernity in Korea, 221-247. June j. h. Lee, “Discourse of Illness, Meanings of Modernity: A Gendered Construction of S ...
Musings on the Emptiness and Dreariness of Postmodern Critique
... Actually, his position and that of the Descutner and Burnier essay are united in Jean-François Lyotard. Lyotard's The Postmodern Condition was translated into English in 1984 and undoubtedly accelerated talk of poststructuralism and the postmodern condition. Lyotard's rewriting of modernist science ...
... Actually, his position and that of the Descutner and Burnier essay are united in Jean-François Lyotard. Lyotard's The Postmodern Condition was translated into English in 1984 and undoubtedly accelerated talk of poststructuralism and the postmodern condition. Lyotard's rewriting of modernist science ...
Hello, I`m Ron Strickland
... rationalism and scientific thinking as the positive expression of human excellence and human achievement. In this way, it can be said that Enlightenment thinkers exalted the “human” to a level above “God”; they formulated a universal essence of “humanity” as a kind of absolute truth. NEXT SLIDE Mode ...
... rationalism and scientific thinking as the positive expression of human excellence and human achievement. In this way, it can be said that Enlightenment thinkers exalted the “human” to a level above “God”; they formulated a universal essence of “humanity” as a kind of absolute truth. NEXT SLIDE Mode ...
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... begin with an incredulity toward rapid developments in communigrand narratives of theory and of cations and information technology, genetic engineering, biotechnology, history. satellites, etc. Be that as it may, it is useful to distinguish postmodern sensibility On the other hand, when we speak of ...
... begin with an incredulity toward rapid developments in communigrand narratives of theory and of cations and information technology, genetic engineering, biotechnology, history. satellites, etc. Be that as it may, it is useful to distinguish postmodern sensibility On the other hand, when we speak of ...
Globalisation, modernity and postmodernity
... Identify 4 global brands that you have seen advertised in this country if possible seen in other countries. ...
... Identify 4 global brands that you have seen advertised in this country if possible seen in other countries. ...
Chapter 14 - Amazon Web Services
... increasingly meaningless as flows of products and people cross borders in unprecedented numbers. Finally, there is increasing downward mobility, as former members of a middle class find themselves consigned to insecure, part-time employment with few or no benefits. ...
... increasingly meaningless as flows of products and people cross borders in unprecedented numbers. Finally, there is increasing downward mobility, as former members of a middle class find themselves consigned to insecure, part-time employment with few or no benefits. ...