scholarly journals Alienation as a Problem in Heidegger’s Philosophy

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-54
Author(s):  
Nikolay Pavlov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Martin Heidegger ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Social Criticism ◽  
Cultural Criticism ◽  
Economic Dynamics ◽  
The Social ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Western Marxism ◽  
Interpretive Reading

The concept of alienation is important part of the 20th century leftwing social criticism and a key theme of Western Marxism and critical theory. It also has a significant impact on various existentialist-inspired cultural criticism. The development of the social and economic dynamics in recent decades has aroused interest for a different interpretations of this classic question. The following text is an attempt for ontological rethinking of the problem through the existential concepts of Martin Heidegger. This happens with the interpretive reading of several of those key concepts.

scholarly journals Social criticism as medical diagnosis? On the role of social pathology and crisis within critical theory

Thesis Eleven ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 155 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-126
Author(s):  
Peter J. Verovšek
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Social Criticism ◽  
Frankfurt School ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Social Pathology ◽  
Second Stage ◽  
The Social ◽  
Talking Cure

The critical theory of the Frankfurt School starts with an explanatory-diagnostic analysis of the social pathologies of the present followed by anticipatory-utopian reflection on possible treatments for these disorders. This approach draws extensively on parallels to medicine. I argue that the ideas of social pathology and crisis that pervade the methodological writings of the Frankfurt School help to explain critical theory’s contention that the object of critique identifies itself when social institutions cease to function smoothly. However, in reflecting on the role that reason and self-awareness play in the second stage of social criticism, I contend that this model is actually better conceptualized through the lens of the psychoanalyst rather than the physician. Although the first generation’s explicit commitment to psychoanalysis has dissipated in recent critical theory, faith in a rationalized ‘talking cure’ leading to greater self-awareness of existing pathologies remains at the core of the Frankfurt School.

Habermas and the critique of political economy

2020 ◽  
pp. 019145372091993
Author(s):  
J.F Dorahy
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Social Criticism ◽  
The Political ◽  
Late Capitalism ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
Present Essay ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Century Thought

In recent years, a series of key social, political and economic events has placed the critique of capitalism very much on the theoretical agenda. Responding to these developments, many have begun to express the need for a rapprochement between social criticism and the critique of political economy. The present essay represents a contribution to the recovery of the project that was once synonymous with critical theory itself via a critical engagement with the early writings of Jürgen Habermas. Not only is Habermas’ explicit engagement with the critique of political economy among the most substantial to be found within the mainstream tradition of critical theory, his early social-theoretical insights into the emergent ‘primacy of the political’ in late capitalism can be taken as representative of a number of broader trends in late-20th-century thought which sought to go beyond the premises and categories of Marx’s economic works. Simply put, no reappraisal of the relationship between critical theory and the critique of political economy can succeed, I submit, without taking seriously Habermas’s path-breaking and wide-ranging innovations.

Immanente Kritik und soziales Leben

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arvi Särkelä
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Social Criticism ◽  
Social Philosophy ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Philosophical Critique ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Immanent Critique

Based on a close reading of the works of Hegel, Dewey and Critical Theory, this book develops the concept of an immanent-critical, naturalistic social philosophy. In a first step, the author sketches a conception of immanent critique as a self-transformative social practice which consists in a dialogue between the philosopher and the everyday critics. This is followed by a cartography of the ontological presuppositions and metaphysical implications required of a successful philosophical critique of society according to Hegel and Dewey. The book develops a concept of the social which is not purely normative; the social is not separated from the rest of nature, but articulated as a peculiar process of life. Finally, social criticism is portrayed as an art that transforms this social life.

Remediating the Social: Impacts of Historical Fascism on Academic Fascism

2020 ◽  
pp. 142-162
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Video Games ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
New Media ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Smart Technology ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
The Social ◽  
Key Concepts

Remediation is the process whereby the new media (animation, virtual reality, video games, and the internet) define themselves by borrowing from and refashioning traditional media (print, film, video, and photography). This chapter explores how the remediation that is successfully deployed in forming new media contents and adds dynamics to media production can be applied to the understanding of academic fascism as a new field of research in contemporary social theory. Traditional fascism as the movement based on historic fascism (i.e., German, Italian, and Spanish) refashions academic fascism as a new manifestation of contemporary fascism; likewise, the academic fascism impacts the fascism as-we-know-it and contributes to many new devices and procedures that demand the attention of critical theory of society. The researcher as scapegoat Other, academic cleansing, privatization of knowledge, and smart technology (on the place of blood and soil) are the key concepts addressed and analyzed in this chapter.

scholarly journals Stadier på sociologiens vej. Søren Kierkegaard og samfundsvidenskaberne

2015 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 79-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bjørn Thomassen
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Soren Kierkegaard ◽  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Frankfurt School ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Theory Formation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Classical Sociology

Denne artikel skitserer Kierkegaards indflydelse på sociologien i det 20. århundrede. Med udgangspunkt i den ungarske sociolog Arpad Szakolczais metodiske begreb om sociologiens ”baggrundsfigurer”, argumenteres det, at Kierkegaard ofte har udøvet en ”skjult”, men afgørende indflydelse på en lang række tænkere inden for den klassiske sociologi, såsom Simmel, Mannheim, Weber, Adorno og Frankfurterskolen. I forlængelse heraf argumenteres det, at Foucaults sene forfatterskab udviklede sig i en intim dialog med Kierkegaards skrifter. Derfor bør Kierkegaard også anerkendes som en nøglefigur for den kritiske teori. Artiklen har som overordnet mål at klargøre Kierkegaards relevans for den sociologiske teoridannelse og den nutidige samfundsforståelse. ENGELSK ABSTRACT: Bjørn Thomassen: Stages on Sociology’s Way: Søren Kierkegaard and the Social Sciences The aim of this article is to ascertain Kierkegaard’s relevance for sociological theory formation as well as diagnostic understandings of contemporary society. The article surveys Kierkegaard’s influence on sociology in the 20th century. Drawing on the Hungarian sociologist Arpad Szakolczai’s methodological concept of ”background figures”, it argues that Kierkegaard has often exercised a ”hidden” but decisive influence on a series of thinkers in classical sociology, including Simmel, Mannheim, Weber, Adorno and the Frankfurt school. The article also argues that Foucault’s late authorship developed in an intimate dialogue with Kierkegaard’s writings. For these reasons, Kierkegaard must also be recognized as a key figure for critical theory. Keywords: Kierkegaard, Mannheim, Simmel, Weber, Foucault, critique.

Introduction The Post-Migratory Postcolonial

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Kathryn Kleppinger ◽  
Laura Reeck
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Economic Dynamics ◽  
Media Campaigns ◽  
The Social ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
French Culture ◽  
Sub Saharan

After an historical section covering the social, political, and economic dynamics shaping colonial immigration to France (from North and sub-Saharan Africa as well as from Indochina), we explain why we have chosen to develop a critical vocabulary around 'post-migratory postcolonial minorities' and to focus specifically on cultural production by writers, filmmakers, musicians, and artists whose heritage connects them to a colonial context. The introduction then considers the fundamental challenges of identification and self-identification in a context meant to be colorblind and in naming a subject of study for whom there is no consistent social vocabulary. Without dispensing with key concepts to postcolonial studies such as the centre/periphery, we assert that cross-cutting ways of understanding the cultural production at hand are needed. We connect to Françoise Lionnet and Shuh Mei-Shih’s 'minor transnationalism', which encourages transversal explorations across the local, global, national, and transnational, envisages a productive relationship between the 'major' and the 'minor', and in this case re-localizes French culture. The introduction concludes with an overview of contemporary activism (via manifestos, social media campaigns, and marches) to suggest that a range of memories and experiences contribute to and influence what it means to be French today.

Critical Theory and Transformative Learning

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ted Fleming
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Transformative Learning ◽  
Learning Theory ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Transformative Learning Theory ◽  
Transformation Theory ◽  
The Social ◽  
Adequate Understanding ◽  
Key Concepts

Mezirow relies on the critical theory of Habermas to give his theory of transformative learning rigor. Yet critiques persist and focus on whether the theory has an adequate understanding of the social dimension of learning and whether it is overly rational. This article addresses these issues and explores relevant ideas from Habermas and Honneth. Critical theory has evolved and Honneth's theory of recognition has implications for transformative learning. Following the communicative turn of Habermas, Honneth makes recognition and freedom key concepts that contribute to developing transformative learning theory. Intersubjectivity and recognition become the necessary preconditions for critical reflection, discourse, democracy and transformative learning. Freedom is also reconfigured and these ideas address the main critiques of transformation theory.

scholarly journals A INFORMAÇÃO ENTRE SENTIDO E VALIDADE: GLOSAS RECONSTRUTIVAS

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 8-39
Author(s):  
Vinícios Souza de Menezes
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Social Studies ◽  
Rational Reconstruction ◽  
Linguistic Turn ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Meeting ◽  
The Social ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Cognitive Actions

Trata-se de um encontro dialogal da virada pragmático-linguística filosofia com a informação e a teoria crítica da sociedade. O escopo de tal encontro é a busca pelas possibilidades férteis que a teoria crítica da sociedade pós-virada linguística oferece para os estudos sociais da informação, em especial, o método da reconstrução racional, cujo propósito reconstrutivo traz consigo dois conceitos fundamentais que se assemelham e coexistem com as ações prático-cognitivas da informação: sentido e validade. Versa acerca de um encontro público entre as pretensões racionais do uso público da linguagem e seu eco pelas veredas plurais dos estudos informacionais. Ao final das glosas, ficam vestígios e indícios de uma tarefa humanitária e emancipatória porvir, em seu detalhe informacional. INFORMATION BETWEEN MEANING AND VALIDITY: GLOSSES RECONSTRUCTIVEAbstractIt is a dialogical meeting of the pragmatic-linguistic turn philosophy with information and critical theory of society. The scope of this meeting is the search for fertile possibilities that the critical theory of society linguistic post-oriented provides for the social studies of information, in particular the method of rational reconstruction, the purpose of reconstructive brings with it two key concepts that are similar and coexist with the practical-cognitive actions of information: meaning and validity. Versa about a public meeting between the rational claims of the public use of language and its echo the plural paths of informational studies. At the end of glosses, are traces and evidence of a humanitarian task and future emancipatory in its informational detail.

The Constraints of Chibber’s Criticism

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 185-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benita Parry
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Cultural Criticism ◽  
Prior Work ◽  
Subaltern Studies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Uneven And Combined Development

A position joining critical theory with the Marxist critique of imperialism informs the following discussion on the perceived shortcomings of Chibber’s study in its avowed claim to disavow postcolonial theory. Chibber’s insistence on reading Subaltern Studiesaspostcolonial theory is unsustainable in that it fails to address the epistemological premises of a theory adopted and not initiated by the project. Whereas Chibber does ably contest assertions made by Subaltern Studies concerning the special conditions of India halting capitalism’s universalising drive, his concentrated but narrowly-focused and repetitive criticism disregards prior work contiguous to his own specialism as well as disciplines other than the social sciences. Thus the explanatory power of Uneven and Combined Development in understanding the internal conditions of societies conscripted into capitalism is cast aside, as are the resources of Marxist cultural criticism in writing a metanarrative of these consequences inallof their aspects: economic, social, cultural and experiential – omissions that paradoxically are to the fore in postcolonial theory.

Könyvismertetések

2007 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 407-420
Author(s):  
Magda Ritoókné Ádám ◽  
Olivér Nagybányai Nagy ◽  
Csaba Pléh ◽  
Attila Keresztes
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
History Of Psychology ◽  
Modern Psychology ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Theoretical Issues

VárinéSzilágyiIbolya: Építészprofilok, akik a 70-es, 80-as években indultak(Ritoókné Ádám Magda)      407RacsmányMihály(szerk.): Afejlődés zavarai és vizsgálómódszerei(Nagybányai Nagy Olivér)     409Új irányzatok és a bejárt út a pszichológiatörténet-írásban (Mandler, G.: Interesting times. An encounter with the 20th century; Hergenhahn, B. N.: An introduction to the history of psychology; Schultz, D. P.,Schultz, S. E.: A history of modern psychology; Greenwood, J. D.: The disappearance of the social in American social psychology;Bem, S.,LoorendeJong, H.: Theoretical issues in psychology. An introduction; Sternberg, R. J. (ed.)Unity in psychology: Possibility or pipedream?;Dalton, D. C.,Evans, R. B. (eds): __

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