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Journal articles on the topic "Radical critical inquiry"
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Keating, James F. "Aquinas and Radical Orthodoxy: A Critical Inquiry by Paul DeHart." Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review 79, no. 1 (2015): 155–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tho.2015.0024.
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Hiles, David. "Qualitative inquiry, mixed methods and the logic of scientific inquiry." QMiP Bulletin 1, no. 17 (2014): 49–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.53841/bpsqmip.2014.1.17.49.
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This paper is concerned with exploring what is needed in making progress towards establishing a mature methodology for human and social inquiry. The approach that is proposed takes the somewhat radical position which sees the distinction between qualitative and quantitative methodologies as little more than a red herring. When focus is placed upon the type of data being collected, rather than on the research design, the result is merely a polarization of the different methodological approaches, deflecting away from what is the underlying critical issue – the logic of inquiry. The crucial insight here is that at least three fundamentally different logics of inquiry can be distinguished: (i) theory–driven; (ii) data–driven; and (iii) explanation–driven, each with its own inherent patterns of logical reasoning. These different logics of inquiry have radical implications for research design, and in particular, the phrasing of the research question(s). This in turn has major implications for the clarification of what is really at stake in the confrontation between qualitative and quantitative, with respect to paradigm assumptions, formulating the research question, sampling, data collection, analysis, and critical evaluation, etc. Moreover, the ongoing debate surrounding the issue of mixed method design can be rey–focussed on how contrasting logics of inquiry can come to be combined into one research programme. It needs to be acknowledged that mixed methods probably has a surprisingly long history, and is more inherent to the scientific method than is commonly acknowledged. By facing these issues, the pay–off is a more authentic picture of what ‘the scientific method’ might actually entail for psychology.
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Mackenzie, Jon. "Aquinas and Radical Orthodoxy: A Critical Inquiry - By Paul J. DeHart." International Journal of Systematic Theology 16, no. 4 (September 25, 2014): 483–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2400.2014.00665.x.
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Cohen, Elliot. "Transpersonal psychology as critical/radical psychology." Transpersonal Psychology Review 24, no. 1 (2022): 24–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.53841/bpstran.2022.24.1.24.
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Editor’s note: this article is a summary of the Keynote at the Section Annual Conference Transpersonal Activism on 12 September 2021.Despite its designation as the ‘Fourth Force,’ Transpersonal Psychology often occupies a peripheral and precarious place within mainstream Psychological approaches. Its historic focus on mystical/spiritual and non-ordinary states of consciousness, coupled with its continued emphasis on subjective and experiential inquiry, have often led to it being excluded in favour of more materialist, positivistic paradigms that currently dominate the discipline. Rather than attempt to simply adapt and assimilate into more mainstream, conventional forms of Psychology, Transpersonal Psychology has a unique opportunity to actively embrace its otherness and outsider status; to pursue authentic interdisciplinary encounters and pioneer more inclusive and radical approaches to research methods. In contemporary Humanistic and Engaged expressions of Eastern Wisdom Traditions (specifically Hinduism, Buddhism and Daoism) one may observe the increasing emphasis on ecological awareness, recovery of the Divine Feminine and more spiritually informed approaches to social justice. To avoid accusations of remoteness, solipsism and spiritual bypassing, Transpersonal Psychologists also need to better attend and creatively respond to prevailing political and socioeconomic conditions. In this keynote I will demonstrate how Transpersonal Psychology has at its heart, always constituted a critical/radical approach to Psychology and still retains the capacity to reinvigorate, re-enchant, transform and transcend.
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Hoffman, Julie Wasmund, and Jennifer L. Martin. "Critical Social Justice Inquiry Circles: Using Counter-Story as a Counter-Hegemonic Project." Qualitative Inquiry 26, no. 6 (July 7, 2019): 687–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077800419859028.
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This article presents a qualitative dialogic poetic response in the form of a critical social justice inquiry circle and a critical reading of Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds as poetry and as an intentional gesture of listening as activism. This discourse is one of resistance to the acritical/apolitical nature of schooling and to prepare hegemonic/White educators to become culturally responsive (ala Milner) and to devise a new critical methodology, we embark on this radical proposition. Our use of critical social justice inquiry circles using poetic dialogue is inspired by Denzin’s conception of Critical Performance Pedagogy.
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White, Carolyne J., Fausta Schiavone, Naomi Campbell, and Daisha Carson. "Bearing Witness to Ontological Inquiry: Being Activists for Radical Democracy." Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies 20, no. 6 (March 22, 2020): 565–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1532708620912804.
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The authors write a queered autoethnographic text that illuminates a course encounter with ontological inquiry to prepare radically democratic citizen-leaders and activist educators within the constraints of the corporatized neoliberal university. They seek to touch, move, and inspire readers to experiment with this counterintuitive form of learning as a critical pathway toward the realization of John Dewey’s moral meaning of democracy and the institutions of the society foster the all-around growth of all participants.
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Lasczik, Alexandra, David Rousell, and Amy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles. "Walking as a radical and critical art of inquiry: Embodiment, place and entanglement." International Journal of Education Through Art 17, no. 1 (March 1, 2021): 3–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/eta_00047_2.
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Farkas, Johan, Jannick Schou, and Christina Neumayer. "Cloaked Facebook pages: Exploring fake Islamist propaganda in social media." New Media & Society 20, no. 5 (May 19, 2017): 1850–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461444817707759.
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This research analyses cloaked Facebook pages that are created to spread political propaganda by cloaking a user profile and imitating the identity of a political opponent in order to spark hateful and aggressive reactions. This inquiry is pursued through a multi-sited online ethnographic case study of Danish Facebook pages disguised as radical Islamist pages, which provoked racist and anti-Muslim reactions as well as negative sentiments towards refugees and immigrants in Denmark in general. Drawing on Jessie Daniels’ critical insights into cloaked websites, this research furthermore analyses the epistemological, methodological and conceptual challenges of online propaganda. It enhances our understanding of disinformation and propaganda in an increasingly interactive social media environment and contributes to a critical inquiry into social media and subversive politics.
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Winter, Rainer. "The Idea of Equality and Qualitative Inquiry." Qualitative Inquiry 23, no. 1 (July 9, 2016): 27–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077800416657102.
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With his path-breaking The Qualitative Manifesto. A Call to Arms (2010), Norman Denzin calls for qualitative inquiry to be carried out with the aim of contributing to the empowerment of subjects involved in the research. He pleads passionately and vehemently in favor of a research process that is led by the ideal of social justice. My contribution wants to plead for making radical equality between researchers and research subjects a core element of qualitative inquiries as well. For this purpose, I will turn to the work of the French philosopher Jacques Rancière, who has been largely ignored in qualitative inquiry. His work, though, is of central importance for critical qualitative research. The idea of equality opens up a new and more profound understanding of politics that would allow us to specify the political meaning of qualitative studies in late capitalism more accurately.
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Drew, Valerie, Mark Priestley, and Maureen K. Michael. "Curriculum development through critical collaborative professional enquiry." Journal of Professional Capital and Community 1, no. 1 (January 11, 2016): 92–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jpcc-09-2015-0006.
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Purpose – In recent years, there has been considerable interest within education policy in collaborative professional enquiry/inquiry methodologies, both as an alternative to top-down implementation of change and for the purpose of fostering educational improvement. However, researchers have been critical of this approach, pointing to various concerns: these include the risk of reducing a developmental methodology to an instrumental means for delivering policy, as well as issues around sustainability of practices. The purpose of this paper is to describe a Scottish university/local authority partnership, which developed an approach entitled Critical Collaborative Professional Enquiry, designed to address some of these concerns. The paper also reports on empirical outcomes related to the partnership project. Design/methodology/approach – This interpretivist study generated qualitative data from multiple sources, utilising a range of methods including semi-structured interviews with teachers and school leaders, evaluation surveys and analysis of artefacts developed during the inquiry phases of the project. Findings – This programme exerted a powerful effect on the teachers who participated. The research suggests that teachers developed better understandings of the curriculum, and of curriculum development processes. There is evidence of innovation in pedagogy, some sustained and radical in nature, and further evidence of changes to the cultures of the participating schools, for example, a shift towards more democratic ways of working. Originality/value – This paper reports upon an original approach to curriculum development, with considerable potential to transform the ways in which schools approach innovation.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Radical critical inquiry"
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Craig, Richard. "Kindness as a Paradigm for Governance." Thesis, 2022. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/43932/.
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This Masters research thesis is a pragmatic critical inquiry that will investigate kindness and
collectivism as social transformation initiatives identified within a governance paradigm, and
introduced internationally in The New Zealand Statement to the 73rd Session of the United Nations
General Assembly (2018) and further demonstrated in her speech at the Christchurch
Remembrance Service (2019) by New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.
The pragmatic critical inquiry into these initiatives will be contextualised and synthetically
analysed against a theoretical framework assembled for this thesis comprising of the cultural and
political theory of Hannah Arendt, Tom Clark, John Ralston Saul, and Iris Marion Young.
Additional analysis will also consider Opinion and Op-ed from a selection of print media
publications, examining a broader intersubjective response to both The New Zealand Statement
and Ardern’s leadership actions in the wake of the Christchurch attack.
The inquiry will look for connections that can be found, and meaning that can be
revealed, as a result of a synthetic analysis of: the theoretical framework of cultural and political
theory; Ardern’s speeches; and, the Opinion and Op-ed pieces. It will also consider if and how
how this synthesis of materials may in turn augment the theoretical framework.
At the heart of this inquiry is the question, is Ardern providing a template and paradigm for
governance and social transformation?
Books on the topic "Radical critical inquiry"
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DeHart, Paul. Aquinas and Radical Orthodoxy: A Critical Inquiry. Taylor & Francis Group, 2012.
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DeHart, Paul. Aquinas and Radical Orthodoxy: A Critical Inquiry. Taylor & Francis Group, 2012.
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DeHart, Paul. Aquinas and Radical Orthodoxy: A Critical Inquiry. Taylor & Francis Group, 2012.
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DeHart, Paul. Aquinas and Radical Orthodoxy: A Critical Inquiry. Taylor & Francis Group, 2012.
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Rae, Gavin. Critiquing Sovereign Violence. Edinburgh University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474445283.001.0001.
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Sovereign violence is a dominant issue in contemporary political theory and has attracted much attention from proponents of critical theory, biopolitics, post-structuralism, and deconstruction. While heterogeneous, these commentators are united in rejecting the classic-juridical conception that holds sovereignty to be indivisible and orientated towards the establishment and maintenance of juridical order. This book argues that this rejection has been based on three distinct logics, termed the radical-juridical perspective, the biopolitical one, and the bio-juridical. The first, outlined through chapters on Benjamin, Schmitt, Arendt, and Deleuze and Guattari, offers a number of increasingly radical critiques of the classic-juridical conception of sovereignty, but continues to focus the inquiry around the creation/preservation/disruption of the juridical order. The second biopolitical logic, outlined through chapters on Foucault and Agamben, goes further by undermining the primacy that the classic and radical-juridical models give to law. Instead, sovereign violence is held to be concerned with the regulation of life, with this occurring through exclusion from law. The first two critical logics do, however, set up a binary opposition between law and life: the former affirming the sovereign’s connection to the former, the latter reversing this to claim that it primarily refers to the latter. The third model—called the bio-juridical and developed from Jacques Derrida’s late work on the death penalty—is held to overcome this by developing a compatibilist understanding in which sovereign violence is placed between law and life, simultaneously creating and regulating each through the other.
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Schlarb, Damien B. Melville's Wisdom. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197585566.001.0001.
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This book explores the manner in which Herman Melville responds to the spiritual crisis of modernity by using the language of the biblical Old Testament wisdom books to moderate contemporary discourses on religion, skepticism, and literature. Melville’s work is an example of how romantic literature fills the interpretive lacuna left by contemporary theology. This book argues that attending to Melville’s engagement with the wisdom books (Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes) can help us understand a paradox at the heart of American modernity: the simultaneous displacement and affirmation of biblical language and religious culture. In wisdom, which addresses questions of theology, radical skepticism, and the nature of evil, Melville finds an ethos of critical inquiry that allows him to embrace the acumen of modern analytical techniques such as higher biblical criticism, while salvaging simultaneously the spiritual authority of biblical language. Wisdom for Melville constitutes both object and analytical framework in this balancing act. Melville’s Wisdom joins other works of postsecular literary studies in challenging its own discipline’s constitutive secularization narrative by rethinking modern, putatively secular cultural formations in terms of their reciprocity with religious concepts and texts. The book foregrounds Melville’s sustained, career-spanning concern with biblical wisdom, its formal properties, and its knowledge-creating potential. By excavating this project from Melville’s oeuvre, Melville’s Wisdom shows how he seeks to avoid the spiritually corrosive effects of suspicious reading while celebrating truth-seeking over subversive iniquity.
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Gartzke, Erik A., and Paul Poast. Empirically Assessing the Bargaining Theory of War: Potential and Challenges. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.274.
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What explains war? The so-called bargaining approach has evolved quickly in the past two decades, opening up important new possibilities and raising fundamental challenges to previous conventional thinking about the origins of political violence. Bargaining is intended to explain the causes of conflict on many levels, from interpersonal to international. War is not the product of any of a number of variables creating opportunity or willingness, but instead is caused by whatever factors prevent competitors from negotiating the settlements that result from fighting. Conflict is thus a bargaining failure, a socially inferior outcome, but also a determined choice.Embraced by a growing number of scholars, the bargaining perspective rapidly created a new consensus in some circles. Bargaining theory is radical in relocating at least some of the causes of conflict away from material, cultural, political, or psychological factors and replacing them with states of knowledge about these same material or ideational factors. Approaching conflict as a bargaining failure—produced by uncertainty and incentives to misrepresent, credible commitment problems, or issue indivisibility—is the “state of the art” in the study of conflict.At the same time, bargaining theories remain largely untested in any systematic sense: theory has moved far ahead of empirics. The bargaining perspective has been favored largely because of compelling logic rather than empirical validity. Despite the bargaining analogy’s wide-ranging influence (or perhaps because of this influence), scholars have largely failed to subject the key causal mechanisms of bargaining theory to systematic empirical investigation. Further progress for bargaining theory, both among adherents and in the larger research community, depends on empirical tests of both core claims and new theoretical implications of the bargaining approach.The limited amount of systematic empirical research on bargaining theories of conflict is by no means entirely accident or the product of lethargy on the part of the scholarly community. Tests of theories that involve intangible factors like states of belief or perception are difficult to pursue. How does one measure uncertainty? What does learning look like in the midst of a war? When is indivisibility or commitment a problem, and when can it be resolved through other measures, such as ancillary bargains? The challenge before researchers, however, is to surmount these obstacles. To the degree that progress in science is empirical, bargaining theory needs testing.As should be clear, the dearth of empirical tests of bargaining approaches to the study of conflict leaves important questions unanswered. Is it true, for example, as bargaining theory suggests, that uncertainty leads to the possibility of war? If so, how much uncertainty is required and in what contexts? Which types of uncertainty are most pernicious (and which are perhaps relatively benign)? Under what circumstances are the effects of uncertainty greatest and where are they least critical? Empirical investigation of the bargaining model can provide essential guidance to theoretical work on conflict by identifying insights that can offer intellectual purchase and by highlighting areas of inquiry that are likely to be empirical dead ends. More broadly, the impact of bargaining theory on the study and practice of international relations rests to a substantial degree on the success of efforts to substantiate the perspective empirically.
Book chapters on the topic "Radical critical inquiry"
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Ward, Jane. "Radical Experiments Involving Innocent Children: Locating Parenthood in Queer Utopia." In A Critical Inquiry into Queer Utopias, 231–44. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137311979_10.
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Malatino, Hilary. "Utopian Pragmatics: Bash Back! and the Temporality of Radical Queer Action." In A Critical Inquiry into Queer Utopias, 205–27. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137311979_9.
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Holzhey, Christoph F. E. "Blurb." In Cultural Inquiry, 273. Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.37050/ci-08_001.
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Multistable figures offer an intriguing model for arbitrating conflicting positions. Moving back and forth between the different aspects under which something can be seen, one recognizes that mutually contradictory descriptions can be equally valid and that disputes over the correct account can be resolved without dissolving differences or establishing a higher synthesis. Yet, the experience of a gestalt switch also offers a model for radical conversions and revolutions – that is, for irreversible leaps to incommensurable alternatives foiling ideals of rational choice while providing the possibility and necessity of decision. Accentuating the temporal dimensions of multistable figures, this multidisciplinary volume illuminates the critical potentials and limits of multistability as a complex figure of thought.
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Holzhey, Christoph F. E. "Introduction." In Cultural Inquiry, 07–21. Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.37050/ci-08_01.
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Multistable figures offer an intriguing model for arbitrating conflicting positions. Moving back and forth between the different aspects under which something can be seen, one recognizes that mutually contradictory descriptions can be equally valid and that disputes over the correct account can be resolved without dissolving differences or establishing a higher synthesis. Yet, the experience of a gestalt switch also offers a model for radical conversions and revolutions – that is, for irreversible leaps to incommensurable alternatives foiling ideals of rational choice while providing the possibility and necessity of decision. Accentuating the temporal dimensions of multistable figures, this multidisciplinary volume illuminates the critical potentials and limits of multistability as a complex figure of thought.
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Balducci, Alessandro. "“Inquiry and Change: The Troubled Attempt to Understand and Shape Society”, 1990. The Radical Contribution of Charles E. Lindblom’s Self-Guiding Society and Probing Volition." In Critical Planning and Design, 149–56. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93107-0_13.
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Maxwell, Jason. "Between Standardization and Serialization: Kenneth Burke, Fredric Jameson, and Radical Criticism in the Post-Fordist Era." In The Two Cultures of English, 60–91. Fordham University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823282463.003.0003.
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This chapter considers the odd status of literary and rhetorical critic Kenneth Burke within English Studies. It does so by examining a debate between Burke and Fredric Jameson that occurred in the late 1970s in the journal Critical Inquiry; careful attention to the nuances of their exchange reveals why Burke has come to occupy such a central role within the discourse of rhetorical theory but has been largely overlooked within literary and critical theory. Although Burke and Jameson share many similarities concerning methodology and a host of related issues, they ultimately split on the structural characteristics of late capitalism. Whereas Burke asserts that capitalism operates by producing conformity and standardization, Jameson argues that capitalism must be understood as a much more dynamic system. Their differences on this matter illuminate a number of underlying tensions within theoretical work produced in the humanities today.
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Bošković, Aleksandar. "Alone in the Cinemascope." In Experimental Cinemas in State-Socialist Eastern Europe. Nieuwe Prinsengracht 89 1018 VR Amsterdam Nederland: Amsterdam University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462982994_ch07.
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This chapter focuses on Yugoslav filmmaker Slobodan Šijan’s production of the Film Leaflet (1976–1979), a single-page, double-sided fanzine exemplifying paracinematic practices that expanded cinematic experimentation beyond the movie screen. While relatively marginal in Yugoslav experimental, amateur film culture, the work expresses key aspects of this creative milieu and Yugoslav culture more broadly, forged in a hybrid environment where official and alternative cultures coalesced, and where Socialist ideology coexisted with an appreciation of American popular media. Šijan’s cine-zine critically engaged these scenes and the practices of cinema-going and programming as a self-referential hypertext of radical amateurism, presenting a critical inquiry into cultural reproduction. This study considers both the period’s overall culture and the film cultural references that surface in the Film Leaflet.
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Schlarb, Damien B. "Conclusion." In Melville's Wisdom, 179–86. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197585566.003.0005.
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This chapter steps back from the critical discussions of the previous chapters to contemplate the bigger picture of Melville’s wisdom project as a response to the condition of modernity. It intersperses brief excursions on Clarel and “The Apple-Tree Table” to show that Melville deemed the spiritual crisis of his day an inescapable conflict, but one that could be weathered while holding on to at least some kind of spiritual belief. Wisdom represented for Melville the best strategic guide to surviving this crisis, and the wisdom books, this chapter contends, helped Melville engage the Bible constructively rather than antagonistically. Literature for Melville is a space in which religious doubt, critical inquiry, and biblical language and philosophy may be juxtaposed, contemplated, and moderated, so as to avoid radical suspicion and skepticism.
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Nayyar, Deepak. "Prologue." In Resurgent Asia, 1–6. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198849513.003.0010.
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Gunnar Myrdal published his magnum opus, Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations, in 1968. At the time, I was a graduate student in economics at Oxford. It was a subject of conversation among students outside the classroom. It was brought up in questions at seminars about development. It led to animated discussion in the lively common room at Balliol College. It was also written about. The book made a splash. I walked across to Blackwell’s next door and bought the three volumes, at twenty-five shillings (GB£1.25) each, for what was then a princely sum. And I read it, all 2300 pages, over the next six months. The primary motivation was that so much of the book was about India. But, in late 1968, after a tumultuous summer in Europe, it was also fashionable to be unfashionable in economics. Myrdal was critical of mainstream economics. It also coincided with the beginnings of change in my own thinking about development. Orthodox trade theory, which I had been immersed in, was no longer an exciting prospect. I had decided to work on India for my doctoral dissertation. Paul Streeten, who had had just returned to Oxford, agreed to supervise my research. Streeten and Myrdal were good friends who had worked closely with each other. It was sheer coincidence that I met Gunnar Myrdal at dinner in Paul Streeten’s home. To be honest, I was overawed, for Myrdal had a reputation of being totally absorbed in his work, which was his life. But he was relaxed while chatting over dinner, to my relief not about India. He propounded a counter-intuitive thesis that one should expect young people to be conservative and to become more radical as they grow older. My intuitive belief, then, was the exact opposite. It was difficult to resist the temptation of getting into an argument. Fortunately, the wit and charm of Thomas Balogh, among the guests at dinner, came to my rescue....
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Stawarska, Beata. "The Self, the Other, the Self as An/other." In The Paideia Archive: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, 112–23. Philosophy Documentation Center, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/wcp20-paideia199816325.
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This article critically examines the way in which Sartre dealt with the problem of alterity in his early works, proposing that Sartre presented an unsatisfactory account of alterity in his first philosophical work entitled The Transcendence of the Ego, though his study of imagination offers ample opportunities to re-examine the question of alterity and to arrive at a more adequate formulation of the way in which the self relates to the other. I therefore begin by demonstrating that the Transcendence of the Ego perpetuates the Cartesian tradition where the self is defined primarily in terms of thinking-that is, self-consciousness and immanence. Next, I turn to the Sartrean Psychology of Imagination to find another way of conceptualizing the problem. I inquire into his general theory of the imaginary consciousness defined as a 'picture consciousness' and argue that it reduces the alterity of the imaginary object to sheer absence. As such, the theory of imagination does not allow us to bring the fundamental character of alterity to light. Still, we uncover a more adequate way of dealing with alterity in the context of the imaginary life. I show that the notion of the 'picture itself' allows us to conceptualize alterity as the radical withdrawal of the other. Finally, I make evident that the imaginary subject is necessarily divided between itself and itself as another and due to that internal split, can grasp the alterity of another person.
Conference papers on the topic "Radical critical inquiry"
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Valentim, Juliana. "Participatory Futures Imaginations." In LINK 2021. Tuwhera Open Access, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/link2021.v2i1.111.
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The contemporary conjuncture of widespread ecological and social crises summons critical thinking about significant cultural changes in digital media design. The selection and classification practices that marked the history of slavery and colonization now rely on all types of nanotechnologies. On behalf of the future, bodies became expanded territory to sovereign intervention, where the role of contemporary powers enable extraction and mining of material, plumbed from the most intimate sphere of the self. This logic requires the state of exception to become the norm, so that the crisis is the digital media’s critical difference: they cut through the constant stream of information, differentiating the temporally valuable from the mundane, offering users a taste of real-time responsibility and empowerment. Thereby, this research aims to explore the dynamic transformations of the mediatic environment and their impacts on the fundamental relationships of human beings with the world, the self, and objects. It unfolds concerns around neocolonial assaults on human agency and autonomy that resonate from structuring patterns emerging from the digital infrastructure of neoliberalism and the relationships of human beings with the world. It disputes the imaginaries, representational regimes, and the possibilities of reality perceptions with universal, patriarchal, and extractive representations. This research also seeks alternative forms of media education and political resistance through its collaborative practice, pursuing an attentive and open-ended inquiry into the possibilities latent for designing new communication and information tools within lived material contexts: How might we represent invisible media infrastructures? How to produce knowledge about this space and present it publicly? How can these representations be politically mobilized as ecological and social arguments to establish a public debate? How can artistic sensibilities, aesthetics and the visual field influence what is thought of this frontier space? Finally, how can art, play and research intervene and participate? For this, the project involves participatory methods to create spaces for dialogue between different epistemologies, questioning the forms of ethical and creative reasoning in the planetary media and communication systems; for fostering the techno-politics imagination through playful, participatory futures and transition design frameworks as an ethical praxis of world-making; and for a reconceptualization of autonomy as an expression of radical interdependence between body, spaces, and materiality. The research aims to provide a framework for designing media tools, which incorporates core design principles and guidelines of agency and collective autonomy. It also engages with the transnational conversation on design, a contribution that stems from recent Latin American epistemic and political experiences and struggles, and the wider debate around alternative forms of restoring communal bonds, conquering public discussion spaces, and techno-political resistances through collaborative research practices and participatory methods.