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Denunciation/Annunciation: The Radical Methodology of Liberation Theology
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Benjamin this paper described a system of mirrors created by a little hunchback who was an expert chess player sat inside and guided the puppet's hand by means of strings, which made the illusion that the table was transparent from all sides.Abstract:
board placed on a large table. A system of mirrors created the illusion that this table was transparent from all sides. Actually, a little hunchback who was an expert chess player sat inside and guided the puppet's hand by means of strings. One can imagine a philosophical counterpart to this device. The puppet called "historical materialism" is to win all the time. It can easily be a match for anyone if it enlists the services of theology, which today, as we know, is wizened and has to keep out of sight. -Walter Benjamin, "Theses on the Philosphy of History"read more
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The necessity of hope in dystopian times: A critical reflection
TL;DR: In this article, DANH engages in the very practice of scapegoating that the book itself critiques as it devalues revolutionary theory and collective practice that has developed in the progressive left.
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Steps of Renewed Praxis: Tracking the Utopian Method
TL;DR: The authors examine the dialectical tension of the negative and positive hermeneutics of the utopian method (as seen in Jameson and Levitas) and then focus on the early stages of consciousness raising in a utopian process that does not abstractly declare hope but rather concretely educates and activates it.
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Transgressive, Totalizing, Transformative: Utopia's Utopian Surplus
TL;DR: In this paper, Hythloday, an itinerant and critical intellectual, emerges as the radical utopian subject, rather than the fictive character of More as a royal adviser.
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The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act
Tom Conley,Fredric Jameson +1 more
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Theses on the Philosophy of History
TL;DR: A chronicler who recites events without distinguishing between major and minor ones acts in accordance with following truth: nothing that has ever happened should be regarded as lost for history as discussed by the authors.
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The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act
TL;DR: The Political Unconscious as discussed by the authors explores the complex place and function of literature within culture, and is one of the most influential works of the 20th century in the field of literature.
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Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing
TL;DR: Taussig as discussed by the authors used the image of the Indian shaman as Wild Man to reveal not the magic of the shaman but that of the politicizing fictions creating the effect of the real.
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Sexism and God-Talk : Toward a Feminist Theology
TL;DR: Using feminist theology as a tool to expose the male-centred bias of classical theology, Ruether articulates a faith which incorporates both genders in their totality, and which embraces a full humanity as mentioned in this paper.