One dimensional man
About: This article is published in Philosophical Books.The article was published on 1965-05-01. It has received 2842 citations till now.
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TL;DR: This paper argued that there are reasons distinctive to philosophy why such theories were especially disvalued then and why they remain so today, and there are even better reasons today for philosophy to break from this history and find more fruitful ways to engage with systematic interested ignorance.
Abstract: Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud provided powerful accounts of systematic interested ignorance. Fifty years ago, Anglo-American philosophies of science stigmatized Marx's and Freud's analyses as models of irrationality. They remain disvalued today, at a time when virtually all other humanities and social science disciplines have returned to extract valuable insights from them. Here the argument is that there are reasons distinctive to philosophy why such theories were especially disvalued then and why they remain so today. However, there are even better reasons today for philosophy to break from this history and find more fruitful ways to engage with systematic interested ignorance.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explain the process through which ritual both reproduces and transforms beliefs concerning the legitimation of inequality, and the point of departure is Collins's interpretability.
Abstract: This paper explicates the much neglected process through which ritual both reproduces and transforms beliefs concerning the legitimation of inequality. The point of departure is Collins's interpret...
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TL;DR: The authors explored the intellectual biography and diverse artistic, literary and cultural production of Jeff Nuttall, a significant, if underacknowledged, figure on the British underground scene in the Sixties, arguing that Nuttall played an important international role as a catalyst and co-ordinator of countercultural events and activities through his involvement with small press publications, as an early instigator of 'happenings' and 'performance art' in the UK, and as a correspondent, networker and commentator.
Abstract: This essay explores the intellectual biography and diverse artistic, literary and cultural production of Jeff Nuttall – a significant, if underacknowledged, figure on the British ‘underground’ scene in the Sixties. It argues that Nuttall played an important international role as a catalyst and co-ordinator of ‘countercultural’ events and activities through his involvement with small press publications, as an early instigator of ‘happenings’ and ‘performance art’ in the UK, and as a correspondent, networker and commentator. In particular, it addresses Nuttall’s understanding that ‘imagination’ and ‘affect’ could be allied with collective possibilities for emancipatory social change, as well as liberatory personal development. Finally, it briefly considers the currency of these ideas within the context of a new articulation of how a ‘politics of possibility’ may be informed by notions of embodied and transmitted affectivity.
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01 Jan 2015
TL;DR: Political ecology is the field where power strategies are deployed to deconstruct the unsustainable modern rationality and to mobilize social actions in the globalised world for the construction of a sustainable future founded on the potentialities of nature and cultural creativity as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Political ecology is the field where power strategies are deployed to deconstruct the unsustainable modern rationality and to mobilize social actions in the globalised world for the construction of a sustainable future founded on the potentialities of nature and cultural creativity; in emancipatory thinking and political ethics to renew the meaning and sustainability of life. Political ecology roots theoretical deconstruction in the political arena; beyond recognizing cultural diversity, traditional knowledge and indigenous peoples' rights, radical environmentalism contests the hegemonic unification power of the market as the ineluctable fate of humanity. Political ecology in Latin America is operating a similar procedure as the one achieved by Marx with Hegelian idealism, turning the philosophy of post-modernity (Heidegger, Levinas, Derrida) on the grounds of a political ontology: territorializing thinking on being, difference and otherness in an environmental rationality, rooted in an ontology of cultural diversity, a politics of difference and an ethics of otherness . Decolonizing knowledge and legitimizing other knowledges-savoirs-wisdoms liberate alternative ways of understanding reality, nature, human life and social relations opening up different paths to reconstruct human life in the planet.
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...The critique of technology was the focus of attention and reflection of many precursors of political ecology: from questioning of techno-logy (Marcuse, 1964) and the mega machine (Mumford, 1970), an ample debate was opened around the adaptation and appropriation of small and intermediate, soft and sweet technologies (Schumacher, 1973), calling for a “social harnessing of technology” (Hetman, 1973)....
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