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Uncorrected Insight: Metaphor and Transcendence "After Truth" in Qualitative Inquiry
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The authors discusses an account of an epiphany or a process of boundary-breaking enlightenment in his research on a Green Tortoise adventure travel tour, the manner in which a form of transcendence "after truth" can exist in qualitative inquiry via the medium of metaphor.Abstract:
In this article, the author discusses an account of an epiphany or a process of boundary-breaking enlightenment in his research on a Green Tortoise adventure travel tour—the manner in which a form of transcendence "after truth" can exist in qualitative inquiry via the medium of metaphor. Despite the pessimism that can result from an engagement with the "Too Big," the author argues that there is sufficient cause for critical postmodernists to remain optimistic in their efforts to develop a coherent, value-oriented, transformational model of social inquiry.read more
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Getting Smart: Feminist Research and Pedagogy with/in the Postmodern
Geert ten Dam,Monique Volman +1 more
TL;DR: Biehl as discussed by the authors uses Murray Bookchin's Dialectical Naturalism as an alternative model for defining nature and argues that this theoretical concept allows for the possibility of what all eco-theorists appear to wanta different and less damaging relationship between humanity and the natural world.