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Critical theory
About: Critical theory is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 5372 publications have been published within this topic receiving 164765 citations.
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06 Jan 1997
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a curriculum for critical being in higher education, critical action critical self-reflection, and critical critical thinking for a learning society a critical space.
Abstract: Part 1 Rethinking critical thinking: conditions of critical thought uncritical theory discourse and critical potential the closing of the critical university? Part 2 Towards critical being: critical being in higher education critical action critical self-reflection a curriculum for critical being. Part 3 critique in society: critical thought in a corporate world critical professionalism academics as intellectuals critical thinking for a learning society a critical space.
954 citations
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01 Jan 1991TL;DR: Feenberg as discussed by the authors discusses the possibility of a radical reform of industrial society and challenges the assumption that modern society, with its emphasis on technological reasoning, has condemned its members to mindless work and subservience to the dictates of management.
Abstract: Feenberg discusses the possibility of a radical reform of industrial society. He challenges the assumption that modern society, with its emphasis on technological reasoning, has condemned its members to mindless work and subservience to the dictates of management. In doing so, he presents a new interpretation of the relationship between technology, rationality, and democracy.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a critical cultural politics towards a critical ethnography, which they call "Rethinking ethnography" (RethINKING ENERGY).
Abstract: (1991). Rethinking ethnography: Towards a critical cultural politics. Communication Monographs: Vol. 58, No. 2, pp. 179-194.
822 citations
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01 Jan 1987
TL;DR: The theory of modernity as discussed by the authors is based on the notion of the system and the lifeworld, a concept of the human world and the hermeneutic idealism of interpretive sociology.
Abstract: Part 5 The paradigm shift in Mead and Durkheim: from purposive activity to communicative action the foundations of social science in the theory of communication the authority of the sacred and the normative background of communicative action the rational structure of the linguistification of the sacred. Part 6 Intermediate reflections: system and lifeworld the concept of the lifeworld and the hermeneutic idealism of interpretive sociology the uncoupling of system and lifeworld. Part 7 Talcott Parsons: problems in constructing a theory of society from a normativistic theory of action to a systems theory of society the develpment of systems theory the theory of modernity. Part 8 Concluding reflections - from Parsons via Weber to Marx: a backward glance - Weber's theory of modernity Marx and the thesis of internal colonization the tasks of a critical theory of society.
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