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Critical theory
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01 Jan 1988TL;DR: In this paper, a minimal ethics and orientation for political theory is proposed, with a focus on action, rationality and normative discourse, and the foundations of communicative ethics as the two tasks of critical theory.
Abstract: Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Introduction 1. Rationality, social theory and political philosophy 2. Action, rationality and normative discourse 3. Justice and the foundations of communicative ethics 4. Toward a minimal ethics and orientation for political theory 5. Communicative reason, modernity and contemporary capitalism 6. The two tasks of critical theory Notes Bibliography Index.
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22 Jan 1998
TL;DR: In "Ethics after idealism" as discussed by the authors, Chow explores the issue of cultural otherness that has been central to her work since the publication of "Woman and Chinese Modernity" and argues that what demands to be examined critically is not identity politics per se but, more precisely, the idealism that lies at the heart of identity politics.
Abstract: In "Ethics after Idealism", Rey Chow explores once again the issue of cultural otherness that has been central to her work since the publication of "Woman and Chinese Modernity". At a time when cultural identity has become irreversibly imbricated with the manners in which we read our many 'others', Chow argues, what demands to be examined critically is no longer identity politics per se but, more precisely, the idealism - especially in the sense of idealizing otherness - that lies at the heart of identity politics. Recognizing the necessity for a critique of idealism - the necessity to see how idealism is constructed, consolidated and perpetuated, and mobilized with disturbing consequences - constitutes for Chow an ethics in the postcolonial, postmodern age. In particular, she uses 'ethics' to refer to the act of taking decisions - in this context, decisions of reading - that may not immediately conform with prevalent social mores of idealizing our others but that, nonetheless, would enable such others to emerge in their full, albeit irrational, complexities. From theorists Slavoj Zizek and Gayatri Spivak to Frantz Fanon, from songwriter Luo Dayou to poet Leung Ping-kwan, and from the film "M. Butterfly" to the films "The Joy Luck Club", "To Live", and "Rouge", Chow discusses a collection of source materials whose affinities are as surprising as their appearances are diverse. The readings she offers involve multiple cultural forms - including fiction, film, popular music, poetry, and critical essays - as well as a range of cultural topics - including pedagogy, multiculturalism, fascism, sexuality, miscegenation, community, fantasy, governance, nostalgia, and postcoloniality. Methodologically situated in the contentious spaces between critical theory and cultural studies, and always attentive to the implications of ethnicity in contemporary cultural politics, Chow's work should be of interest to readers from many scholarly disciplines.
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01 Feb 2010
TL;DR: The authors report on the opportunities for transformational learning experienced by a group of pre-service teachers who were engaged in service-learning as a pedagogical process with a focus on reflection.
Abstract: This paper reports on the opportunities for transformational learning experienced by a group of pre-service teachers who were engaged in service-learning as a pedagogical process with a focus on reflection. Critical social theory informed the design of the reflection process as it enabled a move away from knowledge transmission toward knowledge transformation. The structured reflection log was designed to illustrate the critical social theory expectations of quality learning that teach students to think critically: ideology critique and utopian critique. Butin's lenses and a reflection framework informed by the work of Bain, Ballantyne, Mills and Lester were used in the design of the service-learning reflection log. Reported data provide evidence of transformational learning and highlight how the students critique their world and imagine how they could contribute to a better world in their work as a beginning teacher.
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29 Sep 1997
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce Psychoanalysis and Discourse and post-theories: SubjectIVITY and the SOCIAL Symbolic Orders, Subjects and Cyberspace Mirroring, Imagining and Escaping the Local Economy Real Things, Recovery and Therapy.
Abstract: Introduction Psychoanalysis and Discourse PART ONE: OBJECT RELATIONS THEORIES: SELF AND SOCIETY Groups, Identity and Forms of Knowledge Religious Belief, Charity and Crooked Cures War Breaking Out, in Inner and Outer Space PART TWO: CRITICAL THEORIES: INDIVIDUALITY AND CULTURE Individuality, Enlightenment and the Psy-Complex Authoritarianism, Ideology and Masculinity Culture and Nature after Enlightenment PART THREE: POST-THEORIES: SUBJECTIVITY AND THE SOCIAL Symbolic Orders, Subjects and Cyberspace Mirroring, Imagining and Escaping the Local Economy Real Things, Recovery and Therapy
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129 citations