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The wor(l)d of the animal. Adorno on art's expression of suffering
Although Adorno takes modern, autonomous art as the starting point for his aesthetics, this does not mean that his idea of art's truth content is restricted to the artworks of modernity.
Camilla Flodin
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Beyond Connection: Paradoxes of Psychedelic Resonance in Late Modernity
ABSTRACT This essay explores the enduring suspicion that psychedelic experiences are antithetical to the structural dynamic of modern societies through Hartmut Rosa's concepts of ‘resonance’ and ‘social acceleration’. Rosa's theoretical framework is particularly generative for studying the social meaning of contemporary psychedelia because it enables a
Mateo Sanchez Petrement
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Roberto Schwarz and the Brazilian Dialectic of Enlightenment: On the Reception of Critical Theory in Brazil [PDF]
This article aims to reconstruct Roberto Schwarz\u27s reception of Adornian Critical Theory, particularly in what concerns the dialectic of Enlightenment.
Repa, Luiz
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Blackening Careers Beyond Barriers: Intersectional Experiences of Black Women in Imperial Careers
ABSTRACT This article investigates how Black Brazilian women navigate and transform careers in the fields of medicine, law, and engineering, professions historically characterized by elitism, racism, and sexism. Employing intersectionality as a theoretical framework, methodological approach, and activist tool, the study analyses personal narratives to ...
Louise Rodrigues Silva +2 more
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Social Media Is a Threat for Democracy! A Political Perspective for Analysing and Diminishing Harm
Abstract Social media platforms, once hailed as potential champions of dialogue, have evolved into commodified spaces in which their business models incentivize hate speech, misinformation, polarization, and the political fragmentation of society, benefiting corporate and political elites while eroding democracy.
Itziar Castelló +3 more
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Reading the Scottish Enlightenment : libraries, readers and intellectual culture in provincial Scotland c.1750-c.1820 [PDF]
The thesis explores the reception of the works of the Scottish Enlightenment in provincial Scotland, broadly defined, aiming to gauge their diffusion in the libraries of private book collectors and 'public' book-lending institutions, and to suggest the ...
Towsey, Mark R. M.
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Max Horkheimer on Law's Force of Resistance
The law maintains, rather than challenges, the powers that be – or so it is commonly thought. In ‘Rackets and Spirit,’ a little known and untranslated essay, Max Horkheimer complicates this notion by attributing to law a ‘force of resistance’.
Simon Gansinger
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ABSTRACT Positive psychology has made substantial contributions to the scientific understanding of human flourishing, yet its conceptual architecture remains disproportionately grounded in WEIRD (Western, educated, industrialized, rich, democratic) populations.
Mei Xie +2 more
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How to read Adorno and Horkheimer's Dialectic of Enlightenment
Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer's Dialectic of Enlightenment is a formative text in the canon of critical theory, and a classic of twentieth-century thought. Nick Lawrence's excellent guide aids students in their study of this central work. We now take
Lawrence, Nicholas
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What is Dialectic? Some remarks on Popper’s criticism [PDF]
Karl Popper famously opposed Marxism in general and its philosophical core – the Marxist dialectic – in particular. As a progressive thinker, Popper saw in dialectic a source of dogmatism damaging to philosophy and political theory. Popper had summarized
Groisman, Berry
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