Patrick Colm Hogan
- Published in print:
- 1990
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195062724
- eISBN:
- 9780199855247
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195062724.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
While affirming the profound importance of political analysis, this book is critical of prevalent doctrines. Specifically, it examines and criticizes several influential post-structuralist positions, ...
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While affirming the profound importance of political analysis, this book is critical of prevalent doctrines. Specifically, it examines and criticizes several influential post-structuralist positions, advocating logical analysis and empirical enquiry, guided by Kantian ethics, in their stead. In Chapter 1, the book seeks to define in practical and empirical terms the nature and domain of political interpretation. In the second and third chapters, after introducing ideological critique as a particularly important form of political interpretation, the book criticizes some prominent, post-structural alternatives to the position it is advocating. In the fourth chapter, the book develops a psychological analysis of ideology and the critique of ideology. And finally, in Chapter 5, it turns to the structure of the university, examining some of the ways in which it now contributes to the dissemination of oppressive ideologies, as well as how it might be restructured so as to inhibit such dissemination, and even to foster the sort of critical thinking which is (along the lines indicated in Chapter 4) antithetical to such ideologies.Less
While affirming the profound importance of political analysis, this book is critical of prevalent doctrines. Specifically, it examines and criticizes several influential post-structuralist positions, advocating logical analysis and empirical enquiry, guided by Kantian ethics, in their stead. In Chapter 1, the book seeks to define in practical and empirical terms the nature and domain of political interpretation. In the second and third chapters, after introducing ideological critique as a particularly important form of political interpretation, the book criticizes some prominent, post-structural alternatives to the position it is advocating. In the fourth chapter, the book develops a psychological analysis of ideology and the critique of ideology. And finally, in Chapter 5, it turns to the structure of the university, examining some of the ways in which it now contributes to the dissemination of oppressive ideologies, as well as how it might be restructured so as to inhibit such dissemination, and even to foster the sort of critical thinking which is (along the lines indicated in Chapter 4) antithetical to such ideologies.
Mark Salber Phillips
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300140378
- eISBN:
- 9780300195255
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300140378.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, Historiography
This chapter examines the so-called contrast narrative, an unusual but influential historical genre in the early nineteenth century. It discusses the idea that historical thought involves a dialogue ...
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This chapter examines the so-called contrast narrative, an unusual but influential historical genre in the early nineteenth century. It discusses the idea that historical thought involves a dialogue between two distinct moments but finds no acknowledgment in history's formal structure and the contradiction between history's conceptual underpinnings and its formal arrangements. The chapter also provides examples of contrasting narrative including Thomas Carlyle's Past and Present and Augustus Pugin's Contrasts which used doubled or ironic narratives for purposes of ideological critique.Less
This chapter examines the so-called contrast narrative, an unusual but influential historical genre in the early nineteenth century. It discusses the idea that historical thought involves a dialogue between two distinct moments but finds no acknowledgment in history's formal structure and the contradiction between history's conceptual underpinnings and its formal arrangements. The chapter also provides examples of contrasting narrative including Thomas Carlyle's Past and Present and Augustus Pugin's Contrasts which used doubled or ironic narratives for purposes of ideological critique.
Kenneth L. Marcus
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199375646
- eISBN:
- 9780190257897
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199375646.003.0005
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
The fourth chapter considers whether anti-Semitism can best be defined as a sui generis phenomenon or as a particular manifestation of a more general social problem. The so-called “homogenizing” or ...
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The fourth chapter considers whether anti-Semitism can best be defined as a sui generis phenomenon or as a particular manifestation of a more general social problem. The so-called “homogenizing” or generalizing definitions define anti-Semitism in terms of a broader category such as xenophobia, hatred of the other, or ethnic prejudice. The contrasting approach, which has been described as “atomization,” views anti-Semitism as a unique or exceptional phenomenon. Each approach has its own strengths, partisans, functions, and limitations. As with other contrasting approaches examined in previous chapters, both atomization and homogenization can helpfully illuminate some important aspects of anti-Semitism, but each has its own blind spots as well. Finally, this chapter will explain a peculiar if not unique aspect of anti-Semitism, i.e. the way in which anti-Semitism serves as a nodal point through which otherwise free-floating elements are united in an ideological field.Less
The fourth chapter considers whether anti-Semitism can best be defined as a sui generis phenomenon or as a particular manifestation of a more general social problem. The so-called “homogenizing” or generalizing definitions define anti-Semitism in terms of a broader category such as xenophobia, hatred of the other, or ethnic prejudice. The contrasting approach, which has been described as “atomization,” views anti-Semitism as a unique or exceptional phenomenon. Each approach has its own strengths, partisans, functions, and limitations. As with other contrasting approaches examined in previous chapters, both atomization and homogenization can helpfully illuminate some important aspects of anti-Semitism, but each has its own blind spots as well. Finally, this chapter will explain a peculiar if not unique aspect of anti-Semitism, i.e. the way in which anti-Semitism serves as a nodal point through which otherwise free-floating elements are united in an ideological field.
Sabina Lovibond
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780198719625
- eISBN:
- 9780191788710
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198719625.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Moral Philosophy
The book brings together a selection of the author’s shorter writings from the years 1989–2014. This work can lay claim to a broad thematic unity based on its affiliation to the realist or ...
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The book brings together a selection of the author’s shorter writings from the years 1989–2014. This work can lay claim to a broad thematic unity based on its affiliation to the realist or rationalist traditions in moral philosophy. Some of the essays seek to clarify the relation of feminism to these traditions and to current anti-rationalist tendencies: especially important here are the status and prospects of normativity, autonomy, purposive action, and other conceptual resources for critical thinking which were called into question over (roughly) the last third of the twentieth century — not least by feminist writers heedful of ‘Continental’ European developments. All are concerned with fundamental ethical questions — including, but not restricted to, questions of feminist ethics — such as the nature of value and the good life; moral requirements and their associated epistemology; character-formation and the ideological critique of the processes by which this is effected. The essays deploy ideas drawn both from Platonic-Aristotelian and from Kantian ethics, as well as from the later philosophy of Wittgenstein. However, they also attempt to respond to the destabilizing impact of Nietzschean and postmodernist thought.Less
The book brings together a selection of the author’s shorter writings from the years 1989–2014. This work can lay claim to a broad thematic unity based on its affiliation to the realist or rationalist traditions in moral philosophy. Some of the essays seek to clarify the relation of feminism to these traditions and to current anti-rationalist tendencies: especially important here are the status and prospects of normativity, autonomy, purposive action, and other conceptual resources for critical thinking which were called into question over (roughly) the last third of the twentieth century — not least by feminist writers heedful of ‘Continental’ European developments. All are concerned with fundamental ethical questions — including, but not restricted to, questions of feminist ethics — such as the nature of value and the good life; moral requirements and their associated epistemology; character-formation and the ideological critique of the processes by which this is effected. The essays deploy ideas drawn both from Platonic-Aristotelian and from Kantian ethics, as well as from the later philosophy of Wittgenstein. However, they also attempt to respond to the destabilizing impact of Nietzschean and postmodernist thought.
