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Pensky, Max

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“…The significance of the novel lies in the way in which it shows how relativism dominates modern consciousness (Lobb,(36)(37)(38)(39)(40)(41)(42)(43)(44)(45)(46)(47)(48)(49)(50)(51)(52)(53). In a much earlier critical study, Robert Green emphasizes the relativism of the novel but also attracts attention to the relativity in form: "Irresolution, intellectual and moral relativism dominate The Good Soldier, a novel whose form renders it impossible to elicit any clear-cut authorial ideology…The Good Soldier discourages empathy" (Green,93).…”

Section: The Unreliable Narrator Of the Good Soldiermentioning

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Modern and Postmodern Subject Positions: Unreliable Narrators in The Good Soldier and The Sense of an Ending

Mobarhan¹,

Fakhrshafaie

Rouhparvar

2022

Sociology

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The present study aims to study unreliable narrators in Julian Barnes's The Sense of an Ending and Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier. As Barnes prompts the reader to read his novel in the light of Ford's novel, a comparison between Barnes's unreliable narrator and Ford's unreliable narrator proves inevitable. This study examines the differences between the unreliable narrator of a modern novel and that of a postmodern novel to see if these differences could be accounted for by the fundamental differences between modernism and postmodernism. In order to see how subject positions reflect social orders, this study draws on the theoretical backgrounds of modernism and postmodernism and the debate between Habermas and Lyotard. It studies modernism in the light of fragmentation, scientific method the simultaneous rejection and invocation of the past and relates postmodernism to fluid identity, the uncertainty of history and anti-humanism. This study concludes that John Dowell

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Section: The Unreliable Narrator Of the Good Soldiermentioning

confidence: 99%

Modern and Postmodern Subject Positions: Unreliable Narrators in The Good Soldier and The Sense of an Ending

Mobarhan¹,

Fakhrshafaie

Rouhparvar

2022

Sociology

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“…Max Pensky aptly observes that “[c]learly Habermas could and did identify Marxist‐inspired social criticism as a form of organized knowledge dedicated to revealing and overcoming modes of unnecessary domination, rather than control or understanding. But he also argued that Freudian psychoanalysis could be seen in this light, despite the obvious problems of how the outcome of (potentially interminable) psychotherapy could count as knowledge, and how the radically asymmetrical relationship between analyst and analysand could be seen as a paradigmatic example of (presumably egalitarian and general) emancipation” (Pensky, , p. 25).…”

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Habermas and the therapeutic function of language

2019

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The aim of this article was to interpret Habermas's concept of language in terms of its therapeutic potential which can be effectively realized in nursing practice. Drawing on Habermas's definition, we analyse the components of rational communication which are necessary for the patient and the therapist to achieve understanding. In doing this, we examine not only lifeworld, system and validity claims, which are well‐known notions within Habermas's theory of communicative action, but also less frequently studied elements of this theory, such as everyday world, to which the patient refers in the process of self‐understanding and identity construction. We also address culture and language as a pre‐rational factor which can disturb, or even preclude, communication and understanding. In such circumstances, we propose supplementing the Habermasian therapeutic project with a psychoanalytical interpretations of the utterances of the patients who have difficulty defining the situation within which therapy is possible.

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“…58 In the public sphere, the ordinary citizens can "exercise their rational agency by participating in informal discourses on matters of shared interest." 59 From the public sphere, therefore, a movement can emerge that can "give voice to social problems, make broad demands, articulate public interests or needs, and thus attempt to influence the political process more from normative points of view than from the standpoint of particular interests." 60 The prospect of the public sphere is often frustrated, unfortunately, by the dominance of "state bureaucracies and market economies" which results in "squeezing shut the narrow public space between state and market economy, transforming active citizens into passive clients and economic consumers."…”

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Towards a Critical Theory of Philippine Society

Hermida¹

2019

Kritike

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The end of philosophy does not really mean its complete dissolution; instead, it means putting an end to the old ways of doing philosophy. Philosophy should not remain the same given the pluralism and diversity of modern society; it cannot hope to explain complex social issues by relying solely on its own methods and resources. Habermas declares that philosophy must be critical theoryits main task the forging of a theory of society aimed at emancipation. This paper elaborates his proposal on how philosophy can serve the goal of critical theory through his analysis of the potency and function of language as communicative action. Using his proposal as framework this paper then reflects on the study and teaching of philosophy in the Philippines and how these may be aligned with the new way of doing philosophy as critical theory.

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Historical and intellectual contexts

Cited by 9 publications

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Modern and Postmodern Subject Positions: Unreliable Narrators in The Good Soldier and The Sense of an Ending

Modern and Postmodern Subject Positions: Unreliable Narrators in The Good Soldier and The Sense of an Ending

Habermas and the therapeutic function of language

Towards a Critical Theory of Philippine Society

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