Tag: Critique

Free Download Andreea Smaranda Aldea, "Phenomenology as Critique "
English | ISBN: 103201511X | 2022 | 292 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Drawing on classical Husserlian resources as well as existentialist and hermeneutical approaches, this book argues that critique is largely a question of method. It demonstrates that phenomenological discussions of acute social and political problems draw from a rich tradition of radically critical investigations in epistemology, social ontology, political theory, and ethics.

Free Download The Japanese Ideology: A Marxist Critique of Liberalism and Fascism by Tosaka Jun
English | September 17th, 2024 | ISBN: 023121653X | 392 pages | True EPUB | 1.08 MB
A major Marxist thinker and critic in 1930s Japan, Tosaka Jun was among the world’s most incisive-yet underrecognized-theorists of capitalism, fascism, and ideology during the years before World War II. The Japanese Ideology is his masterpiece, first published in 1935, as Japan and the world plummeted into an age of reaction. Tosaka offers a ruthless philosophical critique of contemporary ideology that exposes liberalism’s deep complicity with fascism.

Free Download Conscious in a Vegetative State? A Critique of the PVS Concept By Peter McCullagh (auth.)
2005 | 354 Pages | ISBN: 1402026293 | PDF | 2 MB
Having been originally introduced as a term to facilitate discussion of a specific group of patients regarded as entering a state of unawareness following coma, the ‘Persistent Vegetative State’ (PVS) has established itself as an apparently discrete medical condition with clear-cut implications for ethicists and lawyers that exceed any scientifically based understanding. As a consequence of this upgrading, conclusions drawn about the status and hence the management of this uncommon condition have been increasingly extended to other patients with much more common forms of disability. This book traces the origins of prevailing perceptions about PVS and submits these to critical examination. In doing this it comes to the conclusion that inadequate attention has been paid to acknowledging what is not known about affected individuals and that assumptions have consistently come to be traded as facts. Re-examination of the basis of the PVS and the adoption of a more scientific approach is long overdue and is owed to the community at large which has generally been provided by many medical practitioners with a ‘dumbed-down’ account of the condition. The book will be of interest to philosophers, medical graduates and neuroscientists but is also intended to remain accessible to the general reader with an interest in the wider implications of trends in medical thinking for attitudes towards many classes of patient. It has an extensive bibliography and will be of specific interest to bioethicists and lawyers with professional interests in PVS.

Free Download Hanna Ojanen, "The Plurality of Truth: A Critique of Research on the State and European Integration"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1138341487, 1138341479 | EPUB | pages: 377 | 0.7 mb
First published in 1998, this book breaks a path through the vast field of integration research showing how and why views on the relationship between the state and integration have developed in time. It illustrates the development by dialogues between representatives of opposing views and renders their plurality understandable through spelling out choices made in research and identifying the crucial background factors which direct research: disciplinary divisions, scholars’ methodological preferences, views on science and theory, and their values. It further shows the decisive concrete influence of the views through displaying contradictory interpretations of two case studies; Finnish integration policy and Nordic cooperation. Concentrating on the immediate pre-enlargement period, these studies show how the question of the consequences of EU membership was tackled in practice. This unconventional disposition is challenging in that it requires the reader to pay attention to revealing details but rewards with new insights into the kaleidoscopic nature of research, construction of knowledge and the value of plurality.

Free Download Sustainable Livelihood Approach: A Critique of Theory and Practice By Stephen Morse, Nora McNamara (auth.)
2013 | 190 Pages | ISBN: 9400762674 | PDF | 4 MB
We all view the ubiquitous term ‘sustainability’ as a worthwhile goal. But how can we apply the principles of sustainability in the real world, at the sharp end of communities in developing nations where income insecurity is the troubled norm? This volume provides some practical answers, explaining the precepts of the ‘sustainable livelihood approach’ (SLA) through the case study of a microfinance scheme in Africa.The case study, centered around the work of the Catholic Church’s Diocesan Development Services organization, involved an SLA implemented over two years designed in part to help enhance its existing microfinance operation through closer links between local communities and international donors. The book’s central conclusion is that we must move beyond the concept of sustainable livelihood itself, with its in-built polarities between developed and developing nations, and embrace a more global notion of ‘sustainable lifestyle’; a more nuanced and inclusive approach that encompasses not just how we make a sustainable living, but how we can live sustainable lives.

Free Download Fotini Vaki, "Neoliberalism, Democracy, and Rights: Towards a Critique of Neoliberal Reason "
English | ISBN: 3031614666 | 2024 | 132 pages | EPUB, PDF | 395 KB + 3 MB
The book sheds light on the forms of neoliberalism’s political rationality by highlighting the theoretical foundations upon which they are built. It relies on Foucault’s account of neoliberal reason in terms of a governmental rationality encompassing all aspects of human life, as well as Critical Theory’s methodology.

Free Download Karl Marx, "Capital: Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1"
English | ISBN: 0691190070 | 2024 | 944 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Marx for the twenty-first century

Free Download Alfredo Ferrarin, "Thinking and the I: Hegel and the Critique of Kant"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0810139383, 0810139391 | PDF | pages: 250 | 1.6 mb
What is the relation between thinking and the I that thinks? And what is the relation between thought and reality? The ordinary view shared by modern philosophers from Descartes to Kant, as well as by common sense, is that there is only thought when someone thinks something, and thoughts and concepts are mental acts that refer to objects outside us.

Free Download Maurizio Ricciardi, "The Provisional Power: Marx and Politics As a Critique of Society "
English | ISBN: 9004699155 | 2024 | 188 pages | PDF | 15 MB
In this book, you can find an accurate and unusual analysis of the different ways in which Karl Marx investigates the political and social phenomenon of power. As a political militant, as a journalist, as a critic of capitalism and as a revolutionary theorist, Marx continually confronts the ways in which individuals and social classes enter into power relations. For Marx, however, there is no bourgeois power that proletarians can simply conquer and then use to their advantage. Workers’ power is always provisional because it constantly changes the very conditions of its own production.

Free Download The Bourgeois and the Savage: A Marxian Critique of the Image of the Isolated Individual in Defoe, Turgot and Smith (Marx, Engels, and Marxisms) by Alfonso Maurizio Iacono, translated by Leigh-Anne Wendy Mazzoncini
English | March 19, 2020 | ISBN: 3030395073, 3030395103 | True EPUB | 161 pages | 1 MB
This classic text in Italian history of political philosophy, translated into English for the first time, investigates the philosophical and ideological conceptions hidden beneath the modern image of the isolated individual. In The Bourgeois and the Savage, Alfonso Maurizio Iacono reveals that this apparently simple and transparent image is imbued with a profound complexity containing human and social relationships, which are intertwined with relationships of power, domination, inequality, colonisation and servitude.