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The meaning of critic and political responsibility in Iris M. Young
2013
The meaning of critic and political responsibility in Iris Marion Young This article aims to show how the conception of «critic» in Iris Marion Young is to articu- late the critical theory of society with the phenomenological analysis. This is essential to consider that injustice is based on «oppression» and defend the «political responsibility» to fight injustices. This articulation between critical theory and phenomenological analysis can be seen in her descriptions of the tensions between the structural and the immediate ways to achieve justice. If oppression is the fundamental form of injustice, political respon- sibility is the key to understanding her proposal to seek it as a way to m…
The concept of genre within the critical approach to information systems development
2001
Abstract Jurgen Habermas' Critical Social Theory is regarded as a potential approach to information systems development (hereinafter referred to as the critical approach). However, the theoretical promise of this approach has not yet been operationalized in practice. This paper discusses the potential of the genre theory of organizational communication as a conceptual basis for doing so, using two studies that applied genre concepts to analyses and debates on document management. In particular, the paper illustrates the capability of genre concepts in responding to pleas for three types of rationality — communicative, emancipatory, and formal — considered fundamental to any method of inform…
Aikalaiskritiikin mahdollisuus: Etiikka ja estetiikka Theodor W. Adornon kulttuurifilosofiassa
2015
Ajankohtaisten kulttuuristen ja yhteiskunnallisten teemojen käsittely sekä läheinen suhde estetiikkaan ovat olennainen osa mannermaiseksi kutsuttua filosofian perinnettä. Nämä teemat risteävät modernismissa, joka muodostaa monialaisen ongelmakentän aikalaiskriittiselle kulttuurifilosofialle. Tässä artikkelissa tarkastellaan, miltä modernismin filosofia näyttää saksalaisen idealismin perinteeseen nojaavan Theodor W. Adornon ajattelun valossa. peerReviewed
07. Social freedom in contemporary capitalism: A reconstruction of Axel Honneth’s normative approach to the economy
2015
This paper discusses two related issues, namely how to adequately describe the economy within the framework of a critical social theory, and how to understand the interrelation between the socio-economic and political dimensions of democracy. Concerning the first issue Honneth stresses the moral quality of social integration, and concerning the second issue he develops a conception of ‘democratic Sittlichkeit.’ In reconstructing these issues, both the promises and problems of Honneth’s work for analyzing and criticizing contemporary developments in the economy are explored. The paper concludes that the unresolved challenge for Honneth is not to succumb to a nostalgic return to 19th century …
The concept of subjectivisation by Adorno – applied in social work
2009
This article focuses upon subjectivisation as one of the core aspects of critical theory. Subjectivisation refers to the process of becoming a subject, a fully responsible, autonomously thinking and acting adult citizen, as opposed to a manipulated and system-functioning object. It is discussed in the context of the current debates on critical reflection in social work, as it contributes to discovering the power structures in which social work is embedded. The aim is not to re-discuss critical theory as a whole, but to point out the process of subjectivisation of social workers and service users as an element for critical self-reflection in social work. The contribution includes a short int…
Il paradigma honnethiano del riconoscimento: interazione, antropogenesi e normatività
2017
"Reification" demonstrates a number of discontinuities with Honneth’s earlier and later works and constitutes a bold attempt to ground a social normative theory on ontological and anthropological grounds. In order to respect the importance of this effort, I try to reconcile some of the more incompatible aspects of this work by pointing to the deep unity of the Honnethian path as a whole. First, I focus on the status of recognition itself, in order to reveal the unity of thought behind the different versions proposed by Honneth. Then, I concentrate on his references to psychoanalysis and evolutionary psychology, in an attempt to bring together the ideas of symbiosis and neonatal imitation. T…
Panel — Assessing Critical Social Theory Research in Information Systems
1997
The Critical Social Theory (CST) program of information systems research is now just over a decade old. Although the number of researchers associated with the CST program are few, they have had a disproportionately larger impact on the field than other research communities. The main reason for this disproportionate impact can be found in the intense and incisive radical critiques of the foundational assumptions of our field that CST researchers have conducted. These radical critiques have helped to open up the theoretical debate on IS research and point out new directions for future inquiry. But as we turn the century, new challenges are emerging. New information technologies (IT) are rapid…
El significado de la crítica y de la responsabilidad política en Iris Marion Young
2013
Este artículo tiene el objetivo de mostrar cómo la concepción de la crítica en Iris Marion Young consiste en articular la teoría crítica de la sociedad con el análisis fenomenológico. Ello es fundamental para que considere que la injusticia se basa en la opresión y defender la responsabilidad política para luchar contra las injusticias. Esa articulación entre teoría crítica y análisis fenomenológico se puede apreciar en su descripción de las tensiones entre lo estructural y lo inmediato en las formas de conseguir justicia. Si la opresión es la forma fundamental de injusticia, la responsabilidad política es la clave para entender su propuesta de buscar en lo político una forma de atenuar las…
Lo sguardo dell’altro: artivismo, ideologia e rappresentazione
2020
In a global context in which society has become spectacle, everything turns into representation (Debord 1967). The phenomenon of nation-states fortification emerges in a problematic way with respect to the neoliberal capital-work relationship (Mezzadra e Nielson 2013). The need to build walls, in fact, is a mode of representation that is exploited for a strategic construction of alterity. The aim of this research is to highlight the “naturalization” of stereotyped imagery, prompted by mediatic and political discourses concerning the migratory phenomenon. Starting from a recognition of the critical thinking of scholars such as Michel Foucault and Louis Marin, the goal of this paper is to tak…
A Lexicon for Italian cinema: A conversation about history, theory and critique
2017
This article represents the outcome of a round table organized and conducted by Giacomo Tagliani about the Lessico del cinema Italiano/Lexicon of Italian Cinema (2014–2016). This research and editorial project comprises three volumes and 21 entries that address the history of Italian cinema through an original and challenging approach, namely to detect a list of conceptual clusters able to provide new perspectives over the heritage of Italian films. In this refined version, the authors who took part in that round table, that is, Roberto De Gaetano (also editor of the volumes), Massimiliano Coviello, Luca Venzi and Francesco Zucconi, outline their involvement in the research project, their s…