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Debating Critical Theory:An Introduction
Get PDFOne of the distinctive features of a critical theory of society in the tradition of the Frankfurt School is the fact that it conceives of itself not as investigating timeless truths, but as historically embedded and as engaging with the “struggles and wishes of the age.” It is thus entirely appropriate, and indeed necessary, for critical theorists to reflect about their work in terms of its own contemporary context. At the beginning of the third decade of the twenty-first century, few theorists are as influential in debates in critical theory as Axel Honneth. Even though critical theory today can be understood less as forming a coherent “school” than it could have been at times in the twentieth century, and even though a robust pluralism of methods, concepts, and political commitments is now one of the defining features of this tradition, there can be no doubt that Honneth’s work represents a central point of reference for countless contemporary contributions to critical theory. This is because Honneth’s work has not only shaped debates about the very idea of a critical theory, but in doing so also proposed a new way to link critical theory and the social sciences as well as theory and social struggles (in other words, practic)
Debating Critical Theory:An Introduction
Get PDFOne of the distinctive features of a critical theory of society in the tradition of the Frankfurt School is the fact that it conceives of itself not as investigating timeless truths, but as historically embedded and as engaging with the “struggles and wishes of the age.” It is thus entirely appropriate, and indeed necessary, for critical theorists to reflect about their work in terms of its own contemporary context. At the beginning of the third decade of the twenty-first century, few theorists are as influential in debates in critical theory as Axel Honneth. Even though critical theory today can be understood less as forming a coherent “school” than it could have been at times in the twentieth century, and even though a robust pluralism of methods, concepts, and political commitments is now one of the defining features of this tradition, there can be no doubt that Honneth’s work represents a central point of reference for countless contemporary contributions to critical theory. This is because Honneth’s work has not only shaped debates about the very idea of a critical theory, but in doing so also proposed a new way to link critical theory and the social sciences as well as theory and social struggles (in other words, practic)
Debating Critical Theory:An Introduction
Get PDFOne of the distinctive features of a critical theory of society in the tradition of the Frankfurt School is the fact that it conceives of itself not as investigating timeless truths, but as historically embedded and as engaging with the “struggles and wishes of the age.” It is thus entirely appropriate, and indeed necessary, for critical theorists to reflect about their work in terms of its own contemporary context. At the beginning of the third decade of the twenty-first century, few theorists are as influential in debates in critical theory as Axel Honneth. Even though critical theory today can be understood less as forming a coherent “school” than it could have been at times in the twentieth century, and even though a robust pluralism of methods, concepts, and political commitments is now one of the defining features of this tradition, there can be no doubt that Honneth’s work represents a central point of reference for countless contemporary contributions to critical theory. This is because Honneth’s work has not only shaped debates about the very idea of a critical theory, but in doing so also proposed a new way to link critical theory and the social sciences as well as theory and social struggles (in other words, practic)
"Weltanschauung des Tuns": Anarchismus im Lichte neuester deutschsprachiger Veröffentlichungen
Get PDFRezension zu: 1) Loick, Daniel, 2017: Anarchismus zur Einführung. Hamburg. 2) Seyferth, Peter (Hrsg.), 2015: Den Staat zerschlagen! Anarchistische Staatsverständnisse. (Staatsverständnisse, Bd. 78). Baden-Baden. 3) Kuhn, Gabriel, 2017: Anarchismus und Revolution. Gespräche und Aufsätze. Münster
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Corona Constitutional #55: Ein solidarischer Shutdown
No full textSeit bald einem Jahr scheinen Deutschland und viele andere vor allem europäische Staaten von einem Lockdown zum nächsten zu stolpern, ohne die Corona-Pandemie wirklich in den Griff zu bekommen. Trotz des Impfstarts ist ein Ende dieses Hin und Her erst einmal nicht in Sicht – oder doch? Vor etwa einem Monat hat eine Initiative einen Appell unter dem Schlagwort „ZeroCovid“ veröffentlicht, die einen solidarischen europäischen Shutdown fordert. DANIEL LOICK ist Associate Professor für Politische und Sozialphilosophie und assoziierter Forscher am Frankfurter Institut für Sozialforschung und einer der Erstunterzeichner des Appells. Mit ihm spricht Evin Dalkilic über die „ZeroCovid“-Strategie, wie man sich ihre Umsetzung ohne autoritäre staatliche Maßnahmen vorstellen kann und wieso wir dabei gerade von marginalisierten Communities lernen können
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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