Topic 13 Critical Theory Flashcards
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Three kinds of relationships with the world
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World goal: Set of all entities.
Social world: Set of all interpersonal relationships.
Subjective world: Set of individual experiences.
2
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Mass culture
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People learning through mass media
3
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Elements of society research
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Critical reason against instrumental reason.
Qualitative over quantitative.
Combat mass culture and capitalism.
Philosophy has some degree of responsibility for the world’s suffering.
Analysis of positivism, Nazism and fascism.
Struggle against profit and exploitation.
4
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Main representatives of the Critical Theory
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Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Herbert Marcuse and Jurgen Habermas.
