From Critical Theory to Critical Hermeneutics

Part IV PHENOMENOLOGY , HERMENEUTICS , EXISTENTIALISM , AND CRITICAL THEORY

A Critical View on New Urbanism Theory in Urban Planning: From Theory to Practice

In the wake of Jacobs’s criticisms of planning, planners increasingly felt a level of angst over, or even responsibility for, the condition of the city. Schooled in preparing and implementing plans and land use regulations, they appreciated the appeal of a new movement that offered a simple, tangible, and marketable recipe for practice. New urbanism theory is one of the contemporary urban theor...

From Critical Theory: Selected Essays

principles and the analysis of basic concepts by an armchair scholar, which are typical, for example, of one sector of German sociology. Yet these divergences do not signify a structural difference in ways of thinking. In recent periods of contemporary society the so-called human studies Geisteswissen-scMften) have had but a fluctuating market value and must try to imitate the more prosperous n...

a critical study of literary hermeneutics theories

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The critical role of hermeneutics in intelligence management

Within this article, the authors argue that intelligence management (IM) as a research area is critical for organisations. There is a need to focus on how conceptualisations of intelligence can be supported, especially when one considers the crucial role it plays in the highest echelons of most organisations. A conceptual view of IM is developed from the Problem Structuring Method, which provid...