abstractmodernism and social class both are categories rose up from the west capitalism system and create somechallenges for the society. the aim of this discussion is explaining the conflict between tradition andmodernism based on one of the main conflict roots which is called class conflict. in the other words, in thisarticle authors tried to indicate that one the creator or accelerating fact...

This paper provides a critique of IMP modeling and other schools of network analysis as captive of logocentric thought and colonized by modernist discourse, which relies upon the unchallenged assumptions of reason, rationalism and anthropocentric progress through scientism. IMP modeling is a welcome relief from narrower forms of economic rationalism in its attempted integration of social influe...

A danger that postmodernism faces is that it is branded as irrelevant to practicing managers – those who daily influence the lives of others. Part of the accusation of irrelevance derives from attacks on postmodern thinking that see it as propounding a sense of purposelessness and antipathy to action. It is possible to see such accusations as being based on a reading of Lyotard’s (1984) demolit...

In this article I aim to broaden and deepen the evolution of consciousness discourse by integrating the integral theoretic narratives of Rudolf Steiner, Jean Gebser, and Ken Wilber, who each point to the emergence of new ways of thinking that could address the complex, critical challenges of our planetary moment. I undertake a wide scan of the evolution discourse, noting it is dominantly limite...

In India, Latin America, and Europe, homeopathy thrives: in the UK, all one ever hears is negativity. Here, homeopathy is described as ‘(...) just a placebo’, ‘(...) contrary to the laws of science’, ‘(...) quackery practiced on the weak-minded’, and ‘(...) those who believe in it are deluded’ [1]. In addition, ‘there is no evidence homeopathy works’, ‘(...) homeopathy is unethical’ [2–5], and ...

This book is part of the Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy series. According to editors its primary aim present a philosophical study and defense idea enchantment, response cultural trends modern world where life for humanity has become disenchanted. Disenchantment as concept, originally credited German sociologist Max Weber (1864–1920), emphasizes that society secularized increasing...

Two court cases, McLean v. Arkansas (“Arkansas”) in 1980 and Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District et al. (“Dover”) in 2005, showed how decisive philosophy can be when wielding the demarcation argument, as both creation science and intelligent design were denied victories because they were judged to be unscientific based on demarcation arguments. However, since the Arkansas decision a...

Bernard Harcourt's latest book is bold, brave, and too short. It bold in its ambition to return critical theory praxis, action, changing the world instead of interpreting it. Harcourt urges theorists stop infighting over epistemological issues focus on what important—for needs changing, as he makes abundantly clear. The brave because it does precisely argues should do: sketches theory's history...

ion and abstract labour Is it only in the process of exchange that labour become abstract? There is a confusion here between the role of abstraction in science and the partial way inwhich the abstract categories discovered by science become apparent to quotidian perception. Science must always seek the general behind the concrete, the abstract behind the particular.Thus in the developme...

This essay addresses three aspects of Barad's views about meaning and normativity: her 'post-humanist' insistence that the agential cuts that constitute phenomena need not incorporate human beings as observers, measurers, speakers, or concept-users; her alternative account of the objectivity of measurement, which also specifies the meaning of what she calls 'theoretical' concepts; and her claim...