The idea is growing among educators that thinking skill needs to be given a direct attention. On one hand, critical thinking is supposed to broaden students’ thinking in all regards (Schafersman, 1991); and on the other hand learners’ attitudes towards the second language can affect both their performance in the class and their final accomplishment. To this end, the present study started with t...

art contains the sensuous appearance of the Idea, the symbol of a rationality of reason that is beyond words [1], Art was not language for Hegel because it is non-discursive; it gave form to hidden, ineffable content. Marcuse in his later work came to regard art as the last refiige of critical insights in a totally mobilized society. In his last book, The Aesthetic Dimension (1978), he rejoins ...

the aim of my argument (1) is to reconceptualise what is now called religious studies as the study of institutionalised values, and the relation between values and the legitimation of power in a specific society. though i do not talk much about power here, it is always a fundamental issue in the study of specific social groups.the first assumption which i make in this paper is that the way anal...