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“In the general tendency toward specialization, philosophy too has established itself as a specialized discipline, one purified of all specific content. In so doing, philosophy has denied its own constitutive concept: the intellectual freedom that does not obey the dictates of specialized knowledge.”

Book:Critical Models: Interventions and Catchwords

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Critical Models: Interventions and Catchwords

This book is a compilation of critical essays that delve into the methodologies and terminologies used in the fields of literary and cultural analysis. It offers insights into different critical models and their applications in understanding and interpreting texts and cultural phenomena. more

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Theodor Adorno

Theodor Adorno was a German sociologist, philosopher, and musicologist. He is renowned for his critical theory, co-developed with Max Horkheimer and other members of the Frankfurt School. Adorno's research focused on the analysis of modern society, culture, and the influence of mass culture on individuals. more

“The error in positivism is that it takes as its standard of truth the contingently given division of labor, that between the science and social praxis as well as that within science itself, and allows no theory that could reveal the division of labor to be itself derivative and mediated and thus strip it of its false authority.”

Wells Given Social Theory Authority Standards Labor Errors Division Derivatives Division Of Labor Positivism Praxis

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“The invocation of science, of its ground rules, of the exclusive validity of the methods that science has now completely become, now constitutes a surveillance authority punishing free, uncoddled, undisciplined thought and tolerating nothing of mental activity other than what has been methodologically sanctioned. Science and scholarship, the medium of autonomy, has degenerated into an instrument of heteronomy.”

Has Beens Activity Authority Method Instruments Mediums Autonomy Exclusive Surveillance Scholarship Validity Undisciplined Invocation Ground Rules

Author:Theodor Adorno

“A thinking that approaches it objects openly, rigorously ... is also free toward its objects in the sense that it refuses to have rules prescribed to it by organized knowledge. It ... rends the veil with which society conceals them, and perceives them anew.”

Thinking Objects Approach Refuse Perceive Organized Veils

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“Whoever is versed in the jargon does not have to say what he thinks, does not even have to think it properly. The jargon takes over this task.”