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CRITICAL THEORY Past, Present, Future Anders Bartonek and Sven-Olov Wallensein (Eds.) SÖDERTÖRN PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES
CRITICAL THEORY Past, Present, Future Anders Bartonek and Sven-Olov Wallensein (eds.) SÖDERTÖRN PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES The series is attached to Philosophy at Sder- trn University. Published in the series are es- says as well as anthologies, with a particular em- phasis on the continental tradition, understood in its broadest sense, from German idealism to phenomenology, hermeneutics, critical theory and contemporary French philosophy. The com- mission of the series is to provide a platform for the promotion of timely and innovative phil- osophical research. Contributions to the series are published in English or Swedish. Cover image: Kristofer Nilson, System (Portrait of a Swedish Tax Form), 2020, Lead pencil drawing on chalk paint, on mdf 59.2 x 42 cm. Photo: Jesper Petersen. Te Swedish tax form is one of many systems designed to handle and present information. Mapped onto the surface of an artwork, it opens a free space; an untouched surface where everything can exist at the same time. Kristofer Nilson Critical Theory Past, Present, Future Edited by Anders Bartonek & Sven-Olov Wallenstein Sdertrns hgskola Sdertrns University Library SE-141 89 Huddinge www.sh.se/publications © the Authors Published under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License Cover layout: Jonathan Robson Graphic form: Per Lindblom & Jonathan Robson Printed by Elanders, Stockholm 2021 Sdertrn Philosophical Studies 28 ISSN 1651-6834 Sdertrn Academic Studies 83 ISSN 1650-433X ISBN 978-91-89109-35-3 (print) ISBN 978-91-89109-36-0 (digital) Contents Introduction -
Chapter 12 Personality
Chapter 12 Personality Chapter Outline 12.1 The Nature of Personality a Consistency and Distinctiveness Defi ne Personality. b Culture and Evolutionary Processes Shape Personality. 12.2 The Psychoanalytic Perspective a Psychoanalytic Theory Asserts that the Unconscious Controls Behavior. b Freud Divided Personality into the Id, the Ego, and the Superego. c Personality Development Occurs in Psychosexual Stages. d Defense Mechanisms Reduce or Redirect Unconsciously Caused Anxiety. e There Are Many Variations on Psychoanalytic Theory. 12.3 The Humanistic Perspective a Rogers’s Person-Centered Theory Emphasizes Self-Realization. b Maslow’s Self-Actualization Theory Stresses Maximizing Potential. c The Humanistic Perspective Has Been Criticized as Being Overly Optimistic. 12.4 The Trait Perspective a Trait Theories Describe Basic Personality Dimensions. b Factor Analysis Is Used to Identify Personality Traits. c The Five-Factor Model Specifi es Five Basic Traits. d Positive Psychologists Identify Personality Traits that Are Character Strengths. e Critics Challenge Whether Traits Reliably Predict Behavior. 12.5 The Social Cognitive Perspective a Personality Is Shaped by the Interaction of People’s Cognitions, Behavior, and Environment. b Life Experiences Foster Beliefs about Either Control or Helplessness. c Social Cognitive Psychologists Have Extensively Studied the Self. d The Social Cognitive Perspective Has Diffi culty Explaining Nonrational Behavior. 12.6 Measuring Personality a Projective Tests Indirectly Measure Inner Feelings, Motives, and Confl icts. b Objective Tests Ask Direct Questions about a Person’s Thoughts, Feelings, and Behavior. 12.7 The Biological Basis of Personality a Personality Is Shaped by Nervous System Arousal and Specifi c BrainActivity. b Both Genetic and Environmental Factors Shape Personality. -
Aesthetic Theory
Draft Introduction The concept of philosophical aesthetics has an antiquated quality, as does the con- cept of a system or that of morals. This feeling is in no way restricted to artistic praxis and the public indifference to aesthetic theory. Even in academic circles, essays relevant to aesthetics have for decades now noticeably diminished. This point is made in a recent dictionary of philosophy: "There is scarcely another philosophical discipline that rests on such flimsy presuppositions as does aesthet- ics. Like a weather vane it is 'blown about by every philosophical, cultural, and scientific gust; at one moment it is metaphysical and in the next empirical; now normative, then descriptive; now defined by artists, then by connoisseurs; one day art is supposedly the center of aesthetics and natural beauty merely preliminary, the next day art beauty is merely second-hand natural beauty.' Moritz Geiger's description of the dilemma of aesthetics has been true since the middle of the nineteenth century. There is a double reason for this pluralism of aesthetic theo- ries, which are often even left unfinished: It resides on the one hand in the funda- mental difficulty, indeed impossibility, of gaining general access to art by means of a system of philosophical categories, and on the other, in the fact that aesthetic statements have traditionally presupposed theories of knowledge. The problem- atic of theories of knowledge returns directly in aesthetics, because how aesthetics interprets its objects depends on the concept of the object held by the theory of knowledge. This traditional dependency, however, is defined by the subject matter itself and is already contained in the terminology."1 Although this well describes the situation, it does not sufficiently explain it; the other philosophical disciplines, including the theory of knowledge and logic, are no less controversial 332 DRAFT INTRODUCTION 333 and yet interest in them has not flagged to a similar extent. -
Psyche and History in Shelley and Freud Brent Robida Clemson University, [email protected]
Clemson University TigerPrints All Theses Theses 5-2009 Psyche and History in Shelley and Freud Brent Robida Clemson University, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/all_theses Part of the English Language and Literature Commons Recommended Citation Robida, Brent, "Psyche and History in Shelley and Freud" (2009). All Theses. 576. https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/all_theses/576 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Theses at TigerPrints. It has been accepted for inclusion in All Theses by an authorized administrator of TigerPrints. For more information, please contact [email protected]. PSYCHE AND HISTORY IN SHELLEY AND FREUD A Thesis Presented to The Graduate School of Clemson University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts English by Brent Robida May 2009 Accepted by: Dr. Brian McGrath, Committee Chair Dr. Lee Morrissey Dr. Art Young ABSTRACT The comfortable thought is over in our psychical relation to Percy Shelley and Sigmund Freud because the line of reasoning it invokes is chaotic, if only because trying to define psyche and history leads to chaotic conclusions, especially at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Shelley and Freud recognized this and were able to channel it into their art, myth, fable, allegory. The events of their lives, their History, produces itself from chaos (Freud writes across two World Wars, Shelley under the shadow of the French Revolution, Jacobin massacres and Napoleonic wars), which means its producer is chaotic, Divine Chaos, Miltonic Chaos, but chaos it still remains. There is no systematic order to their thought except that systematic order escapes all Thought, true thought, at least. -
An Analysis of Existential Psychology Arthur Erwin Wolfgarth University of Nebraska at Omaha
University of Nebraska at Omaha DigitalCommons@UNO Student Work 6-1961 An analysis of existential psychology Arthur Erwin Wolfgarth University of Nebraska at Omaha Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/studentwork Part of the Psychology Commons Recommended Citation Wolfgarth, Arthur Erwin, "An analysis of existential psychology" (1961). Student Work. 125. https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/studentwork/125 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@UNO. It has been accepted for inclusion in Student Work by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UNO. For more information, please contact [email protected]. AN ANALYSIS OF EXISTENTIAL. PSYCHOLOGY by Arthur Erwin Wolfgarth A Thesis Presented to the Graduate Faoulty of the Department of Psychology University of Omaha In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts June 1961 UMI Number: EP72773 All rights reserved INFORMATION TO ALL USERS The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. In the unlikely event that the author did not send a complete manuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted. Also, if material had to be removed, a note will indicate the deletion. Dtsssrtslioni Publishing UMI EP72773 Published by ProQuest LLC (2015). Copyright in the Dissertation held by the Author. Microform Edition © ProQuest LLC. All rights reserved. This work is protected against unauthorized copying under Title 17, United States Code ProQuest LLC. 789 East Eisenhower Parkway P.O. Box 1346 Ann Arbor, Ml 48106-1346 PREFACE The purpose of this thesis is to trace the thread of existential psychological thought from its first system atic statements in Denmark through its expansion in Europe to its influence in contemporary thought in the United States, This study begins with S^ren Kierkegaard who cast existential expression into molds that have not broken to the present day. -
Art and Society in Theodor Adorno's Aesthetic Theory
ARTICLES Art and society in Theodor Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory Francisco Fianco Universidade de Passo Fundo Abstract The main theme of this text is the relations between art and society as woven by Adorno in Aesthetic Theory, giving special emphasis, among others, to the concepts of disartification of art, truth content, authentic art and dissonance. To fulfill this purpose, we shall use the text of Adorno already mentioned, as well as other texts by the same author on specific issues and the support of scholars such as Rodrigo Duarte, Marc Jimenez and Marcia Tiburi, among others. Keywords: art; society; Aesthetic Theory; Theodor Adorno; contemporary art. Introduction The relations between art and society have always been complex, especially regarding to the dependence or submission of one in relation to the other. If a work of art, like any other cultural production, cannot be separated from the social context in which it occurs, it cannot be summed up to it or instrumentalized by it. Contemporary aesthetic phenomena lead us to perceive, much more explicitly than could ever have been perceived in the long historical trajectory of influence between both these spheres, that when devoid of its intrinsic truth, its autonomy, when subjugated to the social context, art itself loses its character of spontaneous production and becomes ideological propaganda. Of course, it would be naive to pretend that only in the XXth century, with the mass media advent, art would have been limited or influenced, although not consciously and intentionally, by a determined network of values and conceptions, even preconceptions, supported by a specific social, economic and historical configuration, which ended up giving these art works their individuality, enabling them to differentiate from the thousands of other art works already produced. -
Habermas's Politics of Rational Freedom: Navigating the History Of
This is a repository copy of Habermas’s politics of rational freedom: Navigating the history of philosophy between faith and knowledge. White Rose Research Online URL for this paper: https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/162100/ Version: Accepted Version Article: Verovšek, P.J. (2020) Habermas’s politics of rational freedom: Navigating the history of philosophy between faith and knowledge. Analyse & Kritik, 42 (1). pp. 191-218. ISSN 0171-5860 https://doi.org/10.1515/auk-2020-0008 © 2020 Walter de Gruyter GmbH. This is an author-produced version of a paper subsequently published in Analyse and Kritik. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. Reuse Items deposited in White Rose Research Online are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved unless indicated otherwise. They may be downloaded and/or printed for private study, or other acts as permitted by national copyright laws. The publisher or other rights holders may allow further reproduction and re-use of the full text version. This is indicated by the licence information on the White Rose Research Online record for the item. Takedown If you consider content in White Rose Research Online to be in breach of UK law, please notify us by emailing [email protected] including the URL of the record and the reason for the withdrawal request. [email protected] https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/ Habermas’s Politics of Rational Freedom: Navigating the History of Philosophy between Faith and Knowledge* Peter J. Verovšek† Department of Politics & International Relations University of Sheffield Elmfield, Northumberland Road Sheffield, S10 2TU United Kingdom [email protected] ABSTRACT Despite his hostility to religion in his early career, since the turn of the century Habermas has devoted his research to the relationship between faith and knowledge. -
Schopenhauer Between Freud, the Buddha and Idealist Aesthetics
9/10/2015 Articles Consciousness, Literature and the Arts Archive Volume 6 Number 3, December 2005 ___________________________________________________________________ Concepts of Liberation: Schopenhauer between Freud, the Buddha and Idealist Aesthetics. By Stephan Atzert The University of Queensland Introduction In Schopenhauer's philosophy a model of the unconscious is conceptualised, developed into an aesthetic theory and – among other trajectories – set in relation to his appreciation of Indian religious thinking. Despite the fact that Schopenhauer's ideas do not hold a place in the current philosophical canon which would be comparable to that of Kant, Hegel and Nietzsche, they have been very influential. In order to trace the scope as well as the impact of Schopenhauer's model of the unconscious, this article discusses Schopenhauer's reception by Sigmund Freud, as well as parallels between Schopenhauer and Buddhism. The topic of liberation from suffering provides a thematic focus for our enquiry, which ranges from Freud's eclectic use of the term nirvana to Schopenhauerian and Buddhist conceptualisations of liberation and of aesthetic appreciation. It will be shown that Buddhist concepts are helpful to critically understand Schopenhauer's ideas, just as the texts of Schopenhauer serve to historicise Freud's theories. Even though the bases of the two comparisons differ significantly, Schopenhauer's comprehensive and systematic description of the human experience provides their unifying framework. Schopenhauer's concepts were a decisive and largely unacknowledged influence on Freud's metapsychology. This will be outlined in “Schopenhauer and Freud”, the next section, followed by a discussion of Freud's use of the term “nirvana principle”, which led de Silva to believe that “in the philosophy of Schopenhauer may be present, a link between Buddhism and Freud” (de Silva, 1973, 187). -
No Happiness Without Fetishism«
HMINISJ INlfnrnf JAJIONS Of lHfUDOH AOOHNO rnnrnBYH[Nf[ H[O[Hl[ THfPfNNSYlYANIA STAHUNIYfBSllY PHm UNIYfBSllYPAHK, PfNNSYlYANIA Chapters 3 and 4 were originally published in the journal New German Critique. "Adorno's Siren Song" by Rebecca Comay appeared in New German Critique 81 (2000): 21-48. "A Feminine Dialectic of Enlightenment? Adorno and Horkheimer Revisited" by Andrew Hewitt appeared in New German Critique 56 (1992): 143-70. Reprinted with permission. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Feminist interpretations of Theodor Adorno / edited by Renee Heberle. p. cm.-(Re-reading the canon) Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-271-02879-3 (cloth: alk. paper) ISBN 0-271-02880-7 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969. 2. Feminist theory. I. Heberle, Renee, 1962-. II. Series. B3199.A34F46 2006 193-dc22 2006001243 Copyright © 2006 The Pennsylvania State University All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Published by The Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, PA 16802-1003 The Pennsylvania State University Press is a member of the Association of American University Presses. It is the policy of The Pennsylvania State University Press to use acid-free paper. This book is printed on Natures Natural, containing 50% post-consumer waste, and meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences-Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Material, ANSI Z39.48-1992. 5 "No Happiness Without Fetishism" Minima Moraliaas Ars Amandi Eva Geulen Theodor Adamo's greatest success is a book on failure, in which he fa mously decreed that "there is no right life in the wrong one." 1 Numerous formulations play on Minima Moralia'spervasive theme of inevitable fail ure. -
The Ethical Turn Among Many Adornian Critical Theorists Address This Lacuna
2008 SYMPOSIUM BOOK AWARD WINNER ETHICAL TURNS: ADORNO DEFENDED AGAINST HIS DEVOTEES1 Lambert Zuidervaart (Institute for Christian Studies and University of Toronto) This essay examines the nexus of politics and ethics in Theo- dor W. Adorno’s thought. First, the essay takes issue with em- phatic ethical readings of Adorno that overlook both the so- cietal reach and the inherent limitations to his politics. These limitations arise from his neglecting questions of collective agency and societal normativity. Then, the essay shows that such neglect creates problems for Adorno’s moral philosophy. It concludes by suggesting that to do justice to the insights in Adorno’s thought a democratic politics of global transforma- tion is required. 1 Much of this paper derives from Chapter 6, ―Ethical Turns‖ in Lambert Zuidervaart, So- cial Philosophy after Adorno (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007),155–81. Ethical Turns 23 “Wrong Life Cannot Be Lived Rightly”2 Student activists in the 1960s who had absorbed Adorno‘s critique of ―the administered world‖ became impatient with his apparent lack of po- litical alternatives. They asked, in effect, ―What is to be done?‖ Accord- ing to Adorno‘s social philosophy, however, V. I. Lenin‘s famous ques- tion can no longer be posed in the same way. That is one of the sobering lessons to be retained by a social philosophy after Adorno. Yet, the ques- tion will not disappear so long as one thinks that society as a whole needs to be transformed. When Adorno said that wrong life cannot be lived rightly he did not mean that relatively good actions and dispositions are impossible. -
Nietzsche, Lacan, and the Sinthome of Tragic Wisdom
Western University Scholarship@Western Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository 4-14-2020 1:30 PM Language After God: Nietzsche, Lacan, and the Sinthome of Tragic Wisdom Dylan J. Hughes The University of Western Ontario Graduate Program in Theory and Criticism A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the equirr ements for the degree in Master of Arts © Dylan J. Hughes 2020 Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd Part of the Continental Philosophy Commons Recommended Citation Hughes, Dylan J., "Language After God: Nietzsche, Lacan, and the Sinthome of Tragic Wisdom" (2020). Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository. 6961. https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/6961 This Dissertation/Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by Scholarship@Western. It has been accepted for inclusion in Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository by an authorized administrator of Scholarship@Western. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Supervisor Pero, Allan The University of Western Ontario This dissertation/thesis is available at Scholarship@Western: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/6961 Abstract Jacques Lacan’s psychoanalytic theory of the “sinthome” and Friedrich Nietzsche’s tragic philosophy of self-overcoming are deeply complementary theories of linguistic subjectivity, each describing the transformative potential of a kind of art at the centre of the inherently symptomatic experience of language. Lacan’s final seminars reimagine the psychoanalytic symptom as the potential site where each subject might forge a sinthome: a singular structure of creative agency in the experience of desire and truth. Nietzsche’s tragic philosophy works to uncover the problematically aesthetic and creative character of reality, suggesting that one must affirm and cultivate such creativity in order to overcome the tragic character of existence. -
Remarks on the Riddle-Character of Art and Metaphysical Experience
REMARKS ON THE RIDDLE-CHARACTER OF ART AND METAPHYSICAL EXPERIENCE Observaciones sobre el carácter enigmático del arte y la experiencia metafísica HENRY W. PICKFORD* [email protected] Fecha de recepción: 14 de abril de 2020 Fecha de aceptación: 17 de septiembre de 2020 ABSTRACT This essay attempts through extended textual exegesis to clarify two funda- mental concepts in late Adorno’s metaphysical and philosophical-aesthetic writings respectively: “metaphysical experience” and the “riddle-character” of art. The first part of the essay explores how in Negative Dialectics Adorno reworks certain Kantian themes to provide an account of metaphysical expe- rience as the exercise of the mind’s capacity for thinking beyond the im- manently given that brings happiness despite failing to attain the absolute. The second part of the essay interprets concepts from Aesthetic Theory and related writings, including the internal/external, performative/cognitive pers- pectives on the artwork, and its similarity to language, to show how the riddle-character of art elicits an experience similar to metaphysical experience, in that it demonstrates the ability of mind to reach beyond its cognitive self- limitations into a response-dependent objectivity with utopian implications. Keywords: Theodor W. Adorno, metaphysics, philosophical aesthetics, expe- rience, Kant. RESUMEN A través de una extensa exégesis textual, este ensayo pretende clarificar dos conceptos en los escritos tardíos de Adorno sobre metafísica y estética filosó- fica: "experiencia metafísica" y "carácter enigmático". La primera parte del en- sayo explora cómo Adorno reelabora ciertos temas kantianos en Dialéctica ne- gativa con miras a ofrecer una explicación de la experiencia metafísica como el ejercicio de la capacidad de pensar más allá de lo inmanentemente dado, que proporciona felicidad pese a no lograr alcanzar el absoluto.