Hermeneutics and Critical Theory in the Educational Sciences Critical Theory as Critique on the Hermeneutic Approach

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Hermeneutics and Critical Theory in the
Educational Sciences Critical Theory as Critique
on the Hermeneutic Approach

• Krassimir Stojanov, University of Oulu,
  13.-15.May 2009

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Contents

• Critical Theory and the Project of Emancipation
• Emancipation as Transcendence from Inside
• Developmental Stages of the Critical Theory

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Critical Theory and the Project of Emancipation

• The Project of Emancipation vs. Hermeneutical
  Reconstructions
• Emancipation as Overcoming Alienation
• Alienation and Reification
• Reification in Education

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Emancipation as Transcendence from Inside

• Transcendence from Inside as Dimension of
  Social Practices
• Transcendence from Inside and Bildung
• Transcendence from Inside and Intersubjetivity

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Developmental Stages of the Critical Theory

• The Marxist Approach (Horkheimer/ Adorno/
  Heydorn)
• The Discourse Ethics (Habermas/ Mollenhauer)
• The Recognition Approach (Honneth/ Fraser)