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- Education (318)
- Science, Society & Culture (108)
- Media and Communication (96)
- English Studies (89)
- Theology & Philosophy (54)
- History & Political Science (47)
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Critical Literacy as Resistance
Teaching for Social Justice Across the Secondary Curriculum©2009 Textbook -
Engaging the Critical in English Education
Approaches from the Commission on Social Justice in Teacher Education©2020 Textbook -
Merging Clinical Social Work Practice and Antiracist Positioning
How to be a Clinically Sound, Antiracist Social Work Practitioner©2024 Textbook -
Communities for Social Change
Practicing Equality and Social Justice in Youth and Community Work©2017 Textbook -
The Social Foundations Reader
Critical Essays on Teaching, Learning and Leading in the 21st Century©2016 Textbook -
A Convergence of the Creative and the Critical
A Reading of the Novels of Henry Green through the Literary Criticism of T.S. Eliot and F.R. Leavis©2009 Monographs -
Defining Critical Animal Studies
An Intersectional Social Justice Approach for Liberation©2014 Textbook -
On Language, Democracy, and Social Justice
Noam Chomsky’s Critical Intervention- Foreword by Peter McLaren- Afterword by Pepi Leistyna©2014 Monographs -
National Socialism in Oceania
A Critical Evaluation of its Effect and Aftermath©2010 Conference proceedings -
Social Welfare Policy in South Africa
From the Poor White Problem to a "Digitised Social Contract"©2018 Monographs -
Contemporary Critical Concepts and Pre-Enlightenment Literature
ISSN: 1074-6781
"Writers who worked before the beginning of rationalist universalism's triumphal period which may be ending now-explored issues of consciousness, ideology, and culture that recent criticism and critical theory, using various specialized vocabularies of concepts, have returned to the center of literäry and social criticism. These early modern figures often anticipated some of our clilemmas; How to manipulate an apparently quite mutable world and, at the same time, preserve belief in an immutable "centered" self? How to reconcile rationalist universalism with personal and cultural stability? Rene Descartes's postulate of man as the master and proprietor of an increasingly built world is fundamentally incompatible with his effort to underwrite man as a stable philosophical subject. Man's technical and linguistic mastery devours his "transcendent subjectivity." Students of literature are now using the ideas of what Larry Riggs calls "post-enlightenment thinkers"-Max Horkheimer, Jacques Lacan, Michael Foucault, Rene Girard, and others-to elucidate the implicit and explicit debates about rationalism that are embedded in literary works. This trend is most usefully seen as a renewal of contact with preoccupations that were quite current in medieval, Renaissance, and seventeenth-century European literature. To date, however, innovative criticism has focused an more recent literature. Some post-structuralists-most notably Jacques Lacan-have tried their hand at interpreting early works. Their ideas are interesting, but their knowledge of the periods in question is often weak. Manuscripts on Elizabethan and Restoration theater, French, Italian, and German writers of the medieval and Renaissance periods, and die seventeenth-century French dramatists and moralists are welcome. "
3 publications
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Critical Animal Studies and Activism
International Perspectives on Total Liberation and Intersectionality©2023 Edited Collection -
Expanding the Critical Animal Studies Imagination
Essays in Solidarity and Total Liberation©2024 Textbook -
Critical Digital Making in Art Education
©2020 Textbook -
Humanizing Collectivist Critical Pedagogy
Teaching the Humanities in Community College and Beyond©2024 Textbook