Reflevixity & Situatedness
(with side orders of slumming & liberal guilt)
Study Guide
compiled by Ralph Dumain
“Magritte said that one could not provide a valid explanation
of something until one had explained that explanation.”
— Bernard Noël
[in Magritte (New York: Crown, 1977), p. 52]
Writings by Ralph Dumain
On reflexivity & situatedness
On Unreflective Reflexivity (Review: Hilary Lawson, Reflexivity: The Post-Modern Predicament)
Philosophy as Autobiography: Alternatives to Subjectivism
Critique of John McCumber, "Problems and Renewal in American Philosophy" (part of section McCumber Marking Time)
The German Ideology After 150 Years
Alvin Gouldner: Notes & Commentary
On slumming, liberal tolerance, angst, & narcissistic self-consciousness
Anxious Intellects: From Contradiction to Complacency (book review)
Winchester Catharsis (Review: James J. Winchester, Aesthetics Across the Color Line: Why Nietzsche (Sometimes) Can't Sing the Blues)
Remembering the Past and Forgetting Yourself, Or, Why Oprah Is Not an Abolitionist (Review: Elizabeth McHenry, Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies, Epilogue)
Taoism & the Tao of Bourgeois Philosophy (review of J. J. Clarke, The Tao of the West)
On multiculturalism, particularism, & identity politics
The Traditional Canon vs. Multiculturalism in the Literary Profession: A Sterile Debate
New Year's Resolution: Exploring Philosophical Cultures (December 2003 - January 2004) See sections "27-30 December 2003: Wisdom & the American Philosophical Association," "McCumber Marking Time," "Bogus Ethnophilosophy," "Winchester Catharsis."
The Reactionary Philosophy, Ambiguous Aesthetics, and Revolutionary Politics of Herbert Marcuse (draft). See final sections: "The Future," "Whose Future?".
Outsider Art & Identity Politics: A Dialogue on the Ideology of Politically Correct Art (Ralph & Sally)
On self-referentiality
Cultural Sophistication and Self-Reference on American Television: Seeds of Hope?
Bibliographies & study guides
Biographical and Psychological Dimensions of Philosophy: Selected Bibliography
Cynical Reason Today: A Selected Bibliography
Philosophy of Paraconsistency & Associated Logics (Web Guide)
Irony, Humor, & Cynicism Study Guide
Writings & Quotations by Others
What Is Cynical Reason? Peter Sloterdijk Explains
Quotable Quotes from The German Ideology by Marx & Engels
"Popes, Kings & Cultural Studies: Placing the commitment to non-disciplinarity in historical context" by Karl Maton
Alvin Gouldner on Intellectuals & the Social Totality
Alvin Gouldner on the New Class & the Culture of Critical Discourse
"Theory and Ideology" by Alvin Gouldner
Richard Wright Defines The Outsider
Essays on Other Sites
"Reflexivity, Relationism, & Research: Pierre Bourdieu and the Epistemic Conditions of Social Scientific Knowledge" by Karl Maton
Meanwhile, down the Uni Bar ..... by Karl Maton
The Theory of Positive Self-Reference by Anders Bordum, May 2002
Bibliographies on Other Sites
(Behold the Enemy)
Voices: Self Reflexity Bibliography
Reflexivity & Reflection: A Bibliography by Rebecca Moore Howard
Bibliography: Self-Consciousness
Bibliographical References
Simpson, David. Situatedness: Or, Why We Keep Saying Where We're Coming From. Durham: Duke University Press, 2002.
Modernity: An Introduction to Modern Societies, edited by Stuart Hall et al. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 1995. Note final chapter for splendid exercise in narcissistic reflexivity. To be reviewed by R. Dumain.
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