Sentences with phrase «of false consciousness»

There is still time for Corbyn's supporters to pull back from the edge, reject the seductive embrace of false consciousness paranoia and conspiracy theory, and focus on changing the minds of real people in the country at large.

Oftentimes, these arguments have resorted to the concept of false consciousness.

This is covered by Marx (the idea of false consciousness, a term coined by Engels but utlized in Capital), but also extensively utilized by in post-modern and post-structural theory (for example, Zizek, The Sublime Object of Ideology).

Thus, in this article I do not adopt the concept of false consciousness or alienation because, besides being authoritarian, as I argued above, these concepts do not help us understand the growth of Pentecostalism and its meaning.

Portraying the individual choice to abort in this way, as a step toward freedom for the entire human race, invites women to see the sorrow they feel about their own abortions as part of a false consciousness instilled by a society determined to repress female sexuality.

Voters who place cultural or moral concerns above economic self - interest are obviously beset by a form of false consciousness (Frank never uses the term, but his analysis presupposes it).

One of the tasks of Cox's church, like any Marxist avant - garde, was to exorcise people from the demons of false consciousness.

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The first goal of a Leninist party is to educate the proletariat, so as to remove the various modes of perceived false consciousness the bourgeois have instilled in them, instilled in order to make them more docile and easier to exploit economically, such as religion and nationalism.

It's a response that reminds me of Marxism and its habit of explaining away what people say about their lives by calling it «false consciousness.»

Thus it is a wholly false supposition that Jesus» belief concerning God marks an especially high level in humanity's developing consciousness of God, that to him — as some one has expressed it — God became the «representation of the ought - to - be as the power of love.»

I think Cobb would agree that the only alternative to this position leads to a lack of self - consciousness about one's philosophical assumptions and thus induces a false security as to the adequacy of one's theological formulations.

They still accuse us and all transcendence - language users, of «false consciousness.»

With them, he opposes every form of «dogmatic mythology, «12 political or ecclesiastical authoritarianism, intellectual obscurantism or false consciousness.

The three dialectical moments of testimony — event and meaning, the trial of false testimony, and testimony about what is seen and of a life — find their echo, their reverberation, in the movement of consciousness that renounces its sovereignty.

For such people metaphor not only promises more than it can deliver, but its promises are too often grounded on false consciousness, so that a loss of faith in it is the beginning of wisdom — perhaps the philosopher Richard Rorty's discovery (bad news for Haeckel and his kind) that out there there is really no «out there.»

Bultmann had already so clearly exposed the false consciousness of objectivism that it seems incredible that, rather than being in decline, it is flourishing.

It is sadly true that the «best» are slowly withdrawing their commitment to an increasingly philistine academic culture and its institutional forms, filling merely the outward requirements of their roles and suffering the malaise of aimlessness and false consciousness.

Faculty and students continue to operate in a spiritual climate where even the best are filling merely the outward requirements of their roles and suffering the malaise of aimlessness and false consciousness.

The liveliness of substitutionary atonement theology in the storefronts and barrios may, as some contend, stem from «false consciousness.»

Women's liberation will gain general support from women only when it can be revealed as a necessity that also expresses the mandate of the woman as the foundation of the survival of the race, Male false consciousness has created an antagonistic concept of self and social and ecological relations that is rapidly destroying humankind and the earth.

Women who strive for an equality by accepting this male negation of the female remain encapsulated in male false consciousness.

This idea that voters are being lulled into a false state of consciousness by the government and the wider political «establishment» is increasingly taking hold of the Leave campaign, particularly among Tory MPs.

Studies of environmental consciousness tend to focus on urban middle classes, giving the false impression that rural populations are either unaffected, do not know or do not care.

Now we have a brilliant study, perhaps one of the first of its kind, that decimates this false flag of nutrition consciousness.

The perception of what is true and what is false or destructive ends the false and brings wisdom into consciousness.

Tokyo Mirage Sessions would only amplify Catherine «s mistakes years later by uncritically repeating the false consciousness problem in light of a blatantly abusive entertainment industry.

Rather, using as a vantage point their situation as underdogs in the realm of grandeur, and outsiders in that of ideology, women can reveal institutional and intellectual weaknesses in general, and, at the same time that they destroy false consciousness, take part in the creation of institutions in which clear thought — and true greatness — are challenges open to anyone, man or woman, courageous enough to take the necessary risk, the leap into the unknown.

Kippenberger and Oehlen manifest «infantilism,» Sigmar Polke «refuses false consciousness,» Anselm Kiefer «establishes a new sense of the possibilities that might constitute a contemporary German self.»

A certain audience will see the venue as a throwback to the denigrated «white cube,» as Brian O'Doherty branded the conventional sort of gallery space, designed to lift art and its viewers into a spotless realm of salesroom false consciousness.

The ides that the great mass of people «the proletariat» do not act in their own best interest, such as embracing communism, is to their having a «False consciousness».

The Marxist view is that the majority of people develop a «false consciousness» because the capitalist controlled media constantly feed the population is misleading information.

But then I'm still in deep climate denial, infected with the false consciousness of consumerism and obviously in urgent need of radical ecotherapy, so what do I know?

According to the Marxists, everybody suffers from false consciousness until the Vanguard leads them into the light of Marxism, the final and dominant ideology.

This week the Supreme Court will hear from an even greater number of interveners including a group of purported «feminist» women's organizations that argue that female sex workers have a false sense of consciousness and are too exploited to make their own choices.

Marxists did a lot of harm by developing arguments about «false consciousness», by which they asserted that what people thought they believed was not as important as what the Marxists thought the people should believe.

In other words, the plaintiff in a defamation action may be required to expend a considerable amount of money to bring the action, may experience significant negative publicity which repeats the false accusations, and if unsuccessful in the litigation may cement into the public consciousness the belief that the defamatory accusations were true.