Sentences with phrase «on false consciousness»

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.»

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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.

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.