The Origin, Development, and Contemporary Status of Critical Theory

Antonio, Robert J.

doi:10.1111/j.1533-8525.1983.tb00705.x

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“…It will be recalled that critical theory Is concerned with inconsistencies between Ideology and people's experiences of 'reality'. Antonio (1983) argues that critical theorists seek to reveal and criticise the distortions between people's reality and dominant ideology. Critical theorists are effectively refocuslng Hegel's dialectic towards people's every day concerns.…”

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Changing Nursing and Nursing Change: a dialectical analysis of an action research project

Waterman

Webb

Williams

1995

Educational Action Research

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This paper focuses on an action research project, which aimed to develop the roles of nurses working in a specialist out-patient department. There is a dearth of literature in this field of nursing. Complex issues (historical, cultural, personal and political) surrounding the process and outcome of change are discussed. Current analyses often highlight specific aspects of the complexities of the process of change (see, for example, Titchen & Binnie, 1992). In this paper, the present debate is expanded by developing practical and theoretical arguments which draw on the work of hermeneutic philosophers and critical theorists, including Gadamer (1975) and Winter (1989). Accordingly, non-correspondences or contradictions within the research setting are identified, and 13 key factors which hindered/helped change are discussed. Drawing on a general body of literature, the analysis is widened to take into account change in other areas of nursing and education. It is argued that as nurses and researchers we live and cope with many tensions or contradictions that are dynamic and evolving. However, some of these tensions need to be addressed and settled, if only partly, for major changes in practice to occur.

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Changing Nursing and Nursing Change: a dialectical analysis of an action research project

Waterman

Webb

Williams

1995

Educational Action Research

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“…Participatory research, sometimes called action research, is another community-level nursing intervention consistent with the principles of critical theories. It calls for nurses, community members, and other resource people to work together in all phases of the project, to work mutually to identify community health problems, design research, collect and analyze data, disseminate results, and pose solutions to problems (Antonio, 1983;Brown, 1987;Chavis, Stucky, & Wandersrnan, 1983;Cook & Fonow, 1986;Lather, 1986;Maguire, 1987;Mies, 1983). Participatory research acts as a catalyst for dialogue and a tool for critiquing current policies.…”

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Applying Critical Theories to Nursing in Communities

Stevens

Hall

1992

Public Health Nursing

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Public health realities in the United States indicate that unsafe physical surroundings, oppressive social arrangements, economic impoverishment, and political disenfranchisement threaten the safety and well-being of countless aggregates. To affect change in health-damaging conditions, nurses are urged to join with vulnerable groups, working together to expose oppressive situations and take action. As a guide for such emancipatory practice, the use of critical theories as the conceptual basis for community health nursing is advocated.

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“… For a concise discussion of the differences between scientific Marxism and Western Marxism, and of the latter's status as the principal intellectual origin of critical theory, see Antonio (:326–328). …”

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Realism as Critical Theory: The International Thought of E. H. Carr

Babík

2013

Int Stud Rev

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This essay bridges the standard divide between traditional realist and critical IR theory by demonstrating their unity in the international thought of E. H. Carr. In recent times, numerous scholars have challenged Carr's mainstream disciplinary image as a traditional realist, seeking to dissociate him from realism and narrate him as a proto-critical theorist instead. However, this has implicitly reinforced the divide between the two perspectives and obscured their fusion in Carr's thought. In contrast, this essay does not deny Carr's realism, but rather reveals how it expressed a distinctly critical theoretical consciousness. Focusing primarily on his attacks on liberal statecraft and liberal historiography in, respectively, The Twenty Years' Crisis and What Is History? it demonstrates that his analyses manifested key critical theory elements, including anti-positivist epistemology, counter-hegemonic tendencies, Western Marxist ideology critique and sociology of knowledge, and a commitment to progressive human emancipation from self-imposed constraints.

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The Origin, Development, and Contemporary Status of Critical Theory

Abstract: This paper describes the nature of critical theory, its historical development, its connections to sociology and Marxism, and the central debates over its core ideas.

Cited by 22 publications

References 65 publications

Changing Nursing and Nursing Change: a dialectical analysis of an action research project

Changing Nursing and Nursing Change: a dialectical analysis of an action research project

Applying Critical Theories to Nursing in Communities

Realism as Critical Theory: The International Thought of E. H. Carr

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