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America: symptoms of decline (1991)

Sheehan, Helena

America: symptoms of decline (1991)

Sheehan, Helena

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This article was an attempt to get the pulse of the zeitgeist visiting the USA in 1991.

http://doras.dcu.ie/4690/

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Behavior Analysis and Social Constructionism: Some Points of Contact and Departure (2003)

Roche, Bryan; Barnes-Holmes, Dermot

Behavior Analysis and Social Constructionism: Some Points of Contact and Departure (2003)

Roche, Bryan; Barnes-Holmes, Dermot

Abstract:

Social constructionists occasionally single out behavior analysis as the field of psychology that most closely resembles the natural sciences in its commitment to empiricism, and accuses it of suffering from many of the limitations to science identified by the postmodernist movement (e.g., K. J. Gergen, 1985a; Soyland, 1994). Indeed, behavior analysis is a natural science in many respects. However, it also shares with social constructionism important epistemological features such as a rejection of mentalism, a functional-analytic approach to language, the use of interpretive methodologies, and a reflexive stance on analysis. The current paper outlines briefly the key tenets of the behavior-analytic and social constructionist perspectives before examining a number of commonalties between these approaches. The paper aims to show that far from being a nemesis to social constructionism, behavior analysis may in fact be its close ally.

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/10663/

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Communicative Action, the Lifeworlds of Learning and the Dialogue that we Aren't (1996)

Hogan, Padraig

Communicative Action, the Lifeworlds of Learning and the Dialogue that we Aren't (1996)

Hogan, Padraig

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The first section of the paper reviews the kind of action which unfolds in Plato's Republic, and argues that, from Book II onwards, its character shifts from a genuine dialogue (communicative action) to a more manipulative kind of intercourse (strategic action). While the former kind of action was characteristic of the educational activities of the historical Socrates, the case is made that this kind of action became largely eclipsed in Western education and superseded by the strategic concerns to which Platonist conceptions of learning gave prominence. The Platonist legacy, it is pointed out, had a decisive impact on Western conceptions of learning, even beyond the Enlightenment. These conceptions were largely custodial rather than emancipatory in character. An argument is presented in thirteen steps in the second section of the paper, to establish the case that the kind of action which properly describes the experience of teaching and learning is that of a cultural courtship....

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/8595/

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Contradictory transformations: observations on the intellectual dynamics of South African universities (2009)

Sheehan, Helena

Contradictory transformations: observations on the intellectual dynamics of South African universities (2009)

Sheehan, Helena

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What sort of expectations of transformation of higher education have been aroused by liberation movements? Has the new South Africa fulfilled such expectations? This paper explores the promises and processes that have enveloped South African universities in recent decades. It focuses on the underlying assumptions shaping academic disciplines in the humanities, the debates contesting them and the social-political-economic movements encompassing them. It traces the impact of marxism, africanism, postmodernism and neoliberalism on the production of knowledge. It concludes that South African universities are caught up in a complex field forces where they are subject to conflicting pressures. The result is a state of contradictory transformations – one stemming from the politics of liberation and the other from the demands of the global market.

http://doras.dcu.ie/4537/

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Ecological roots: which go deepest? Review of Marx's ecology by John Bellamy Foster (2000)

Sheehan, Helena

Ecological roots: which go deepest? Review of Marx's ecology by John Bellamy Foster (2000)

Sheehan, Helena

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This is a review of a book entitled Marx's ecology: materialism and nature by John Bellamy Foster published by Monthly Review Press in 2000. The review appeared in Monthly Review in October 2000.

http://doras.dcu.ie/14783/

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European socialism: a blind alley or a long and winding road? (1992)

Sheehan, Helena

European socialism: a blind alley or a long and winding road? (1992)

Sheehan, Helena

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This pamphlet attempts to look at socialism at its current conjuncture in terms of a longer trajectory of history. In doing so, it also defends the possibility of philosophy of history.

http://doras.dcu.ie/4697/

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Grand narratives then and now: can we still conceptualise history? (1998)

Sheehan, Helena

Grand narratives then and now: can we still conceptualise history? (1998)

Sheehan, Helena

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Reading the Communist Manifesto today, it is impossible not to be struck by the confidence with which it conceptualises history. The positive energy of this bold grand narrative stands in such stark contrast to the negative and jaded mentality of our times, which conceives of grand narratives only to tell us that there can be none. Such talk as there is of history today is more likely to be of "the end of history". There are three senses in which references to the end of history feature in contemporary debates: apocalyptic prediction, postmodernist pronouncement and capitalist triumphalism. This paper addresses the crisis of historicity in our time in relation to these positions and asks what is it about our age that produces them. It explores the widespread rejection of grand narratives, as well as grand narratives, which nevertheless persist, implicit and explicit, right and left. It looks at the position of marxism in the 1990s, counterposing it to postmarxism and postm...

http://doras.dcu.ie/4684/

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Has the red flag fallen? (1994)

Sheehan, Helena

Has the red flag fallen? (1994)

Sheehan, Helena

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This pamphlet asked the question: has socialism come to the end of the line or can it find a new path forward?

http://doras.dcu.ie/4695/

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Identities, ideologies, market forces and social sciences (2007)

Sheehan, Helena

Identities, ideologies, market forces and social sciences (2007)

Sheehan, Helena

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Why does the theme of identities feature so prominently these days? What ideologies are at play in these discourses? What forces are shaping the academic agenda of our times? What is happening to the humanities and social sciences? How have universities changed over recent decades? How have academic disciplines evolved? Why do various forms of neopositivism and postmodernism prevail across various disciplines? Why the mania for metrics, the surveys of the surface, the exotica of deconstruction, the conclusions of inconclusiveness? Why does the most totalising system the world has ever known paralyse totalising thinking? Will marketisation marginalise all else? Will sociologists be stenographers of the surface or seers of the social order?

http://doras.dcu.ie/4712/

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Introduction: The fate of marxism (1993)

Sheehan, Helena

Introduction: The fate of marxism (1993)

Sheehan, Helena

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Marxism and the philosophy of science: a critical history was first published in 1985 by Humanities Press International. This is the introduction to the 2nd edition published in 1993. The book attempts to give a historical account of the development of marxism as a philosophy of science as well as a philosophical account of the issues involved. It encompasses the 1st 100 years of the existence of marxism, beginning with the mid-1840s when the philosophical ideas of Marx and Engels began to emerge in mature form, and ending with the mid-1940s with the dissolution of the Comintern and the end of WW2. It deals with both the mainstream of the marxist tradition in the development of dialectical materialism as a philosophy of science and with diverging currents advocating alternative philosophical positions. It shows the marxist tradition to be far more complex and differentiated than is usually imagined, characterised by sharp and lively controversies for contending paths of development...

http://doras.dcu.ie/14794/

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New age to postmodern age: the cultural location of metaphysical belief (2001)

Smyth, Fiona

New age to postmodern age: the cultural location of metaphysical belief (2001)

Smyth, Fiona

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As a cultural trend or a religious force the nature of the New Age has been persistently unclear. This paper proposes that, as a movement, it manifests an older set of concerns and an ancient worldview, according to the particular cultural conditions of the time. The first section provides a comprehensive analysis of the New Age, outlining its origins in the Western occult metaphysical tradition, through its assimilation of aspects of Eastern philosophy and modem science, to its current status as an influential, and increasingly mainstream, cultural phenomenon. The second section assesses the relationship between the new age and science, forming an illustrative example of the proposed influence of contemporary cultural values on the characteristics and forms of the movement. The final section places it within the debate on secularisation and the status of the religious as we move from the modem to the postmodern era.

http://doras.dcu.ie/19426/

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Once were Positivists: A Reply to Aya (2004)

Saris, A. Jamie

Once were Positivists: A Reply to Aya (2004)

Saris, A. Jamie

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Tbere are two basic issues in tbis essay. The first is tbe sloppy use of tbe term 'postmodernism' to designate a more or less organised collection of unsavoury academics, who (it is argued) subscribe to various forms of nihilism and epistemological hypochondria for some, as-yet-to-be-determined but clearly nefarious, ends. The exact composition of this group is left vague (although the author clearly has bis own list). It presumably includes a fair sampling of theorists of the French persuasion, most feminists, authors who are interested in the entwining of power and knowledge in human life, and nearly all 'relativists' who reject monistic certainty. For Aya, the term clearly saves time, basically by assuring himself that there has been little really worth reading in the social sciences (at least in anthropology) for the past quarter century or so.

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/8383/

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Portrait of a marxist as a young nun (1993)

Sheehan, Helena

Portrait of a marxist as a young nun (1993)

Sheehan, Helena

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This is an analysis of various religious, philosophical and political movements within the context of an experiential narration. It deals with catholicism and the cold war in the 1950s, the new left of the 1960s, marxism from the 1970s to the early 1990s. Versions of this were published in the book Marxism and Spirituality: An International Anthology (Westport & London 1993) and in the journal Socialism in the World (Belgrade 1989). This text was originally written for a conference in Yugoslavia on Socialism and the Spirit of the Age in 1988. It was a first run at a work-in-progress called Navigating the Zeitgeist.

http://doras.dcu.ie/14818/

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Review of The Progress of This Storm: nature and society in a warming world by Andreas Malm (2018)

Sheehan, Helena

Review of The Progress of This Storm: nature and society in a warming world by Andreas Malm (2018)

Sheehan, Helena

http://doras.dcu.ie/22346/

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Review: Popular television drama: critical perspectives (2006)

Sheehan, Helena

Review: Popular television drama: critical perspectives (2006)

Sheehan, Helena

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Review of: Jonathan Bignell and Stephen Lacey (eds), Popular Television Drama: Critical Perspectives. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2005. 230 pp.

http://doras.dcu.ie/4571/

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The drama of the science wars: what is the plot? [Review: Beyond the science wars: the missing discourse about science and society] (2001)

Sheehan, Helena

The drama of the science wars: what is the plot? [Review: Beyond the science wars: the missing discourse about science and society] (2001)

Sheehan, Helena

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Book review: Ullica Segerstrale (editor), Beyond the Science Wars: the missing discourse about science and society (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000)

http://doras.dcu.ie/4572/

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Universities, social movements and market forces (2007)

Sheehan, Helena

Universities, social movements and market forces (2007)

Sheehan, Helena

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Universities have changed drastically over the past few decades. To understand and articulate what has happened, I make a stab at answering, however sketchily, the following questions: What forces have shaped universities over recent decades? What as been the impact of social movements such as socialism, feminism, africanism on the process of the production of knowledge? Why has it been deemed necessary, not only to demand inclusion of the excluded in the domain of higher knowledge, but to challenge the existing canon and to struggle for radically new approaches to curricula? What has been achieved by history from below, gender studies, african studies, postcolonial studies? What has happened to all the passionate debates between contending paradigms? Are market forces marginalising all else? Is it desirable and/or possible to resist? How is the project of academic transformation in South Africa unfolding within this global field of forces?

http://doras.dcu.ie/4687/

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Writing and the zeitgeist (1991)

Sheehan, Helena

Writing and the zeitgeist (1991)

Sheehan, Helena

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Have contemporary writers anything to say about their times and, if so, have they the nerve to say it? This article argues that there is much failure of vision and failure of nerve on the part of today's writers. Because they lack the clarity and courage to come to terms with the times, they succumb to its deceptions and seductions. Its thesis is is that the power and value of writing is in the scope and depth of its engagement with the zeitgeist; in how perceptively a writer captures the spirit of the age, expresses the temper of the times; in how much of what is there in the air, throbbing in the collective psyche, pulsing in the ever shifting social order, a writer gathers up and expresses in accurate and resonant images, in provocative and paradigmatic stories. This is pursued in reflection on attitudes expressed at two international writers conferences and in polemic against the prevailing views expressed.

http://doras.dcu.ie/4693/