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the unequal distribution of power leads to the unequal distribution of curricular knowledge, where those with more power can exert stronger influence on our commonsense understandings of the world vis-à-vis the curriculum, even if such commonsense understandings fundamentally operate as distorted conceptions of how the world works.
A Marxist Education
Wayne Au
Once we realize that progress, for the community as for the
individual, is a matter of using new words as well as of arguing from premises phrased in old words, we realize that a critical vocabulary which
revolves around notions like "rational," "criteria," "argument" and "foundation" and "absolute" is badly suited to describe the relation between the old and the new.
Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity
Richard Rorty
The three trajectories of domination are often in conflict. This presents a challenge for intellectual critique, social criticism, and political action that I call the paradox of emancipation.
Capitalism on Edge
Albena Azmanova;
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