Van: Integral World [newsletter@integralworld.net] Verzonden: maandag 21 november 2011 8:18 Aan: f.visser3@upcmail.nl Onderwerp: [personal] Critical Theory INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST =========================== http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 379 Amsterdam, November 11th, 2011 WHAT IS CRITICAL INTEGRAL THEORY? - DANIEL ANDERSON Joe Corbett recently suggested I summarize my contribution to an integral critical theory. This is not the first time I have been asked to give some kind of introduction to the admittedly eccentric body of work I have cooked up, particularly in the two “long essays” published at The Integral Review: “Such a Body” and “Sweet Science.” Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/anderson9.html “BUT WHAT ABOUT...” - Responses to Frequent Criticisms - DANIEL GUSTAV ANDERSON I am occasionally approached by readers by email or even in person with questions on how or if my thinking has been influenced by particular books or writers, or more directly regarding the legitimacy and usefulness of what I have attempted in work I have published formally and informally. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/anderson10.html WHAT IS INTEGRAL CRITICAL THEORY? - JOE CORBETT There are several different lineages of critical theory, but the central or main lineage derives from the influence of Karl Marx and Max Weber on the Frankfurt School, and its culmination in the work of Jurgen Habermas. Critical Theory itself is concerned with human emancipation from oppression through the critique and transformation of cultural and social forces. And perhaps most significantly from an integrally informed point of view, it posits material and collective liberation as the conditional context and pre-requisite for individual psychological and spiritual development. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/corbett8.html GOD - GIORGIO PIACENZA CABRERA It stands to reason that God as self-effulgent, self-sustaining and essentially inscrutable…is. Just as God as Pure Beauty informs our 'hearts', our sentiment, closest to a First Person, most intimate aspect in our subjective, inscrutable experience; God as the Supreme Good informs both our heartfelt and our rationally understood (and gradually more inclusive) Second Person (the I-Thou) ethical relational experiential extensions towards all living beings, that exist in communion in relation with each other and with their Source. Additionally, God as Pure Being, most likely experienced as a Third Person rational-objective “It,” informs our reason as the Source of the rational-intuitive appreciation that that which is is; an intuition which gives origin to the recognition of the, so called, “Principle of Identity” or “Law of Identity” in logic. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/piacenza10.html To SUBSCRIBE to this Integral World Newsletter or change your email address, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/pommo/user/subscribe.php To UNSUBSCRIBE, update your account by logging in. For explanation, see: http://www.integralworld.net/nl_faq.html