POL208Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Science Wars, Relativism, Prison Notebooks
15 Sep 2017
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Marxists: there are two kinds of people within ir theory, positivists: believe there is an objective reality and truth that you can study, post-positivists: reject the notion of reality and facts are the projection of the mind. Critical theory and postmodernism: many similarities between these theories, biggest difference between the two is the role and power of ideas. Critical theory: stems from marxism, two foundations for critical theory. Antonio gramsci (1871-1937: started his development as an italian communist, he wants to move beyond marxism and especially interested in the role of. During the rise of fascism and spent time in prison. He managed to smuggle out his writings and after he died his writings were published in a book called prison notebooks . Dissatisfied with the status quo and want to change it. Getting us to examine the assumptions that underly the status quo. Critical theory roots in marxism but goes beyond it. Everything comes down to the class struggle.
