CRIM 2650 Lecture Notes - Critical Criminology, Scientism, Perspectivism

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25 Mar 2014
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Impossible to separate values from research agenda. Progressive agenda that favours underprivileged or marginalized people. Form of critical theory: limitations of our knowledge. Opposed to modern" assumptions (i. e. modern" as form of thought that developed during the enlightenment) Becoming we cannot be understood in static terms because we are always in the process of becoming we are in a continual process of change and movement. In the 19th century, nietzsche was a skeptic (everything is open to suspicion) he questioned every possible thing. He was skeptic about modern 19th century european civilization. He thought it was a product of 2 things: first being christian values, and second being the enlightenment. In questioning the foundations of modern civilization, he asked an original question. For him, fantasy isn"t negative; he would say that we do need fantasy in our lives and some illusion so long as those fantasies and illusions are useful to human survival.

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