Please turn JavaScript on
Find more feeds

New Discourses

Subscribe to New Discourses’s news feed.

Click on “Follow” and decide if you want to get news from New Discourses via RSS, as email newsletter, via mobile or on your personal news page.

Subscription to New Discourses comes without risk as you can unsubscribe instantly at any time.

You can also filter the feed to your needs via topics and keywords so that you only receive the news from New Discourses which you are really interested in. Click on the blue “Filter” button below to get started.

Website title: New Discourses

Is this your feed? Claim it!

Publisher:  Unclaimed!
Message frequency:  0.37 / day

Message History

The Anatomy of a Critical Theory
New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 177 In 1969, Max Horkheimer gave an interview in which he was called to account for his development of the Critical Theory and its application through the Frankfurt School, which he had directed for decades. In that essay, he offers a straightforward explanation for why he formulated the Critical Theory and what it is for, saying it allows criticism ...

Read full story
Traditional and Critical Theory According to Max Horkheimer
The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 218 The school of thought known as Critical Theory was born, as we understand it today, in an essay written in 1937 by Max Horkheimer, who was director of the infamous Frankfurt School. This definitive essay of Western Marxism makes it clear that what we think of as "theory" is only one side of the story, and it's the side that...

Read full story
A Short Defense of the Moral Institution of Profit
New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 176 Profit is good. It is good practically, and it is good morally. Rarely today do we hear such a direct and clear statement or a thorough defense of these facts, but it's necessary. Our people, especially younger people, need to understand that they're not just participating in a successful system but also an intrinsically moral one: a fair one tha...

Read full story
We, the Screamers
The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 217 A very relatable feeling today is that of having something incredibly important to say while nobody listens. We go on screaming about the nearly existential horror of the situation we are in while everyday life goes on beside us, ignoring us, denying us. It's incredibly frustrating. This now far-too-familiar circumstance wa...

Read full story
Resisting Welfare Mentality
New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 175 Welfare mentality is believing that you should be given things you haven't earned because you simply deserve them, whatever the excuse. Maybe it's entitlement; maybe you believe it's a "human right." It doesn't matter. It is to be contrasted with a mindset that understands, recognizes, and honors the dignity of work, of production and the fair tr...

Read full story