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" Criticism and self-criticism," or inner-Party struggle as it is sometimes called, has always been a major mechanism of inner-Party decision making and discipline among Chinese political elites, but during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution it emerged as a form of mass mobilization and education as well. I shall argue here that this came about as a result of political decisions made in the context of a series of non-reversible structural changes in the Chinese system of communications

The aim of this book is to challenge the assumptions made by the structuralist and post-structuralist schools of literary criticism. It defends and attempts to re-evaluate the kind of moral reflection associated with the critical legacy of such writers as Lionel Trilling and Edmund Wilson

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This review essay considers recent humanistic scholarship, chiefly historical, that raises important questions about the place of the economic in a broader vision of social life. The essay is divided into three sections: 1. Liberal Protectionism covers an important book from Nicholas Mulder on the history of economic sanctions; 2. The Long History of Social Life discusses the recent contribution to social theory by David Graeber and David Wengrow; and 3. Inflation Retheorized calls for an economic critical response to recent developments in macroeconomic theories of inflation.

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This overview of recent work on the relationship between economics and culture takes the occasion of the Covid-19 pandemic to reflect on the urgency of creative thinking about biopolitics, in the process questioning the utility of apparent divisions between Foucauldian- and Marxist-derived approaches to the question of social reproduction.

AbstractIt is pointed out that a strategy of generalizing proofs underlies the fundamental mathematical theories of exact sciences, as an essential element leading to the accumulation of theoretical knowledge. This element is neglected by the ultra‐empiricists (Popper, Lakatos, Kuhn, Feyerabend, von Bertalanffy), with bad consequences for their followers in the sciences and in systems research.