Cultural Studies is founded on agonistic debate inimical to orthodoxy
Evidence
As a philosophic school, it has certain definite characteristics. First, it is confined within the limits of what appears to the writer to be orthodoxy; if his views are condemned by a council, he is usually willing to retract. … Third, there is a great belief in ‘dialectic’ and in syllogistic reasoning; the general temper of the scholastics is minute and disputatious rather than mystical. — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 1658 (
#contradicts, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Cultural Studies engaged Marxism as a problem, not a solution; Cultural Studies history is interrupted by exterior forces, not unfolded internally; Cultural Studies must balance holding a position with open-ended ongoing theorizing. (+7 more)
Related
- Cultural Studies must balance holding a position with open-ended ongoing theorizing. (similarity 0.82)
- Cultural Studies grew from agonistic debate, not progress toward settled orthodoxy (similarity 0.81)
- Scholastic philosophy operates within orthodoxy and uses syllogistic reasoning (similarity 0.80)
- Cultural Studies engaged Marxism through its omissions, not its established doctrines. (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Ongoing theorizing, not finished Theory, is what Cultural Studies requires
#expands(0.70) - Scholastic philosophy operates within orthodoxy and uses syllogistic reasoning
#contradicts(0.70) — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 1658 - Cultural Studies advanced through external ruptures rather than internal evolution
#expands(0.60) - Abstracted theory that loses local situatedness betrays Cultural Studies’ core method.
#expands(0.55)