HISTORY OF IDEAS
WORLD VIEWS
Dr
Helena Sheehan School
of Communications Dublin
City University
AIMS
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to analyse the major intellectual
movements of the contemporary era in socio-historical context
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to highlight basic philosophical assumptions
at the foundations of academic disciplines and of political ideologies
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to focus on world views / grand narratives
and their roots in socio-historical experience
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to reflect upon the contemporary crisis
in world view and renunciation of grand narratives and its roots in contemporary
experience
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to examine various social, political and
economic positions in terms of their most basic philosophical assumptions
