philosophical movements in socio-historical context
 

taught by  Dr Helena Sheehan

in  School of Communications   at Dublin City University
 

 

online texts

• The rise of the repressed in the history of knowledge

• The end of history ? grand narratives of our time

• Marxism and the philosophy of science: a critical history

some characters in the story
• Trofim Denisovich Lysenko
• John Desmond Bernal
• John Burton Sanderson Haldane
• Christopher Caudwell
some episodes in the story
• The October Revolution
• The Intellectuals and the Purges
• The Comintern: early days and high hopes
• The Comintern: dissolution and disillusion

• The fate of marxism in the 1990s

• Portrait of a marxist as a young nun

• Has the red flag fallen ?

• European socialism: a blind alley or a long and winding road ?

• Philosophers, scientists  and the unity of science

• A crisis of scientific rationality