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...obligation of the social sciences is to make a student more aware of questions of responsibility in society, and not in the mechanics of the artificial disciplines created to study it. This is not done by teaching old dogmas. Social analysis is often intended and all too frequently read as dogma: that is its principal flaw...
COOKED GOOSE. A few years after Brandt became mayor of West Berlin in 1957, however, he began to question the validity of much of the West's unbending cold war dogma and its unrealistic slogans about rolling back Communism. Journalist Egon Bahr, who was his press aide and more recently his chief foreign policy adviser, began to propound the thesis of Wandel durch Annaherung (change through rapprochement), which advanced the then revolutionary idea that West Germany could influence developments within East Germany by establishing closer contacts with it. It was a concept that subsequently was expanded to include the entire...
Adds Psychoanalyst Rollo May: "Even the growing frequency of divorce, no matter how sobering the problems it raises, has the positive psychological effect of making it harder for couples to rationalize a bad marriage by the dogma that they are 'stuck' with each other. The possibility of finding a new lover makes it more necessary for us to accept the responsibility of choosing the one we do have if we stay with...
CINEMATIC RADICALISM offers such endless varieties of possible forms that it will always resist the elevation of a single possibility- "militant cinema." for example- to the status of dogma. What matters most is not the particular form, but the necessity of creating the awareness of form, and, from there, of pointing out the limitations of content, and, finally, of generating criticism. Film remains film (not dogma: truth and lies 24 times a second), and the experience of film becomes process rather than product. The forms for accomplishing this alienation from the sacred reality of art cannot be prescribed: if sacred...
...solution is not tokenism-a woman here and a woman there for the moment and it is not the radical dogma that man is the oppressor or the boss and woman is the oppressed, or the worker," she concluded...