Immanent Critique in Thucydides’ Mytilenean Debate and Melian Dialogue

Immanent critique and Islam: Anthropological reflections

This article offers an anthropological outline of immanent critique in Islamic traditions. In addressing the question – what is immanent critique? – it dwells on the interrelationships amongst the Enlightenment’s notion of reason, critique, and Islam. My main contention is that to construe the Western notion of critique derived from Enlightenment’s specific conceptualization of reason as critiq...

Constructive debate and dialogue in nursing.

Genealogy as Immanent Critique: Working from the Inside FORTHCOMING IN ALISON

– only as persons of this conscience do we still feel ourselves related to the German rectitude and piety of millennia, even if as its most questionable and final descendents, we immoralists, we godless ones of today, indeed even in a certain sense as its heirs, as the executors of its innermost will …

Thucydides and Democratic Peace

Thucydides is an important author for any discussion of the possibilities for an ancient Greek democratic peace. Though democratic peace did not, in fact, seem to function in classical Greece, a number of passages in Thucydides show that an affinity did exist among democratic factions and city-states in the context of hostile competition between democratic and oligarchic regimes. Thucydides rem...

DEBATE: Homeopathic treatment of chronic headache: a critique

The author critically reviews a randomised controlled trial by homeopathy for chronic headache and an observational follow-up studyof the same patient cohort.The results showed no di¡erence between homeopathy and placebo. The author believes that theseresultswere a‘falsenegative’due to inadequatehomeopathic treatment, particularly relating to the duration of symptoms and handling of homeopathic...