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dialecticGreek term, originally associated with the philosopher Socrates' method of argument through dialogue and conversation. Hegelian dialectic, named after the German philosopher Hegel, refers to an interpretive method in which the contradiction between a thesis and its antithesis is resolved through synthesis. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Advocates of action research believe that action research can lead to praxis, a point in which theory and practice are dialectically related (Carr & Kemmis, 1986). Comparable to Morrison's notion that blackness functions dialectically and pejoratively in bolstering constructions of whiteness, arguably, Gaines's use of the homosexual black man is analogous to the ways that Hemingway, Melville, and other white American male literary forefathers configured the Africanist presence as abject and other. Using what Bakhtin refers to as the "authoritative word", adult culture resists dialectically what it "perceives to be a challenge to its authority" (Ashcroft & Salter 1994, p. |
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