The simultaneously empirical and transcendental nature of emancipatory knowledge becomes the foundation stone of critical theory.
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Habermas's epistemology synthesizes these two traditions by showing that phenomenological and transcendental analysis can be subsumed under a materialist theory of social evolution, while the materialist theory makes sense only as part of a quasi-transcendental theory of emancipatory knowledge that is the self-reflection of cultural evolution.
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Professor Collins s current research interests lie in ( 1 ) investigating the actual and / or potential interconnections between critical race theory and American pragmatism; ( 2 ) theorizing intersectionality, namely, analyzing how race, class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity and nation mutually construct one another as concepts and as social phenomena; ( 3 ) exploring epistemologies of emancipatory knowledges, for example, ideologies of nationalism and feminism as well as influential knowledges of popular culture and everyday life; and ( 4 ) examining how the status of Black male and female youth sheds light on broader social processes such as globalization, transnationalism, class inequalities, racism and gender inequities.
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