Lukács philosophical criticism of Marxist revisionism proposed an intellectual return to Marxist method.

However, since the teachers associated with perennialism are in a sense the authors of the Western masterpieces themselves, these teachers may be open to student criticism through the associated Socratic method, which, if carried out as true dialogue, is a balance between students, including the teacher promoting the discussion.

The concept first popularized by Karl Popper, who, in his philosophical criticism of the popular positivist view of the scientific method, concluded that a hypothesis, proposition, or theory talks about the observable only if it is falsifiable.

The Religionsgeschichtliche Schule appeared at a time when scholarly study of the Bible and church history was flourishing in Germany and elsewhere ( see higher criticism, also called the historical-critical method ).

Dewey's classification system, although under heavy criticism of late, still remains the prevailing method of classification used in the United States.

manuscript studies ), paleography, philology ( especially textual criticism ), style criticism, historiography ( the choice of historical method ), musical analysis ( the analysis of music in order to find " inner coherence "), and iconography.

It follows that another element of philosophical method, common in the work of nearly all philosophers, is philosophical criticism.

A related study method known as higher criticism studies the authorship, date, and provenance of text to place such text in historical context.

Methodological rhetorical criticism is typically done by deduction, where a broad method is used to examine a specific case of rhetoric.

* Cluster criticism – a method developed by Kenneth Burke that seeks to help the critic understand the rhetor's worldview.

* Generic criticism – a method that assumes certain situations call for similar needs and expectations within the audience, therefore calling for certain types of rhetoric.

A criticism of this method is that " it requires two polls, and gives opportunity for intrigue of various kinds.

* ( c ) the method of suspended judgment, systematic doubt, or criticism that is characteristic of skeptics ( Merriam – Webster ).

Beginning in the 1950s, however, inspired by a landmark study by Dr. Harry E. Houtz, and spurred by Rudolf Flesch's criticism of the absence of phonics instruction ( particularly in his popular book, Why Johnny Can't Read ) phonics resurfaced as a method of teaching reading.

" Wilde later recounted a visit to a local saloon, " where I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across.

Another criticism is that philosophers have used thought experiments ( and other a priori methods ) in areas where empirical science should be the primary method of discovery, as for example, with issues about the mind.

Psychoanalytic literary criticism refers to literary criticism or literary theory which, in method, concept, or form, is influenced by the tradition of psychoanalysis begun by Sigmund Freud.

However, Lacanian scholars have noted that Lacan himself was not interested in literary criticism per se, but in how literature might illustrate a psychoanalytic method or concept.

Such examples showing the relationship of the dialectic method of thinking to the scientific method to a large part negates the criticism of Popper ( see text below ) that the two are mutually exclusive.

manuscript studies ), paleography, philology ( especially textual criticism ), style criticism, historiography ( the choice of historical method ), musical analysis, and iconography.

What is the history of criticism but the history of men attempting to make sense of the manifold elements in art that will not allow themselves to be reduced to a single philosophy or a single aesthetic theory??

Without saying or seeming to say that in portraying the Sartoris and the Compson families Faulkner's chief concern is social criticism, we can say nevertheless that through those families he dramatizes his comment on the planter dynasties as they have existed since the decades before the Civil War.

`` What I'd like you to comment on is the criticism leveled at your Committee ''.

Understanding, as he did, the difficulty of the art of poetry, and believing that the `` only technical criticism worth having in poetry is that of poets '', he felt obliged to insist upon his duty to be hard to please when it came to the review of a book of verse.

Although because of the important achievements of nineteenth century scholars in the field of textual criticism the advance is not so striking as it was in the case of archaeology and place-names, the editorial principles laid down by Stevenson in his great edition of Asser and in his Crawford Charters were a distinct improvement upon those of his predecessors and remain unimproved upon today.

Much criticism has been leveled at this rather forced analogy, but what is equally significant is Adams' complete acceptance of the Biblical record as `` good and trustworthy history ''.

In light of the scholarly reappraisals engendered by the higher criticism this is a most remarkable statement, particularly coming from one who was well known for his antifundamentalist views.

This is no criticism of them, as they obviously cannot get a half-hour program into a fifteen-minute news summary.

Average consumer is becoming more sophisticated regarding product and advertising claims, partly because of widespread criticism of such assertions.

most of the rest is medieval or humanist or part of an old tradition of social criticism.

It is of course useful to have a sovereign cause on one's social criticism, for it makes diagnosis and prescription much easier than they might otherwise be.

Industry's main criticism of the Navy's antisubmarine effort is that it cannot determine where any one company or industry can apply its skills and know-how.

His famous criticism of brother Henry's `` third style '' is surely as subtly, even elegantly, worded an analysis of the latter's intricate air castles as Henry himself could ever have produced.

Of course, the well-received revivals last longer than the others, and that further reminds us that the Comedie is not insensitive to criticism.

" f one regards the Modest Proposal simply as a criticism of condition, about all one can say is that conditions were bad and that Swift's irony brilliantly underscored this fact ".

A less confrontational vision of scientific discovery is proposed by Adloff He suggests that hindsight criticism of the early publications should be mitigated by the nascent state of radiochemistry, highlights the prudence of Debierne's claims in the original papers, and notes that nobody can contend that Debierne's substance did not contain actinium.

" American shot " is a translation of a phrase from French film criticism, " plan américain " and refers to a medium-long (" knee ") film shot of a group of characters, who are arranged so that all are visible to the camera.

The criticism of Paneloux, is that he, unlike Tarrou, has lost his faith in humanity.

Some say that literary criticism is a subset of literary theory.

Use of the term to describe writers, for example, is certainly valid, but less common, and mostly restricted to contexts like criticism.

His work in this specific field ( based on the criss-crossing between literary criticism, bibliography, and sociocultural history ) is connected to broader historiographical and methodological interests which deal with the relation between history and other disciplines: philosophy, sociology, anthropology.

Ambrosiaster is the name given to the writer of a commentary on St Paul's epistles, " brief in words but weighty in matter ," and valuable for the criticism of the Latin text of the New Testament.

Another tack of criticism is to notice the disquieting links between democracy and a number of less than appealing features of Athenian life.

Locke also noted that the conscience is influenced by " education, company, and customs of the country ", a criticism mounted by J. L. Mackie, who argued that the conscience should be seen as an " introjection " of other people into an agent's mind.