Hence, Heidegger's concrete philosophy is not so concrete as he defines human beings and their historicity in such a way that omits the real, concrete, struggles in which social actors find themselves.
Jardine argued that Deleuze and Guattari's claim that even women must undergo a "becoming-woman" amounts to a threat to the hard-fought victories of concrete feminist struggle that allowed women to claim a subjectivity in the first place.
Perhaps one could say that while Cooper and Waldby's critique of clinical labor involves a thorough critique of (novel as well as sustained) forms of domination and exploitation, it falls short on the analysis of concrete power struggles.
The Marxist dialectic replaces the idealist Geist of a period working in mysterious ways with the concrete materialist class struggle as the engine of history, constantly present and constituting history as such.
The interview merely reinforced what Fry had witnessed in the city's streets, and in 1940, when the opportunity presented itself to do something concrete in the struggle against Hitler, Fry later wrote, "I volunteered myself".
Workers who had been caught atop the partial collapse of a four-story apartment building under construction in Queens spoke yesterday of a freshly poured floor falling away beneath them, of slogging waist-deep in a sea of wet concrete and of struggling to free a comrade who died, apparently of a heart attack.
Dries Van Noten is a romantic designer, and that may be why the collection he showed on Thursday evening near a concrete underpass seemed to struggle.
I'd look out the window, down into the street, listening to the warm noise rise off the concrete, and I'd struggle to imagine carving out a life here, in what seemed like the other side of the world.
Yet it also hints at limitations: even a school with such striking success at transmitting concrete skills like math struggles to overcome intractable deficits in reading, a complex subject as linked to conditions outside the classroom as in it.
Concrete examples of authors struggling with these issues are provided below, along with a brief overview of the ways in which the authors reached across educational "layers" to inform their design work.
