Otto Laske
06/29 – Limitations of Frankfurt School Hauptseminars From a Perspective of the Dialectical Thought Form Framework (DTF)
Download article as PDF Otto Laske While resurgent interest in the writings of the Frankfurt School, especially Adorno, is over-focused on the ideological content of his writings, a much more…
4/22 – A New Approach to Dialog: Teaching the Dialectical Thought Form Framework – Part I: Foundations of Real-World Dialog
Download article as PDF Otto Laske If a simple epigram could sum up what is essential to thinking dialectically it should be that it is the art of thinking the…
4/22 – A New Approach to Dialog: Teaching the Dialectical Thought Form Framework – Part II: Dialoging Tools of Dialectic
Download article as PDF Otto Laske Part II: Dialoging Tools of Dialectic Using a Short Table of Thought Forms The reader now realizes that in order to understand the world…
Download article as PDF Otto Laske Part III: Teaching Programs for, and Applications of, Dialogical Dialectic How to Develop a Teaching Program for Dialectical Thinking Teaching dialectical thinking in…
Download article as PDF Otto Laske “The major problems in the world (today) are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think.” – Gregory…
8/15 — From “Developmental Theory” to a Dialogical and Dialectical Epistemology: Introducing Three Modes of Structured Dialog with Clients
Download article as PDF Otto Laske In this text, I focus on the central relevance of interviewing skills in being able to lead a dialog in the structured way made…
Download article as PDF Otto Laske To memory of social critic Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979) Abstract In this paper, I am taking a critical, socio-historical perspective on what is presented today…
Living Through Four Eras of Cognitive Development
Download article as PDF Otto Laske Abstract In this paper, I outline the graspable existential meaning of human cognitive development. By “existential” I refer not simply to the epistemological positioning…
Feature Article: Change and Crisis in Dialectical Thinking: On the Need to Think Again When Getting Involved with Change
Download article as PDF Otto Laske Abstract I explore the concepts of “change” and “crisis” in order to put issues important in the current recession into perspective from the point…
Leadership Coaching Tip: From an Adult-Developmental Perspective
Download article as PDF Interdevelopmental Institute (IDM), www.interdevelopmentals.org I understand “Coaching Tips” as highly generic suggestions thought to apply to all kinds of clients. From an adult-developmental perspective, such suggestions should…