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16 produkter
Beyond hegemony
Towards a new philosophy of political legitimacy
Häftad, 2010
371 kr
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Since the Enlightenment, liberal democrat governments in Europe and North America have been compelled to secure the legitimacy of their authority by constructing rational states whose rationality is based on modern forms of law. The first serious challenge to liberal democratic practices of legal …
Sovereign states or political communities?
Civil society and contemporary politics
Häftad, 2011
371 kr
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This book explores the ideas, meaning and history of civil society. It considers the role civil society played in the 1989 revolutions and in new social movements, as well as its relationship with the state and the economy. Distinguishing between security and freedom, the book illustrates how the …
History of the Left from Marx to the Present
Theoretical Perspectives
Inbunden, 2007
2423 kr
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There are many ways of presenting the history of the left. In this concise and cogent survey, Darrow Schecter avoids trivializing struggles of the last 150 years, focusing on Marx's theories and the diverse struggles for human emancipation that have characterized European and world history since …
History of the Left from Marx to the Present
Theoretical Perspectives
Häftad, 2007
717 kr
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There are many ways of presenting the history of the left. In this concise and cogent survey, Darrow Schecter avoids trivializing struggles of the last 150 years, focusing on Marx's theories and the diverse struggles for human emancipation that have characterized European and world history since …
Critique of Instrumental Reason from Weber to Habermas
Inbunden, 2010
2138 kr
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This book analyses the critique of instrumental reason from Weber through to the present day. Weber constitutes the starting point because he represents a key moment of theoretical and political transition. Whereas Enlightenment thinkers such as Kant, Rousseau and Hegel had a profound faith in the …
Critical Theory in the Twenty-First Century
Häftad, 2013
518 kr
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Critical Theory in the Twenty-First Century provides a thorough overview of critical theory, looking at its history and shortfalls.First, the book explains the developments from the Frankfurt School and from more recent schools of thought, including Derrida, Deleuze, deconstruction, and …
Critical Theory and Film
Rethinking Ideology Through Film Noir
Av Fabio Vighi, Darrow Schecter
Inbunden, 2012
1996 kr
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Critical Theory and Film brings together critical theory and film to enhance the critical potential of both. The book focuses on the Frankfurt School, most notably the works of Adorno and Horkheimer, as well as associated thinkers.It seeks to demonstrate that cinema can help critical theory …
Critique of Instrumental Reason from Weber to Habermas
Häftad, 2012
561 kr
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What different kinds of reason are possible, and which ones are the most appropriate for a legitimate, as opposed to a merely legitimated state?The book opens with an analysis of Weber as a figure who marks a key moment of sociological transition. Weber articulates a distinctly different view to …
Critical Theory in the Twenty-First Century
E-bok, 2013
561 kr
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Critical Theory in the Twenty-First Century provides a thorough overview of critical theory, looking at its history and shortfalls.First, the book explains the developments from the Frankfurt School and from more recent schools of thought, including Derrida, Deleuze, deconstruction, and …
Critique of Instrumental Reason from Weber to Habermas
E-bok, 2010
589 kr
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What different kinds of reason are possible, and which ones are the most appropriate for a legitimate, as opposed to a merely legitimated state?The book opens with an analysis of Weber as a figure who marks a key moment of sociological transition. Weber articulates a distinctly different view to …
Critical Theory in the Twenty-First Century
Inbunden, 2013
2138 kr
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Critical Theory in the Twenty-First Century provides a thorough overview of critical theory, looking at its history and shortfalls.First, the book explains the developments from the Frankfurt School and from more recent schools of thought, including Derrida, Deleuze, deconstruction, and …
Critical Theory in the Twenty-First Century
E-bok, 2013
561 kr
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Critical Theory in the Twenty-First Century provides a thorough overview of critical theory, looking at its history and shortfalls.First, the book explains the developments from the Frankfurt School and from more recent schools of thought, including Derrida, Deleuze, deconstruction, and …
Critical Theory and the Critique of Political Economy
On Subversion and Negative Reason
Av Werner Bonefeld, Darrow Schecter
Häftad, 2016
561 kr
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Subversive thought is none other than the cunning of reason when confronted with a social reality in which the poor and miserable are required to sustain the illusion of fictitious wealth. Yet, this subsidy is absolutely necessary in existing society, to prevent its implosion. The critique of …
Critical Theory and Disability
A Phenomenological Approach
Av Teodor Mladenov, Darrow Schecter
Häftad, 2016
561 kr
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Critical Theory and Disability explores social and ontological issues encountered by present-day disabled people, applying ideas from disability studies and phenomenology. It focuses on disabling contexts in order to highlight and criticize the ontological assumptions of contemporary society, …
Critical Theory and Sociological Theory
On Late Modernity and Social Statehood
Inbunden, 2019
1201 kr
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Democracy in the twenty-first century faces a number of major challenges, populism, neoliberalism and globalisation being three of the most prominent. This book examines such challenges by investigating how the conditions of democratic statehood have been altered at several key historical intervals …
Critical Theory and Sociological Theory
On Late Modernity and Social Statehood
Häftad, 2021
371 kr
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Democracy in the twenty-first century faces a number of major challenges, populism, neoliberalism and globalisation being three of the most prominent. This book examines such challenges by investigating how the conditions of democratic statehood have been altered at several key historical intervals …
