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The Habermas Handbook
Av Hauke Brunkhorst, Regina Kreide m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1289 kr
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Jurgen Habermas is among the most influential philosophers of our time. His diagnosis of contemporary society and concepts such as the public sphere, communicative rationality, and cosmopolitanism have influenced virtually all academic disciplines, spurred political debates, and shaped intellectual …
Social Acceleration
A New Theory of Modernity
Av Hartmut Rosa
Inbunden, 2013
2215 kr
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Hartmut Rosa advances an account of the temporal structure of society from the perspective of critical theory. He identifies three categories of change in the tempo of modern social life: technological acceleration, evident in transportation, communication, and production; the acceleration of …
Social Acceleration
A New Theory of Modernity
Av Hartmut Rosa
Häftad, 2015
393 kr
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Hartmut Rosa advances an account of the temporal structure of society from the perspective of critical theory. He identifies three categories of change in the tempo of modern social life: technological acceleration, evident in transportation, communication, and production; the acceleration of …
Left-Wing Melancholia
Marxism, History, and Memory
Häftad, 2021
263 kr
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The fall of the Berlin Wall marked the end of the Cold War but also the rise of a melancholic vision of history as a series of losses. For the political left, the cause lost was communism, and this trauma determined how leftists wrote the next chapter in their political struggle and how they have …
Fear of Breakdown
Politics and Psychoanalysis
Häftad, 2019
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
256 kr
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What is behind the upsurge of virulent nationalism and intransigent politics across the globe today? In Fear of Breakdown, Noëlle McAfee uses psychoanalytic theory to explore the subterranean anxieties behind current crises and the ways in which democratic practices can help work through seemingly …
The End of Progress
Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory
Av Amy Allen
Häftad, 2017
306 kr
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While post- and decolonial theorists have thoroughly debunked the idea of historical progress as a Eurocentric, imperialist, and neocolonialist fallacy, many of the most prominent contemporary thinkers associated with the Frankfurt School-Jurgen Habermas, Axel Honneth, and Rainer Forst-have …
Alienation
Av Rahel Jaeggi, Frederick Neuhouser
Häftad, 2016
261 kr
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The Hegelian-Marxist idea of alienation fell out of favor after the postmetaphysical rejection of humanism and essentialist views of human nature. In this book Rahel Jaeggi draws on the Hegelian philosophical tradition, phenomenological analyses grounded in modern conceptions of agency, and recent …
Recognition or Disagreement
A Critical Encounter on the Politics of Freedom, Equality, and Identity
Av Axel Honneth, Jacques Rancière m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
464 kr
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Axel Honneth is best known for his critique of modern society centered on a concept of recognition. Jacques Ranciere has advanced an influential theory of modern politics based on disagreement. Underpinning their thought is a concern for the logics of exclusion and domination that structure …
Contesting the Far Right
A Psychoanalytic and Feminist Critical Theory Approach
Av Claudia Leeb
Häftad, 2024
305 kr
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Why have so many people responded to the insecurity, exploitation, alienation, and isolation of precarity capitalism by supporting the far right? In this timely book, Claudia Leeb argues that psychoanalytic and feminist critical theory illuminates how economic and psychological factors interact to …
The Power of Tolerance
A Debate
Av Wendy Brown, Rainer Forst m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
369 kr
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We invoke the ideal of tolerance in response to conflict, but what does it mean to answer conflict with a call for tolerance? Is tolerance a way of resolving conflicts or a means of sustaining them? Does it transform conflicts into productive tensions, or does it perpetuate underlying power …
The Right to Justification
Elements of a Constructivist Theory of Justice
Av Rainer Forst
Häftad, 2014
614 kr
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Contemporary philosophical pluralism recognizes the inevitability and legitimacy of multiple ethical perspectives and values, making it difficult to isolate the higher-order principles on which to base a theory of justice. Rising up to meet this challenge, Rainer Forst, a leading member of the …
The Power of Tolerance
A Debate
Av Wendy Brown, Rainer Forst m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
690 kr
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We invoke the ideal of tolerance in response to conflict, but what does it mean to answer conflict with a call for tolerance? Is tolerance a way of resolving conflicts or a means of sustaining them? Does it transform conflicts into productive tensions, or does it perpetuate underlying power …
The Politics of Our Selves
Power, Autonomy, and Gender in Contemporary Critical Theory
Av Amy Allen
Inbunden, 2007
2227 kr
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Some critical theorists understand the self as constituted by power relations, while others insist upon the self's autonomous capacities for critical reflection and deliberate self-transformation. Up to now, it has all too often been assumed that these two understandings of the self are …
What Is a People?
Av Alain Badiou, Judith Butler m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
263 kr
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What Is a People? seeks to reclaim "people" as an effective political concept by revisiting its uses and abuses over time. Alain Badiou surveys the idea of a people as a productive force of solidarity and emancipation and as a negative tool of categorization and suppression. Pierre Bourdieu follows …
Horrorism
Naming Contemporary Violence
Häftad, 2011
263 kr
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Words like "terrorism" and "war" no longer encompass the scope of contemporary violence. With this explosive book, Adriana Cavarero, one of the world's most provocative feminist theorists and political philosophers, effectively renders such terms obsolete. She introduces a new word--"horrorism"--to …
Left-Wing Melancholia
Marxism, History, and Memory
Inbunden, 2017
1032 kr
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The fall of the Berlin Wall marked the end of the Cold War but also the rise of a melancholic vision of history as a series of losses. For the political left, the cause lost was communism, and this trauma determined how leftists wrote the next chapter in their political struggle and how they have …
Jürgen Habermas
Public Intellectual and Engaged Critical Theorist
Häftad, 2026
348 kr
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Jürgen Habermas is Germany’s most important postwar philosopher, the leading figure of the Frankfurt School in this period. He is best known for the concept of the public sphere, which forms the basis of his communicative understanding of democratic politics. Habermas has not only theorized the …
Recognition or Disagreement
A Critical Encounter on the Politics of Freedom, Equality, and Identity
Av Axel Honneth, Jacques Rancière m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
860 kr
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Axel Honneth is best known for his critique of modern society centered on a concept of recognition. Jacques Ranciere has advanced an influential theory of modern politics based on disagreement. Underpinning their thought is a concern for the logics of exclusion and domination that structure …
The Politics of Our Selves
Power, Autonomy, and Gender in Contemporary Critical Theory
Av Amy Allen
Häftad, 2013
617 kr
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Some critical theorists understand the self as constituted by power relations, while others insist upon the self's autonomous capacities for critical reflection and deliberate self-transformation. Up to now, it has all too often been assumed that these two understandings of the self are …
Democracy and the Political Unconscious
Inbunden, 2008
1077 kr
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Political philosopher Noelle McAfee proposes a powerful new political theory for our post-9/11 world, in which an old pathology-the repetition compulsion-has manifested itself in a seemingly endless war on terror. McAfee argues that the quintessentially human desire to participate in a world with …
Narrating Evil
A Postmetaphysical Theory of Reflective Judgment
Av Maria Lara
Inbunden, 2007
597 kr
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Conceptions of evil have changed dramatically over time, and though humans continue to commit acts of cruelty against one another, today we possess a clearer, more moral way of analyzing them. In Narrating Evil, Maria Pia Lara explores what has changed in our understanding of evil, why the …
The Force of the Example
Explorations in the Paradigm of Judgment
Inbunden, 2008
803 kr
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During the twentieth century, the view that assertions and norms are valid insofar as they respond to principles independent of all local and temporal contexts came under attack from two perspectives: the partiality of translation and the intersubjective constitution of the self, understood as …
Horrorism
Naming Contemporary Violence
Inbunden, 2008
1032 kr
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Words like "terrorism" and "war" no longer encompass the scope of contemporary violence. With this explosive book, Adriana Cavarero, one of the world's most provocative feminist theorists and political philosophers, effectively renders such terms obsolete. She introduces a new word--"horrorism"--to …
The Racial Discourses of Life Philosophy
Négritude, Vitalism, and Modernity
Av Donna Jones
Häftad, 2011
322 kr
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In the early twentieth century, the life philosophy of Henri Bergson summoned the elan vital, or vital force, as the source of creative evolution. Bergson also appealed to intuition, which focused on experience rather than discursive thought and scientific cognition. Particularly influential for …
Pathologies of Reason
On the Legacy of Critical Theory
Av Axel Honneth
Inbunden, 2009
861 kr
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Axel Honneth has been instrumental in advancing the work of the Frankfurt School of critical theorists, rebuilding their effort to combine radical social and political analysis with rigorous philosophical inquiry. These eleven essays published over the past five years reclaim the relevant themes of …
Pathologies of Reason
On the Legacy of Critical Theory
Av Axel Honneth
Häftad, 2023
221 kr
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Axel Honneth has been instrumental in advancing the work of the Frankfurt School of critical theorists, rebuilding their effort to combine radical social and political analysis with rigorous philosophical inquiry. These eleven essays reclaim the relevant themes of the Frankfurt School, which …
The Right to Justification
Elements of a Constructivist Theory of Justice
Av Rainer Forst
Inbunden, 2011
2227 kr
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Contemporary philosophical pluralism recognizes the inevitability and legitimacy of multiple ethical perspectives and values, making it difficult to isolate the higher-order principles on which to base a theory of justice. Rising up to meet this challenge, Rainer Forst, a leading member of the …
States Without Nations
Citizenship for Mortals
Inbunden, 2009
1203 kr
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As citizens, we hold certain truths to be self-evident: that the rights to own land, marry, inherit property, and especially to assume birthright citizenship should be guaranteed by the state. The laws promoting these rights appear not only to preserve our liberty but to guarantee society remains …
States Without Nations
Citizenship for Mortals
Häftad, 2011
617 kr
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As citizens, we hold certain truths to be self-evident: that the rights to own land, marry, inherit property, and especially to assume birthright citizenship should be guaranteed by the state. The laws promoting these rights appear not only to preserve our liberty but to guarantee society remains …
Media of Reason
A Theory of Rationality
Inbunden, 2012
648 kr
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Matthias Vogel challenges the belief, dominant in contemporary philosophy, that reason is determined solely by our discursive, linguistic abilities as communicative beings. In his view, the medium of language is not the only force of reason. Music, art, and other nonlinguistic forms of …
