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Interrogating Modernity
Debates with Hans Blumenberg
Av Agata Bielik-Robson, Daniel Whistler
Häftad, 2021
1532 kr
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Interrogating Modernity returns to Hans Blumenberg's epochal The Legitimacy of the Modern Age as a springboard to interrogate questions of modernity, secularisation, technology and political legitimacy in the fields of political theology, history of ideas, political theory, art theory, history of …
Rationalism of Georg Lukács
Av J. Kelemen
Inbunden, 2013
552 kr
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The Rationalism of Georg Lukács is a collection of essays and engaging scholarship which uncovers new dimensions of the philosopher's work. The relevance of Lukacs's ideas should be seen in the light of a sharp decline in critical thought as well the continued need to rehabilitate a thinker that …
American Democracy
Selected Essays on Theory, Practice, and Critique
Av P. Green
Inbunden, 2014
552 kr
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The book examines the problems that plague contemporary American democracy. Written from the standpoint of democratic theory, and from a progressive point of view, the book explores different facets of American democratic culture and its various deficits – deficits that can lead to the crippling of …
Radical Intellectuals and the Subversion of Progressive Politics
The Betrayal of Politics
Av Michael J. Thompson, Gregory Smulewicz-Zucker
Inbunden, 2015
552 kr
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Radical Intellectuals and the Subversion of Progressive Politics is a challenge to contemporary radical politics and political thought. This collection of essays critiques the dominant trends and figures on the left that have distorted the legacy of progressive politics, arguing that they have …
Against Orthodoxy
Social Theory and Its Discontents
Av S. Aronowitz
Inbunden, 2015
552 kr
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The book contains groundbreaking and immersive essays on crucial 20th Century scholars on social theory, discussed and analyzed from a radical, critical theory perspective. Aronowitz provides his unique and lauded critical eye toward the leading thinkers of our age, crafting an immersive set of …
Against Orthodoxy
Social Theory and Its Discontents
Av S. Aronowitz
Häftad, 2015
552 kr
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The book contains groundbreaking and immersive essays on crucial 20th Century scholars on social theory, discussed and analyzed from a radical, critical theory perspective. Aronowitz provides his unique and lauded critical eye toward the leading thinkers of our age, crafting an immersive set of …
Philosophy and the Politics of Animal Liberation
Inbunden, 2016
1096 kr
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This edited collection testifies to the fact that the animal liberation movement is now entering its political phase, after a period dominated by ethical approaches that undermined the paradigm of human supremacy and demanded justice for nonhuman beings. The contributors of this book collectively …
Palgrave Handbook of Critical Theory
Inbunden, 2017
2730 kr
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This handbook is the only major survey of critical theory from philosophical, political, sociological, psychological and historical vantage points. It emphasizes not only on the historical and philosophical roots of critical theory, but also its current themes and trends as well as future …
Between Politics and Antipolitics
Thinking About Politics After 9/11
Av Dick Howard
Inbunden, 2016
1096 kr
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This book traces a dialectic relationship between “politics” and “antipolitics,” the first, as used here, being akin to philosophy as an activity of open inquiry, plural democracy, and truth-finding, and the latter in the realm of ideology, technocracy, and presupposed certainties. It returns back …
American Democracy
Selected Essays on Theory, Practice, and Critique
Av P. Green
Häftad, 2014
552 kr
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The book examines the problems that plague contemporary American democracy. Written from the standpoint of democratic theory, and from a progressive point of view, the book explores different facets of American democratic culture and its various deficits – deficits that can lead to the crippling of …
Social Ontology of Capitalism
Av Daniel Krier, Mark P. Worrell
Inbunden, 2016
1532 kr
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This book addresses core questions about the nature and structure of contemporary capitalism and the social dynamics and countervailing forces that shape modern life. From a robust and self-consciously sociological framework, it analyzes and interrogates such issues as the nature of the social, the …
Political and Cultural Perceptions of George Orwell
British and American Views
Av Ian Williams
Inbunden, 2017
697 kr
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This book analyzes George Orwell’s politics and their reception across both sides of the Atlantic. It considers Orwell’s place in the politics of his native Britain and his reception in the USA, where he has had some of his most fervent emulators, exegetists, and detractors. Written by an ex …
Between Politics and Antipolitics
Thinking About Politics After 9/11
Av Dick Howard
Häftad, 2017
1096 kr
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This book traces a dialectic relationship between “politics” and “antipolitics,” the first, as used here, being akin to philosophy as an activity of open inquiry, plural democracy, and truth-finding, and the latter in the realm of ideology, technocracy, and presupposed certainties. It returns back …
Social Ontology of Capitalism
Av Daniel Krier, Mark P. Worrell
Häftad, 2018
1096 kr
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This book addresses core questions about the nature and structure of contemporary capitalism and the social dynamics and countervailing forces that shape modern life. From a robust and self-consciously sociological framework, it analyzes and interrogates such issues as the nature of the social, the …
Marxian Legacy
The Search for the New Left
Av Dick Howard
Inbunden, 2019
824 kr
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The Marxian Legacy, first published in 1977 and released in a second edition in 1988, was and remains distinct in its view of Marxian theory as 'critique, ' aware of its own origins and limitations and self-conscious about its own historical rootedness in changing social and political conditions. …
Axel Honneth and the Critical Theory of Recognition
Häftad, 2019
1423 kr
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The critical theory of the Frankfurt School has undergone numerous and at times fundamental changes over the last ninety years. Since the late 1960s, it has been characterized primarily by Jürgen Habermas’s “communicative turn” and a focus on normative foundations. Today, that “second generation” …
Lukács’s Phenomenology of Capitalism
Reification Revalued
Häftad, 2018
933 kr
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This book offers a radical new interpretation of Georg Lukács’s History and Class Consciousness, showing for the first time how the philosophical framework for his analysis of society was laid in the drafts of a philosophy of art that he planned but never completed before he converted to Marxism. …
Power in Deliberative Democracy
Norms, Forums, Systems
Av Nicole Curato, Marit Hammond m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
987 kr
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Deliberative democracy is an embattled political project. It is accused of political naiveté for it only talks about power without taking power. Others, meanwhile, take issue with deliberative democracy’s dominance in the field of democratic theory and practice. An industry of consultants, …
Postmodern Theory and Progressive Politics
Toward a New Humanism
Häftad, 2019
769 kr
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This book explores the origins of the academic culture wars of the late 20th century and examines their lasting influence on the humanities and progressive politics. It puts us in a position to ask this question: what to make now of those furious debates over postmodernism, multiculturalism, …
Hegel, Marx, and the Necessity and Freedom Dialectic
Marxist-Humanism and Critical Theory in the United States
Häftad, 2019
552 kr
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This book provides close readings of primary texts to analyze the linkage between G.W.F. Hegel’s philosophy and Karl Marx’s critical social theory of necessity and freedom. This is important for three reasons: first, to understand the significance of the changing relationships of work, society, and …
Interrogating Modernity
Debates with Hans Blumenberg
Av Agata Bielik-Robson, Daniel Whistler
Inbunden, 2020
1532 kr
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Interrogating Modernity returns to Hans Blumenberg's epochal The Legitimacy of the Modern Age as a springboard to interrogate questions of modernity, secularisation, technology and political legitimacy in the fields of political theology, history of ideas, political theory, art theory, history of …
Marxian Legacy
The Search for the New Left
Av Dick Howard
Häftad, 2020
606 kr
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The Marxian Legacy, first published in 1977 and released in a second edition in 1988, was and remains distinct in its view of Marxian theory as 'critique, ' aware of its own origins and limitations and self-conscious about its own historical rootedness in changing social and political conditions. …
Pathology Diagnosis and Social Research
New Applications and Explorations
Av Neal Harris
Inbunden, 2021
1096 kr
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The diagnosis of social pathologies has long been a central concern for social researchers working within, and on the peripheries of, Critical Theory. As this volume will elaborate, the pathology diagnosing imagination enables a “thicker” form of social critique, fostering research that pushes …
Pathology Diagnosis and Social Research
New Applications and Explorations
Av Neal Harris
Häftad, 2022
1096 kr
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The diagnosis of social pathologies has long been a central concern for social researchers working within, and on the peripheries of, Critical Theory. As this volume will elaborate, the pathology diagnosing imagination enables a “thicker” form of social critique, fostering research that pushes …
Thinking Beyond Neoliberalism
Alternative Societies, Transition, and Resistance
Inbunden, 2021
1423 kr
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This book brings together leading academics and activists to address the possibilities for qualitative social change beyond neoliberalism, providing introductory essays on alternative societies, transition, and resistance. Bringing together discussions on universal basic income, actually existing …
Thinking Beyond Neoliberalism
Alternative Societies, Transition, and Resistance
Häftad, 2022
1015 kr
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This book brings together leading academics and activists to address the possibilities for qualitative social change beyond neoliberalism, providing introductory essays on alternative societies, transition, and resistance. Bringing together discussions on universal basic income, actually existing …
Critical Theory Today
On the Limits and Relevance of an Intellectual Tradition
Av Denis C. Bosseau, Tom Bunyard
Inbunden, 2022
1423 kr
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This book considers whether critical theory is up to the task of addressing our contemporary crises, including the question of ‘post-truth’ discourse, psycho-social pathologies, the rise of right-wing populism, the Covid-19 pandemic, the anticolonial deficit in critical theory, and the neo-liberal …
Critical Theory Today
On the Limits and Relevance of an Intellectual Tradition
Av Denis C. Bosseau, Tom Bunyard
Häftad, 2023
1423 kr
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This book considers whether critical theory is up to the task of addressing our contemporary crises, including the question of ‘post-truth’ discourse, psycho-social pathologies, the rise of right-wing populism, the Covid-19 pandemic, the anticolonial deficit in critical theory, and the neo-liberal …
Intellectuals in Politics and Academia
Culture in the Age of Hype
Inbunden, 2022
1314 kr
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This book addresses the fate of intellectuals in modern culture and politics. Russell Jacoby’s seminal The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of Academe (1987, 2000) introduced the term “public intellectual” and gave rise to heated controversy. Here Jacoby assesses contemporary public …
Intellectuals in Politics and Academia
Culture in the Age of Hype
Häftad, 2023
1314 kr
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This book addresses the fate of intellectuals in modern culture and politics. Russell Jacoby’s seminal The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of Academe (1987, 2000) introduced the term “public intellectual” and gave rise to heated controversy. Here Jacoby assesses contemporary public …
