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Creativity and Critique
Subjectivity and Agency in Touraine and Ricoeur
Inbunden, 2007
1694 kr
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Many commentators have noted the fertile new intellectual period Critique of Modernity opened up in the social theory of Alain Touraine, but until now its innovations have not been the subject of a sustained analysis. This work locates the wellsprings of Touraine’s renewed interpretive power in an …
Recognition, Work, Politics
New Directions in French Critical Theory
Av Jean-Philippe Dr. Deranty, Danielle Petherbridge m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
2629 kr
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The essays in Recognition, Work, Politics indicate the diversity and continuity of contemporary French critical theory concerning both the question of politics and its philosophical articulation. These themes are approached and addressed from directions that include post-structuralism, the paradigm …
Castoriadis: Psyche, Society, Autonomy
Av Jeff Klooger
Inbunden, 2009
3076 kr
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This book is a critical exploration of the philosophical underpinnings and implications of Cornelius Castoriadis’ reflections on Being, society and the self. The book introduces the reader to the main concepts of Castoriadis’ work, but goes further to uncover the fundamental philosophical issues …
Beyond Communication. A Critical Study of Axel Honneth's Social Philosophy
Inbunden, 2009
4017 kr
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Few thinkers have made such significant contribution to social and political thinking over the last three decades as Axel Honneth. His theory of recognition has rejuvenated the political vocabulary and allowed Critical Theory to move beyond Habermas. Beyond Communication is the first full-scale …
Beyond Friend and Foe
The Politics of Critical Theory
Av Volker Heins
Inbunden, 2011
2413 kr
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This book provides a thematic account of the changing political philosophy of critical theorists from Adorno to Habermas and Honneth. In addition to teasing out unexplored elements of political thought from the writings of important Frankfurt School intellectuals and their successors, the book …
Culture, Science, Society
The Constitution of Cultural Modernity
Inbunden, 2011
4499 kr
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The closely interrelated essays in this volume address the question of the internal dynamism of the high culture of modernity in its paradoxical constitution as the complementary unity of strict opposites: the sciences (philosophy included) and the arts. Special attention is paid to the internal …
Recognition and Social Ontology
Av Heikki Ikaheimo, Arto Laitinen
Inbunden, 2011
3183 kr
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This unique collection focuses on the unexamined connections between two contemporary, intensively debated lines of inquiry: Hegel-inspired theories of recognition (Anerkennung) and analytical social ontology. These lines address the roots of human sociality from different conceptual perspectives …
Axel Honneth: Critical Essays
With a Reply by Axel Honneth
Inbunden, 2011
3305 kr
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Axel Honneth: Critical Essays brings together a collection of critical interpretations on the work of Axel Honneth, from his earliest writings on philosophical anthropology, his reappraisal of critical theory and critique of post-structuralism, to the development and extension of the theory of …
New Philosophies of Labour
Work and the Social Bond
Av Nicholas Smith, Jean-Philippe Dr. Deranty
Inbunden, 2011
3078 kr
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One of the most vexing questions in contemporary political philosophy and social theory concerns the framework within which to undertake a normatively well-grounded, empirically attuned critique of capitalist society. This volume takes the debate forward by proposing a new framework that emphasizes …
Aesthetic Capitalism
Av Eduardo de la Fuente, Peter Murphy
Inbunden, 2014
2192 kr
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Aesthetic Capitalism debates the social aesthetics of contemporary economic processes. The book connects modern cultural dynamics with the workings of contemporary capitalism. It explores art and the new spirit of capitalism; visual culture and the experience economy; aesthetics and organisations; …
Socioaesthetics
Ambience – Imaginary
Av Anders Michelsen, Frederik Tygstrup
Inbunden, 2015
2196 kr
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Aesthetics is no longer the preserve of art historians and philosophers of art. Changes in society, culture, economy, urban dynamics and everyday life, push us towards considering the aesthetic components of traditionally non-aesthetic domains. Today it is not only legitimate but necessary to query …
Cornelius Castoriadis and Radical Democracy
Inbunden, 2014
2531 kr
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Cornelius Castoriadis and the Project of Radical Autonomy analyses the philosophy of Greek-born French philosopher Cornelius Castoriadis. A leading member of the influential revolutionary group, Socialism or Barbarism in France, Castoriadis analysed contemporary political subjectivity and culture …
Camus, Philosophe
To Return to our Beginnings
Inbunden, 2015
3274 kr
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Camus, Philosophe: To Return to our Beginnings is the first book on Camus to read Camus in light of, and critical dialogue with, subsequent French and European philosophy. It argues that, while not an academic philosopher, Albert Camus was a philosophe in more profound senses looking back to …
Camus, Philosophe
To Return to our Beginnings
Häftad, 2016
667 kr
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Camus, Philosophe: To Return to Our Beginnings is the first book on Camus to read Camus in light of, and critical dialogue with, subsequent French and European philosophy. It argues that, while not an academic philosopher, Albert Camus was a philosophe in more profound senses looking back to …
After Thoughts: Beyond the ‘System’
Political and Cultural Lectures by Agnes Heller
Av Agnes Heller†, John Edward Grumley
Inbunden, 2019
1892 kr
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This book is a collection of recent lectures by Agnes Heller, delivered all over the world. These essays are edited and introduced by the author of the most significant intellectual biography of her work, John Grumley. In these lectures, Heller engages one of her greatest strengths: to discover …
Analysing Darkness and Light: Dystopias and Beyond
Inbunden, 2023
2322 kr
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The book situates itself in the fields of philosophy, political theory, aesthetics and theories of art, linking its discussions of fictional dystopias to debates on ongoing crises. It asks: Are dystopias a useful tool for imagining ways out of sombre situations or do they prevent us from engaging …
Stranger Cities: Australian Creation and the Ambidextrous Mind, a Profile of Portal Modernity
Av Peter Murphy
Inbunden, 2023
2544 kr
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Stranger Cities explores the metaphysics of Australian society and the clash between its competing strands of romantic culture and classic civilization. The social expression, artistic resonance, economic significance, civic character, historic phases, mythic representations, creative antinomies, …
Justice: Deconstruction and Hermeneutics
Interviews with Contemporary Thinkers
Inbunden, 2025
2119 kr
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The pursuit of justice is an unending journey. It is the name of an impending promise that we always pray for, hope for, and sincerely desire but cannot quite see its fulfilment. Justice always encourages openness to the future and refuses to be confined to a particular definition. It occurs at …
Salvaging Modernity: A Social Contract for the Age of Permacrisis
Av Domonkos Sik
Inbunden, 2025
1982 kr
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Modernity is stuck on an unsustainable course, which poses a challenge to both critical theory and praxis. My book develops a comprehensive diagnosis of the times by reviewing the rapidly growing field of critical theories that focus on structural paradoxes and social suffering. To address the …
Freedom to Remain Silent
The Right to Make Qualified Contributions to the Public Sphere
Inbunden, 2026
2737 kr
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The role of silence in democratic settings should be rehabilitated. Democratic theories are concerned with mechanisms and institutions that counteract silence in society. As a supplement to this, it is first demonstrated that we must not forget how silence determines the significance and meanings …
Thinking with Castoriadis: Antipodean Essays
Inbunden, 2025
1959 kr
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Thinking with Castoriadis explores the work of the Greek-French philosopher Cornelius Castoriadis who developed a ground-breaking philosophy of imagination and social creation—a theory of how societies come into being. The volume explores the many-sided implications of Castoriadis’ social thought …
Philosophical and Cultural Theories of Music
Av Eduardo de la Fuente, Peter Murphy
Inbunden, 2010
2909 kr
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Music is a ubiquitous and hard to grasp cultural form. It is semiotically and aesthetically open-ended; yet even a 'non-musical' person is able to follow the basics of rhythmic structure and flow. Its presence in social and cultural life is further complicated by its multiple forms of existence - …
