Critical theory today : limits and relevance of an intellectual tradition

Critical theory today : limits and relevance of an intellectual tradition / Denis C. Bosseau, Tom Bunyard, editors.

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 man...

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Other Authors: Bosseau, Denis C. (Editor), Bunyard, Tom (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022].
Series:Political philosophy and public purpose.
Subjects:
Critical theory.
critical theory (sociological concept)
Critical theory
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. On The Crisis of Critique: Reformulating the Project of Critical Theory
  • 2. An Anticolonial Deficit in Frankfurt School Critical Theory: A Need for a Decolonial Turn
  • 3. Critical Condition
  • 4. Critical Theory, Political Modernity and Sociological Modernity
  • 5. Erich Fromm & Contemporary Critical Theory
  • 6. The Uses of Marx's Value: Theoretical Concept of Reproduction for Social Reproduction
  • 7. Abandonment or Liberation? Anorexia, Refusal of Treatment, and the Limits of Proceduralism
  • 8. Responding to Precarity: Ethic and Mediation in Butler and Adorno
  • 9. Re-Thinking Social Transformation: Utopian Consciousness within Critical Theory: Covid-19, "The New Normal", and Dreams of a Better Life
  • 10. Beyond Post-Truth: Critical Theory and the Possibility of Radical Enlightenment
  • 11. Totality, Malaise and Agitation: Towards a Critical Theory of Authoritarian Politics
  • 12. Adorno's Exaggerations and the Limits of Social Pathology Critique
  • 13. Towards a Post-Capitalist Horizon of Possibility: Mark Fisher and the Renewal of Critical Social Theory for the Twenty First Century.

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