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Critical theory in the twenty-first century /

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 post-struct...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schecter, Darrow
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.
Colección:Critical theory and contemporary society.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; HalfTitle; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; (I); (II); 1 Dialectics, de-naturalization and social differentiation (I): From the public sphere to the emergence of civil society; Natural rights, the state of nature and political philosophy in question; Social differentiation and conditions of knowledge external to the subject; 2 Dialectics, de-naturalization and social differentiation (II): From the cognitive content of aesthetics to critical theory; Philosophy, aesthetics and cognition
  • Possible paths towards a rational society.
  • From 'correspondences' to Wechselwirkungen and constellations3 Critical theory and mediated non-identity; Mediated unity between liberal abstraction and populist mobilization; Towards a sociological dialectics of non-identity; 4 Critical theory and political theory; Dysfunctional representation and instrumental legitimacy; Blocked transitions from quantity to quality; 5 New paths beyond the Marx-Freud synthesis; On the possibility of cross-systemic operations and de-centred mediations; Critical theory in the twenty-first century: Differentiation and difference in sociological perspective.
  • Conclusion: The mediations of societyBibliography; Index.