Lessons in Critical Theory; Marx, Benjamin, Braudel, Bakhtin, Thompson, Ginzburg and Wallerstein

ISBN-13: 9781433169113 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 166 str.

Robin Myers; Carlos Antonio Aguirre Rojas

Opis

A review of fundamental lessons in critical theory and critical thought developed by the some of the most important social thinkers of our age: Karl Marx, Walter Benjamin, Fernand Braudel, Mikhail Bakhtin, E. P. Thompson, Carlo Ginzburg, and Immanuel Wallerstein.

Spis treści

Introduction Karl Marx's Lessons on the Universe of Contemporary Politics Walter Benjamin's Lessons on the Present and Future of Art Fernand Braudel's Lessons on Historical Time Mikhail Bakhtin's Lessons on the Codes of Popular Culture E. P. Thompson's Lessons on Rebellion and the Moral Economy of the Crowd Carlo Ginzburg's Lessons on the Limitations of Modern Bourgeois Rationality Immanuel Wallerstein's Lessons on Explaining the Contemporary World

O autorze

Carlos Antonio Aguirre Rojas is a full-time researcher in the Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. He specializes in the theory of history in the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries and in the new antisystemic movements in Latin America.