Social Theory and the Political Imaginary

ISBN-13: 9781032415949 / Twarda / 2023 / 240 str.

Australia) Browne Craig (University of Sydney

Opis

Through engagement with the core problems of social theory as well as recent socio-political thought, this book explores landmark instances of 21^st century social contestation, in order to demonstrate the importance of critical social theory to explaining and understanding contemporary social conflict and social transformation.

Recenzje

'Social Theory and the Political Imaginary will encourage – even force – Sociologists and Social Theorists to think about modernity in new and more expansive ways. The book is an excellent example of contemporary social theory, with its conceptual insights concerning the intersection and tensions between social imaginaries, especially those of democratic polities, nation states and capitalistic forms.' - Honorary Professor Jocelyn Pixlie, Macquarie University 

'This is an especially important book for contemporary critical theory. Its contributions unfold on multiple layers that cut across current relations of domination as well as quests for emancipation. Browne encourages us to focus on the complex dynamics, contradictions, crises, and possibilities of our political imaginaries. By engaging with the reconfiguration of political imaginaries, social theory can make a key contribution to critically understanding the historical character of the relationships that define us. Browne’s book confronts us with matters that are unavoidable today and his own proposals are based on interrogations of theories sensitive to these practical concerns.' - Alejandro Bialakowsky (Professor and Researcher of Sociological Theory, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina).

Spis treści

Acknowledgments

 

Introduction

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Chapter 1. Social Theory as a Project and as an Institution

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Chapter 2. The Modern Political Imaginary and the Problem of Hierarchy

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Chapter 3. From the Philosophy of Praxis to the Sociology of Practice

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Chapter 4. The Institution of Critique and the Critique of Institutions

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Chapter 5. The Political Forms of Modernity: The Gauchet-Badiou Debate over Democracy and Communism

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Chapter 6. Hong Kong as a Dual Periphery

Craig Browne with Phillip Mar (Orcid 000-0002-3268-270X)

 

Chapter 7. Austerity and its Antitheses: Practical Negations of Capitalist Legitimacy

Craig Browne with Simon Susen (Orcid 0000-0003-0643-1891)

 

Chapter 8. Enacting Half-Positions: Creative Disrespect in the 2005 French Riots

Craig Browne with Phillip Mar (Orcid 000-0002-3268-270X)

 

 

Index

O autorze

Craig Browne is an Associate Professor at The University of Sydney. He works in the area of critical social theory. His research into intersubjectivity, creative democracy, social change, contestation, global modernity, and social and political imaginaries, systematically revises the philosophy of praxis. He is the author of Critical Social Theory, Sage; Habermas and Giddens on Praxis and Modernity: A Constructive Comparison, Anthem; and co-author of Taylor and Politics: A Critical Introduction, Edinburgh University Press. He co-edited Violence in France and Australia: Disorder in the Postcolonial Welfare State, SUP, and a Special Issue of Social Epistemology on conceptualizing the political imaginary.