The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Theory

ISBN-13: 9781137558008 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 739 str.

Michael J. Thompson

Opis

This handbook is the only major survey of critical theory from philosophical, political, sociological, psychological and historical vantage points.

Spis treści

I. The Hegelian-Marxist Roots of Critical Theory

1. Stephen Eric Bronner: Critical Foundations: History, Reflection, Praxis

2. Chad Kautzer: Marx’s Influence on the Early Frankfurt School

3. Konstantinos Kavoulakos: Lukács’s Theory of Reification and the Tradition of Critical Theory

4. Omar Dahbour: Totality, Reason, Dialectics: The Importance of Hegel for Critical Theory from Lukács to Honneth

5. Andrew Feenberg: Why Students of the Frankfurt School Need to Read Lukacs

II. Critique, Epistemology and the Aims of Social Research

6. Moishe Postone: Critical Theory and the Historical Transformations of Capitalist Modernity

7. Harry Dahms: Critical Theory as Radical Comparative-Historical Research

8. Gregory Smulewicz-Zucker: The Frankfurt School and the Critique of Instrumental Reason

9. David Borman: Materialism in Critical Theory: Marx and the Early Horkheimer

10. Michael J. Thompson: Critique As the Epistemic Framework of the Critical Social 

Sciences  

III. The Sociology of Culture and Critical Aesthetics

11. Christoph Henning: Theories of Culture in the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory

12. James Freeman: On Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory

13. Max Paddison: Art and the Concept of Autonomy in Adorno’s Critique of Kant

14. Gerhard Richter: Judging by Refraining from Judgment: The Artwork and Its Einordnung

15. Dirk Michel-Schertges: Critical Theory and the Aesthetic Conditions for Revolution 

16. Nathan Ross: What Does It Mean to be Critical? On Literary and Social Critique in Walter 

Benjamin 

IV. Critical Social Psychology and the Study of Authoritarianism

17. David N. Smith: Theory and Class Consciousness

18. C. Fred Alford: The Frankfurt School, Authority, and the Psychoanalysis of Utopia

19. Lauren Langman: Culture, Character and Critique: The Social Psychology of the Frankfurt 

School

20. Mark P. Worrell: The Critical Theory of Sadomasochism and Authoritarianism

21. Neil McLaughlin: The Fromm-Marcuse Debate Revisited: Reformulating the Critical Theory 

of the Authoritarian Character

V. Ethics, Communication and Recognition

22. Titus Stahl: The Metaethics of Critical Theories

23. Barbara Fultner: Collective Agency and Intentionality: A Critical Theory Perspective

24. Heikki Ikäheimo: Recognition, Identity and Subjectivity

25. Spiros Gangas: Recognition, Social Systems and Critical Theory

26. Mariana Teixeira: The Sociological Roots and Deficits of Axel Honneth’s Theory of 

Recognition  

27. Espen Hammer: Experience and Temporality: Toward a New Paradigm of Critical Theory

O autorze

Michael J. Thompson is Associate Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Political Science, William Paterson University, USA.

Blurb

This handbook is the only major survey of critical theory from philosophical, political, sociological, psychological and historical vantage points. It emphasizes not only on the historical and philosophical roots of critical theory, but also its current themes and trends as well as future applications and directions. It addresses specific areas of interest that have forged the critical theory tradition, such as critical social psychology, aesthetics and the critique of culture, communicative action, and the critique of instrumental reason. It is intended for those interested in exploring the influential paradigm of critical theory from multiple, interdisciplinary perspectives and understanding its contribution to the humanities and the social sciences.