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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Cham, Switzerland :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2022]
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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.