Globalization, critique and social theory diagnoses and challenges

In recent years, under the impression and the burden of globalization and neoliberalism, debates about the relationship between the theory and practice of progress - including the theory and practice of social critique - have gone through an unexpected and momentous revival, renewal and rejuvenation...

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Other Authors Dahms, Harry F.
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2015.
SeriesCurrent perspectives in social theory ; v. 33.
Subjects
Social sciences > Philosophy.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781785602467
ISSN0278-1204 ;
DOI10.1108/S0278-1204201533
Physical Description1 online resource (xvii, 295 p.)

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Table of Contents:
  • The task of critical theory today : rethinking the critique of capitalism and its futures / Moishe Postone
  • Profit maxims : capitalism and the common sense of time and money / David Norman Smith
  • Theorizing modern society as an inverted reality : how critical theory and indigenous critiques of globalization must learn from each other / Asafa Jalata, Harry F. Dahms
  • The neo-idealist paradigm shift in contemporary critical theory / Michael J. Thompson
  • toward a critical ontology of the social : Hegel, Luka<U+0301>cs, and the challenge of mediation / Reha Kadakal
  • Critical theory and practice : bridging the global and the Personal. A lecture / Courtney Jung
  • Call for a new social theory : re-igniting radical imagination / James E. Block
  • Imperial homunculi : the speculative singularities of American hegemony (drones, suicide bombers, and rampage killers, or, an excursion into Durkheimian geometry) / Mark P. Worrell
  • How legends become brands : the culture industry in the second enclosure movement / Daniel Krier, William J. Swart
  • Thick description, nomological laws and ideal types : which methodology helps most with praxis? / J.I. (Hans) Bakker.

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