Critical theory diverse objects, diverse subjects

The contributions in this 22nd volume of "Current Perspectives in Social Theory" explore the arguments for and against a view of the world in which multiple, distinct and conflicting societies differ both over time and contemporaneously.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors Lehmann, Jennifer M., 1956-
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published New York : JAI, 2003.
SeriesCurrent perspectives in social theory ; v. 22.
Subjects
Social sciences > Philosophy.
Knowledge, Theory of.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781849501774
1849501777
0762309636
9780762309634
ISSN0278-1204 ;
DOI10.1016/S0278-1204(2002)22
Physical Description1 online resource (xvii, 392 p.)

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Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Bringing Marxism back ... with Foucault
  • Foucoult's encounter with Marxism / Paul Paolucci
  • Part II: Critical theories of knowledge: epistemology and culture
  • Afrocentricity and the Eurocentric hegemony of knowledge: contradictions of place / Molefi Kete Asante
  • Epistemology, culture and rhetoric: some social implications of human cognition / Thomas J. Burns and Terri LeMoyne
  • Films and utopia: the culture industry revisited / James J. Dowd
  • Part III: Social structures, theories and movements
  • Cybercritique: a social theory of online agency and virtual structures / Timothy W. Luke
  • Rationalism and traditionalism in classical sociology and contemporary feminist theory / Mary Godwyn
  • The duality of systems: networks as media and outcomes of movement mobilization / Jeff Livesay
  • Part IV: Bridging the African diaspora in the new millennium (selected papers from the eponymous conference at the University of Nebraska, Februrary 2001)
  • Re-visioning race: dismantling whiteness / Gerise Herndon
  • The phychological and spiritual implications of western Christian missionaries' influence on the African diaspora: special reference to West African countries / Joshua Olayiwola Oyekan
  • Part V: Critical theory (selected papers from the Conference of the Socialogical Theory Section, International Socialogical Association, University of Cambridge, September 2000)
  • How is society possible? Towards a metacritique of reification / Frédéric Vandenberghe
  • The form of difference: reimagining critical theory / Nancy Weiss Hanrahan
  • Prolegomena to an intercultural critical theory / Fuyuki Kurasawa
  • Pragmatism versus socialogical hermeneutics / Patrick Baert
  • Subjectivity, culture, autonomy: Castadoriadis and social theory / Anthony Elliott.

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