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Critical theory and contemporary Europe /
Table of Contents: “…About the series -- Preface -- Theorizing the European crisis of 1914-1945 -- "Late" capitalism, from the postwar boom to the crises of the 1970s : the 1968 years and the Tendenzwende -- State socialism and its crises -- Critical theory and post-communist transition -- Critical theory at the turn of the 21st century -- Critical theory and the European Union -- Conclusion: critical theory in Germany, Europe, and North America : its continuing relevance -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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The domestication of critical theory /
Table of Contents: “…How critical theory was domesticated -- The present state of critical theory -- The rise of neo-idealist critical theory -- One-dimensional rationality and the limits of pragmatist reason -- The insufficiency of recognition: a critique of Axel Honneth's concept of critical theory -- Reconstructing the logic of critical social theory -- Structure and consciousness: reconsidering the base-superstructure hypothesis -- System and function: the normative basis of social power -- Fact and value: the epistemological framework of critical theory -- Renewing critical philosophy -- Against the postmetaphysical turn: toward a critical social ontology.…”
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Soundings in critical theory /
Subjects: “…Literature History and criticism Theory, etc.…”
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Erich Fromm's Critical theory : hope, humanism, and the future /
Table of Contents: “…'Mapping Fromm's Critical Theory', /…”
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Critical theories of mass media : then and now /
Table of Contents: “…Front cover; Title page; Half title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Content page; Acknowledgements; Chapter outlines; Introduction:Cultural populism and critical theory; Part 1: Then; Chapter1: Walter Benjamin's Work of art essay; Chapter 2: Siegfried Kracauer's mass ornament; Chapter 3: Theodor Adorno and the culture industry; Chapter 4: Marshall McLuhan's understanding of the media; Chapter 5: Guy Debord's society of the spectacle; Part 2: Now; Introduction to part 2; Chapter 6: The culture of celebrity; Chaptera 7: Banality TV: the democratization of celebrity.…”
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Critical theory and the crisis of Contemporary Capitalism : /
Table of Contents: “…From master-signifier to objet a, and back -- Chapter 4 The Capitalist discourse: Digging its own grave -- The Real of the discourses -- Goal and aim of the capitalist drive -- The ambiguity of enjoyment -- Work's jouissance -- A myth called progress -- The surplus of surplus-value: Lacan and Marx -- Crisis and human surplus -- Chapter 5 Agamben's messianism, or: Trouble with the dialectic -- Lack and plenitude in Agamben -- Agamben with critical theory -- The aporia of experience -- The form-of-language -- Messianism revealed -- Epilogue: Nothing to be liberated -- References -- Index.…”
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Emerging Afrikan survivals : an Afrocentric critical theory /
Table of Contents: “…Part Part I Emerging Afrikan Survivals: An Afrocentric Critical Theory -- chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 Historically Situating African American Culture -- chapter 3 Change and Cultural Representation in African American Literary Criticism -- chapter 4 Recent Directions in African American Literary Criticism -- part Part II Application of the Afrocentric Critical Theory: Three Troubled Men -- chapter Overview to Part II -- chapter 5 Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon -- chapter 6 David Bradley's The Chaneysville Incident -- chapter 7 Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man -- chapter 8 A Review of Contemporary African American Novels -- chapter 9 Conclusion.…”
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Pathologies of reason : on the legacy of critical theory /
Table of Contents: “…The irreducibility of progress : Kant's account of the relationship between morality and history -- A social pathology of reason : on the intellectual legacy of critical theory -- Reconstructive social criticism with a genealogical proviso : on the idea of "critique" in the Frankfurt School -- A physiognomy of the capitalist form of life : a sketch of Adorno's social theory -- Performing justice : Adorno's introduction to Negative dialectics -- Saving the sacred with a philosophy of history : on Benjamin's "Critique of violence" -- Appropriating freedom : Freud's conception of individual self-relation -- "Anxiety and politics" : the strengths and weaknesses of Franz Neumann's diagnosis of a social pathology -- Democracy and inner freedom : Alexander Mitscherlich's contribution to critical social theory -- Dissonances of communicative reason : Albrecht Wellmer and critical theory -- Appendix : idiosyncrasy as a tool of knowledge : social criticism in the age of the normalized intellectual.…”
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The association of ideas and critical theory in eighteenth-century England : a history of a psychological method in English criticism /
Subjects: “…Literature History and criticism Theory, etc.…”
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Continental philosophy of social science : hermeneutics, genealogy, critical theory /
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The desiring modes of being Black : literature and critical theory /
Subjects: “…American literature African American authors History and criticism Theory, etc.…”
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From Kant to Lévi-Strauss : the background to contemporary critical theory /
Subjects: “…Critical theory History.…”
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From Kant to Lévi-Strauss : the background to contemporary critical theory /
Subjects: “…Critical theory History.…”
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