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Critical theory and feeling : the affective politics of the early Frankfurt school /
Table of Contents: “…Thinking through feeling: critical theory and the affective turn --…”
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Critical theory and the digital /
Table of Contents: “…; Chapter 2 From culture industry to computational industries; Critical theory; The digital and critical theory; Chapter 3 The softwarization of society; The cyberstructure; Financialization and software; Chapter 4 Computational ontologies; Negative dialectics and fundamental ontology; Glitch ontology; Chapter 5 The reification of everyday life; Reification technologies: Web bugs, beacons and trackers; Chapter 6 Computational aesthetics; The New Aesthetic; Code aesthetics.…”
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Globalizing critical theory /
Table of Contents: “…Globalizing theory, theorizing globalization : introduction / Max Pensky -- Interpreting the fall of a monument / Jürgen Habermas -- February 15; or, what binds Europeans together : a plea for a common foreign policy, beginning in core Europe / Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida -- Transnationalizing the public sphere / Nancy Fraser -- Toward a critical theory of globalization : democratic practice and multiperspectival inquiry / James Bohman -- Democratic institutions and cosmopolitan solidarity / María Pía Lara -- The transnational university and the global public sphere / Peter Uwe Hohendahl -- Beyond Eurocentrism : the Frankfurt School and whiteness theory / Clay Steinman -- Vergangenheitsbewältigung in the United States : on the politics of the memory of slavery / Thomas McCarthy -- Resistance to memory : the uses and abuses of public forgetting / Andreas Huyssen -- Globalizing critical theory of science / Eduardo Mendieta -- In the stocking-steps of Walter Benjamin : critical theory, television, and the global imagination / F. …”
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Critical theory and methodology /
Table of Contents: “…Introduction: what is critical theory? -- Foundations of metatheory: between subjectivism and objectivism -- Postempiricist critiques of positivism and empiricism -- Early critical theory as a research program: a historical introduction -- Postempiricist metatheory and the human sciences: interim developments -- The metatheory of critical theory: beyond objectivism and relativism -- Contemporary critical theory as a research program: Giddens and Habermas.…”
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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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Futures of critical theory : dreams of difference /
Table of Contents: “…Nietzsche, nihilism, and the critique of modernity / Michael Peters -- A critical theory of the self : Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, Foucault / James D. …”
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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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The Critical Theory of Axel Honneth.
Table of Contents: “…; 5: Anthropology, Recognition, and Critique; 10 A Critical Theory of Recognition; 11 The Power of Critique; Notes; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Critical theory and the anthropology of heritage landscapes /
Table of Contents: “…Landscapes as heritage -- The politics of place: Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, Australia -- Of environments and landscapes -- Experts and epistemologies -- Landscapes of extraction -- Toward a critical theory of heritage?…”
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The SAGE handbook of Frankfurt school critical theory /
Table of Contents: “…Key texts and contributions to a critical theory of society -- v. 2. Themes -- v. 3. Contexts.…”
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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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Beyond friend and foe : the politics of critical theory /
Table of Contents: “…: the place of property in critical theory -- Realizing Honneth : redistribution, recognition, and global justice -- From persons to peoples : the politics of recognition in international society.…”
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The mathematical imagination : on the origins and promise of critical theory /
Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The Problem of Mathematics in Critical Theory -- 1. The Trouble with Logical Positivism: Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. …”
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Emancipation and history : the return of social theory /
Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Vicissitudes and possibilities of critical theory today -- Global modernity : levels of analysis and conceptual strategies -- Existential social questions, developmental trends and modernity -- History, sociology and modernity -- Realism, trend-concepts and the modern state -- Family, modernization and sociological theory -- The basic forms of social interaction -- The imaginary and politics in modernity: the trajectory -- Critical social theory and developmental trends, emancipation -- References -- Index.…”
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The Politics of Our Selves : Power, Autonomy, and Gender in Contemporary Critical Theory.
Table of Contents: “…; Individuation Through Socialization; The Morally Disciplined Personality; 6. Contextualizing Critical Theory; The Empirical and the Transcendental (Reprise); The Context Transcendence of Validity Claims.…”
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