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The Palgrave handbook of critical theory

Abstract

This handbook is the only major survey of critical theory from philosophical, political, sociological, psychological and historical vantage points. It emphasizes not only on the historical and philosophical roots of critical theory, but also its current themes and trends as well as future applications and directions. It addresses specific areas of interest that have forged the critical theory tradition, such as critical social psychology, aesthetics and the critique of culture, communicative action, and the critique of instrumental reason. It is intended for those interested in exploring the influential paradigm of critical theory from multiple, interdisciplinary perspectives and understanding its contribution to the humanities and the social sciences.

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Introduction

what is critical theory?

Michael Thompson(Department of Philosophy, University of Oklahoma)

pp.1-14

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Critical theory and resistance

on antiphilosophy and the philosophy of praxis

pp.17-42

https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55801-5_2
Marx's influence on the early Frankfurt school Chad Kautzer

pp.43-65

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Lukács' theory of reification and the tradition of critical theory Konstantinos Kavoulakos

pp.67-85

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Totality, reason, dialectics

the importance of Hegel for critical theory from Lukács to Honneth

Omar Dahbour

pp.87-108

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Why students of the Frankfurt school will have to read Lukács Andrew Feenberg

pp.109-133

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Critical theory and the historical transformations of capitalist modernity Moishe Postone

pp.137-163

https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55801-5_7
Critical theory as radical comparative–historical research Harry F. Dahms

pp.165-184

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The Frankfurt school and the critique of instrumental reason Gregory Smulewicz-Zucker

pp.185-206

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Materialism in critical theory

Marx and the early Horkheimer

David A. Borman

pp.207-229

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Critique as the epistemic framework of the critical social sciences Michael Thompson(Department of Philosophy, University of Oklahoma)

pp.231-252

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Theories of culture in the Frankfurt school of critical theory Christoph Henning

pp.255-278

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Adorno's aesthetic theory James Freeman

pp.279-289

https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55801-5_13
Art and the concept of autonomy in Adorno's Kant critique Max Paddison

pp.291-308

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Judging by refraining from judgment

the artwork and its einordnung

Gerhard Richter(Department of Religious Studies, Brown University)

pp.309-327

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Aesthetics as the precondition for revolution Dirk Michel-Schertges

pp.329-348

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What does it mean to be critical?

on literary and social critique in Walter Benjamin

Nathan Ross

pp.349-365

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Theory and class consciousness David Norman Smith

pp.369-423

https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55801-5_18
The Frankfurt school, authority, and the psychoanalysis of utopia C. Fred Alford

pp.425-441

https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55801-5_19
The social psychology of critical theory Lauren Langman

pp.443-462

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The social psychology of authority Mark P. Worrell

pp.463-480

https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55801-5_21
The Fromm–Marcuse debate and the future of critical theory Neil McLaughlin

pp.481-501

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The metaethics of critical theories Titus Stahl

pp.505-522

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Collective agency and intentionality

a critical theory perspective

Barbara Fultner

pp.523-545

https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55801-5_24
Recognition, social systems and critical theory Spyros Gangas

pp.547-565

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Recognition, identity and subjectivity Heikki Ikäheimo

pp.567-585

https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55801-5_26
The sociological roots and deficits of Axel Honneth's theory of recognition Mariana Teixeira

pp.587-609

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Experience and temporality

toward a new paradigm of critical theory

Espen Hammer(Department of Philosophy, University of California San Diego)

pp.613-629

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Critical theory of human rights Lars Rensmann

pp.631-653

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Immanent critique and the exhaustion thesis

neoliberalism and history's vicissitudes

Robert J. Antonio

pp.655-676

https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55801-5_30
Critical theory and global development David Ingram

pp.677-696

https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55801-5_31
The new sensibility, intersectionality, and democratic attunement

the future of critical theory and humanity

Arnold Farr(Department of Germanic Languages and Literature, University of Oregon)

pp.697-715

https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55801-5_32

Publication details

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Place: Basingstoke

Year: 2017

Pages: 739

Series: Political Philosophy and Public Purpose

DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-55801-5

ISBN (hardback): 978-1-137-55800-8

ISBN (digital): 978-1-137-55801-5

Full citation:

(2017) The Palgrave handbook of critical theory. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.