ISBN:
9789004194687
,
9004194681
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (x, 259 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Social and critical theory v. 9
Series Statement:
a critical horizons book series 1572-459X
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Heins, Volker, 1957- Beyond friend and foe
DDC:
301.01
Keywords:
Critical theory Political aspects
;
Sociology Political aspects
;
Frankfurt school of sociology
;
Critical theory Political aspects
;
Sociology Political aspects
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; General
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Regional Studies
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Sociology ; General
;
Frankfurt school of sociology
;
Sociology ; Political aspects
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Knowing the worst : critical theory as trauma narrative -- From factions to rackets : the traps of conspiracy thinking -- Flaneurs without borders : Benjamin and the cultural politics of travel writing -- Meanings of barbarism : civil society and its others -- Orientalizing America : Habermas and the changing discourse of Europe -- Age of access? : 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.
Abstract:
This book provides a thematic account of the changing political philosophy of critical theorists from Adorno to Habermas and Honneth. In addition to teasing out unexplored elements of political thought from the writings of important Frankfurt School intellectuals and their successors, the book seeks to establish the relevance of this tradition for contemporary political theory. Readers are offered an inside perspective, developed out of primary texts including some hitherto unused sources, which is combined with the outside perspective of non-Frankfurt School traditions such as cultural sociol
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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