ISBN:
9780231151870
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (217 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
New Directions in Critical Theory
Parallel Title:
Print version Politics of Culture and the Spirit of Critique : Dialogues
DDC:
306.2
Keywords:
Social sciences - Philosophy
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Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Online-Publikation
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Online-Publikation
Abstract:
The idea of "culture" has become central to intellectual debates since at least the end of the 1970s, with the reemergence of longstanding cultural issues becoming an indispensible part of moral and political critique. Additionally, the meaning of culture has expanded beyond its earlier, anthropological meaning to include issues of ethnicity, race, religion, gender, and sexual orientation. Whether informing arguments about a "clash of civilizations" or underscoring the importance of "mainstream multiculturalism," inflated notions of culture are ubiquitous, and their prevalence has generated ne
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Politics of Culture and the Spirit of Critique; 1. Critical Theory Today: Politics, Ethics, Culture - Opening Dialogue; 2. Concrete Universality and Critical Social Theory: Dialogue with Alfredo Gomez-Muller and Gabriel Rockhill; 3. Global Justice and the Renewal of the Critical Theory Tradition: Dialogue with Alfredo Gomez-Muller and Gabriel Rockhill; CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON CULTURAL POLITICS; 4. Accounting for a Philosophic Itinerary: Genealogies of Power and Ethics of Nonviolence: Dialogue with Alfredo Gomez-Muller and Gabriel Rockhill
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5. The Present in the Light of the Longue Duree: Dialogue with Alredo Gomez-Muller and Gabriel Rockhill6. A Prisoner of Hope in the Night of the American Empire: Dialogue with Gabriel Rockhill; CULTURE AS CRITIQUE: The Limits of Liberalism?; 7. Liberalism: Politics, Ethics, and Markets - Dialogue with Alfredo Gomez-Muller and Ronan Sharkey; 8. Cultural Rights and Social-Democratic Principles: Dialogue with Alfredo Gomez-Muller and Gabriel Rockhill; EPILOGUE: Critical Theory and Recognition
Description / Table of Contents:
9. The Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School and the Theory of Recognition: Dialogue with Olivier VoirolNotes; Contributors;
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