Futures of critical theory : dreams of difference / edited by Michael Peters, Mark Olssen, and Colin Lankshear.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Peters, Michael (Michael A.), 1948-

Olssen, Mark.

Lankshear, Colin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology--Philosophy.

Sociology.

Critical theory.

Physical Description:

vi, 296 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2003]

Summary:

Written by internationally acclaimed scholars on futures of critical theory, this book attempts to renew and reinvigorate critical theory by extending its range and its intellectual trajectories through strategies of inclusiveness that respect and build on parallel traditions.

Contents:

Nietzsche, nihilism, and the critique of modernity / Michael Peters

A critical theory of the self : Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, Foucault / James D. Marshall

From the question concerning technology to the quest for a democratic technology : Heidegger, Marcuse, Feenberg / Iain Thomson

Foucault and critique : Kant, humanism, and the human sciences / Mark Olssen

Levinas's ethicopolitical order of human proximity : "the quest for justice" / Denise Egéa-Kuehne

"Looking for allies" : Gilles Deleuze as critical theorist / John R. Morss

Jacques Derrida : deconstruction = justice / Gert J.J. Biesta

The postmodern condition : Lyotard's futurology / Peter Pericles Trifonas

Of being-two / Pheng Cheah

Pierre Bourdieu : the craft of sociology / Roy Nash

Slavoj Zizek's naked politics : opting for the impossible

a secondary elaboration / Peter McLaren

Anthony Giddens

the last global theorist / David Scott

Cyberfeminism with a difference / Rosi Braidotti

Edward Said : the locatedness of theory / Bill Ashcroft

"Antiglobalization" and Guattari's The three ecologies / Michael Peters.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0742528596

074252860X

OCLC:

52090581