1 option
Critical social theory : culture, society and critique / Tim Dant.
LIBRA B809.3 .D3 2003
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dant, Tim, 1951-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Critical theory.
- Social sciences--Philosophy.
- Social sciences.
- Physical Description:
- 176 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2003.
- Contents:
- 1 Criticism by Theory 1
- Critique 6
- Marx: Alienation 7
- Freud: Discontent 10
- Culture and critique 14
- 2 Culture as Myth 18
- Ancient myth in modern culture 21
- Adorno and Horkheimer: Myth versus enlightenment 23
- Freud: Dreams and myths 28
- Lefebvre: Myth and publicity 30
- Barthes: Myth and ideology 31
- Baudrillard: Reality and illusion 36
- 3 Work and Non-Work 41
- Marx: Work as species-being 42
- Arendt: Toil and trouble 44
- Adorno and Horkheimer: Work and culture 46
- Marcuse: One-dimensional society 47
- Gorz: The dual society 51
- Touraine: The programmed society 53
- Baudrillard: The end of production 55
- Lazzarato: Immaterial labour 59
- 4 The Critique of Everyday Life 65
- Adorno and Horkheimer: The loss of individuality 67
- Marcuse: False needs of consumption 69
- Lefebvre: Alienation and disalienation 71
- Certeau: Strategies and tactics 75
- Baudrillard: Objects and consumption 80
- 5 Sex and Sexuality 87
- Freud: Sex and death 88
- Lefebvre: Dissatisfaction 91
- Adorno and Horkheimer: Sex and rationality 92
- Marcuse: The 'performance principle' 94
- Barthes: Sex as love 98
- Baudrillard: Seduction and the death of sex 100
- 6 Art and Entertainment 108
- Adorno and Horkheimer: The culture industry 110
- Benjamin: The mechanical reproduction of culture 114
- Marcuse: Art as liberation 117
- Lefebvre: Representing the quotidian 120
- Barthes: Reading culture 123
- Baudrillard: Culture as simulation 126
- 7 Knowledge, Action and Politics 131
- Horkheimer: The origins of critical theory 132
- Marcuse: From dialectics to aesthetics 136
- Lefebvre: The primacy of everyday life 139
- Benjamin and Barthes: History as the past in the present 142
- Baudrillard: The critique of repressive simulation 144
- Gorz and Tourraine: Return of the subject of politics 149
- 8 The Idea of a Critical Theory 156
- Social change 158
- The idea of a critical theory 160.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-171) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0761954783
- 0761954791
- OCLC:
- 53030804
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.