2 options
Beyond friend and foe [electronic resource] : the politics of critical theory / by Volker Heins.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Heins, Volker, 1957-
- Series:
- Social and critical theory ; v. 9.
- Social and critical theory : a critical horizons book series, 1572-459X ; v. 9
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Critical theory--Political aspects.
- Critical theory.
- Frankfurt school of sociology.
- Sociology--Political aspects.
- Sociology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (269 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden [The Netherlands] ; Boston : Brill, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 sociology. Heins presents a fresh reading of Critical Theory in ways that remind us both of what this theory is and what it can be.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-11979-X
- 9786613119797
- 90-04-19468-1
- OCLC:
- 731647030
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/ej.9789004188006.i-259 DOI
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 If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.