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Dec 12, 2023 · Nancy Fraser was one of the first critical theorists to revive crisis critique and to do so as part of a comprehensive critique of capitalism that renews the link between analytical diagnosis and critique (Fraser 2011, 2014; see Wellmer 2014 for a critique of the Frankfurt School’s earlier neglect).
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At least since the advent of industrial capitalism, however,...
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Issues concerning scientific explanation have been a focus...
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Ginet argued that knowing how to do something was simply...
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But there is a decisive difference: whereas certain forms of capitalism produce and function with an extreme concentration of wealth and capital, democracies cannot coexist with a similar constellation and concentration of power. Finally, capitalism and democracy can support each other.
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Habermas’s conception of the interpenetration of private and pub-lic freedom provides a starting point for a critical theory of democracy, one that, as noted in chapter 1, has considerable similarities to the developmental democratic theory of C.B. Macpherson.
Sep 8, 2022 · In this chapter I review four ways of theorizing the relationship between capitalism and democracy. Classical liberalism has long maintained that capitalism and democracy are complementary—that both mutually reinforce the same demand for freedom or, at the very...
Critical Theory in the Twenty-First Century: The Logic of Capital between Classical Social Theory, the Early Frankfurt School Critique of Political Economy, and the Prospect of Artifice Harry F. Dahms Introduction There are many different versions of critical theory, both within the tradition of the Frankfurt
May 14, 2018 · Penelope Deutscher’s and Cristina Lafont’s edited collection of essays, Critical Theory in Critical Times, seems poised to deal with today’s problematic relation between critical theory and the various crises spawned by the global capitalist order.
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Nov 30, 2016 · The first generation of Frankfurt School theorists defined critical theory as the program of deconstructing how the spread of capital is mediated (and concealed) politically, socially and cultural, albeit while abandoning the need to update Marx’s critique of political economy for the twentieth century.
