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Dec 12, 2023 · “Critical theory” refers to a family of theories that aim at a critique and transformation of society by integrating normative perspectives with empirically informed analysis of society’s conflicts, contradictions, and tendencies.
- Globalization
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 as Albrecht Wellmer has recently reminded us “the very term critical theory was coined in a secret reference to Marx’s critique of political economy.” 1 The task was to overcome capitalism and its pathologies; issues of politics, including democratic politics, took a back seat.
Sep 8, 2022 · Critical theorists, on the other hand, tend to treat the capitalist economy and democratic politics as holistically distinguishable spheres of activity. This holistic perspective not only helps critical theorists to more clearly present capitalism and democracy as two conflicting modes of sociation.
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.
- Michael J. Thompson
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- 2019
Dec 8, 2021 · Joining a long line of works in critical theory, from Karl Marx’s Capital to Hannah Arendt’s Imperialism, Zuboff claims that she produces theory to put us, her readers, on a path toward emancipation from, and resistance against, alienation. Critical theorists generally assume that abstract and holistic thinking can be emancipatory.
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This article draws together the social and political theory of Jürgen Habermas and Karl Polanyi to develop a general framework for critically analyzing the relationship between capitalism and democracy.
