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Dec 12, 2023 · In a narrow sense, “Critical Theory” (often denoted with capital letters) refers to the work of several generations of philosophers and social theorists in the Western European Marxist tradition known as the Frankfurt School.
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A new phase of capitalism began, shaped by deregula-tion, privatization and partial deconstruction of the welfare state. Globalization was advancing quickly, international financial capitalism became exceedingly important and socioeconomic inequalities within different societies began to increase.
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Mar 24, 2021 · A central concern for a critical theory of contemporary technology is both to understand how the subject’s form of rationality is impacted by technology and how the subject needs to develop new cognitive capacities to survive and engage critically with the emergent capitalist hyperreality.
- Gerard Delanty, Neal Harris
- 2021
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.
May 14, 2018 · Amy Allen’s essay looks toward a critique of progress and seeks to incorporate postmodernism into critical theory. She asks how can critical theory claim to be critical if it ‘relies on an imperialist meta-narrative to ground its approach to normativity?’ (p. 185).
- Michael J. Thompson
- thompsonmi@wpunj.edu
- 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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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
