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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.
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.
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
Explores how the concept of democracy is being impacted by technological developments. Proposes that democracy requires trust as well as distrust to function properly. Brings together historians, philosophers, political theorists and sociologists to discuss the criticisms of democracy.
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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Apr 27, 2020 · Inspired by Marx’s tripartite critique, she concludes by proposing a new multi-stranded critique of capitalism, which combines a functionalist critique of capitalism’s tendencies to crisis with a normative critique of domination and a political critique of unfreedom.
