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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,...
- Scientific Explanation
Issues concerning scientific explanation have been a focus...
- Epistemology
According to some, to know a fact is for that fact to be a...
- Globalization
Jan 1, 2019 · This book aims to bring the study of capitalism back to the forefront of critical theory. In doing so, Nancy Fraser and Rahel Jaeggi lay out a bold agenda for a theoretical approach that, in their view, has become almost indistinguishable from liberalism (pp. 5–6).
- James A. Chamberlain
- jac1287@msstate.edu
- 2020
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.
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.
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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Oct 16, 2018 · Critical theorists have drawn on Polanyi’s empirical categories like the double movement (Fraser, 2013, 2014), but I here reconstruct the broader theoretical concepts that inform his empirical analyses and illustrate their analytic and normative value.
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Sep 7, 2022 · Focusing on nine “critical debates” it provides a uniquely comprehensive overview of the tensions, contradictions, and latent emancipatory potential of contemporary global capitalism.