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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).
- Globalization
Nonetheless, some contemporary theorists believe that...
- Scientific Explanation
Issues concerning scientific explanation have been a focus...
- Epistemology
Another form of consequentialism, consistent with but...
- Globalization
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.
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).
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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.
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 · Abstract. The question of capitalism—of whether capitalist economic structures and their characteristic forms of power are compatible with democratic principles—is unsettled.
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With this understanding of deliberative democracy as a backdrop, in what follows we examine the core elements of participatory democracy as developed by Carole Pateman, C.B. Macpherson, and Carol Gould, three key thinkers long identified with participatory democratic theory.
