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Jan 1, 2019 · In light of the ‘widespread agreement that capitalism is (again) a problem’ (p. 2), and of the rise of right- and left-wing populist movements and parties around the world which signals the crumbling of neoliberalism’s legitimacy (p. 222), critical theory at its best can help social actors develop a clearer understanding of the conjuncture, including its latent emancipatory possibilities.
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Oct 1, 2017 · Mills rightly berates mainstream Critical Theory for largely evading the topics of racism and colonialism (keeping in mind that this is not true for the work of Thomas A. McCarthy). The charge of Eurocentric parochialism is certainly crucial for current Critical Theorists to respond to, but they don't get to do that in this volume.
Dec 8, 2021 · The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is a landmark text for many reasons (Zuboff Reference Zuboff 2019).To begin with, it is driven by the highest theoretical ambition put to the service of enlightening the general public about the fundamental threats to our freedom and dignity represented by the unprecedented and unaccountable concentrations of knowledge and power in the hands of a few capitalists.
- 1 Rational Markets and Irrational Democrats
- 2 The Frayed Ends of Democratic Capitalism
- 3 Capital and Coloniality
Already in the 1940s, Schumpeter lamented that the true benefits of capitalism can only be appreciated by those taking a much more long-term, utilitarian view of society and progress than could be expected of most citizens (Schumpeter 2003 [1943]: 144–5). Hayek, for his part, worried that a citizenry of “employees” will fail to appreciate the needs...
Criticism of postwar social democracy was not confined to liberal conservatives. Ironically, as the intellectual parents of neoliberalism were using rational choice models to show the limits of the democratic welfare state, critical theorists of the New Left were accusing the democratic welfare state of turning citizens into the “one-dimensional” m...
While many anticolonial thinkers of the mid-twentieth century took inspiration from Marxist revolutionary theory, its limitations when transposed from the capitalist core to the global periphery were apparent. For one thing, classical Marxism proved no less beholden than other European accounts of modernity to a philosophy of history that harbored ...
May 28, 2021 · “Critical” international theory today often seems marked by a sense of self-doubt about its theoretical foundations and practical relevance. The New Right exhibits few such doubts. It has actively mobilized Critical themes to reactionary ends, posing a direct challenge to the idea that Critical theory is intrinsically tied to progressive political purposes.
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influenced by critical theory's analyses of needs, consumption, advertising, and consumer capitalism. The critical theorists critiques of positivism have engendered forms of qualitative social theory and their defenses of dialectical social theory have enlivened Hegelian and Marxian analyses of the contemporary moment.
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Aug 18, 2024 · Biographies. Charles Masquelier is an associate professor in Sociology at the University of Exeter, UK. He is a social and political theorist with particular interests in critical theory, social movements, and socialist thought. He is the author of Critique and Resistance in a Neoliberal Age (2017) and Intersectional Socialism (2023). While ...
