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We explore key dimensions of the “communicative turn” and its role in a critical theory of democracy, while also suggesting its own limitations – limitations emerging from a certain normative thrust detached from a thoroughgoing analysis of social structures and social pathologies.
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
Oct 1, 2017 · The volume demonstrates that there is still a unity of concern in current Critical Theory, in its debate over standards, ideals and legacy institutions of the Enlightenment, and over the fittingness of legal and political practices in domesticating capitalism.
- 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 ...
Jan 29, 2023 · How should critical theorists re-engage with the critique of capitalism without entrapment in old ideological certainties? They revisit the classical debates about transformative agency, direction and methods of change, and the place of normative ideals and of moral theory in the critique of capitalism in light of the current historical juncture.
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).
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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.
