Robin Celikates

Critique as Social Practice

Critical Theory and Social Self-Understanding

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Produktbeschreibung

This book provides an overview of recent debates about critical theory from Pierre Bourdieu via Luc Boltanski to the Frankfurt School. Robin Celikates investigates the relevance of the self-understanding of ordinary agents and of their practices of critique for the theoretical and emancipatory project of critical theory.

Produktdetails

• Essex Studies in Contemporary Critical Theory
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 548g
• ISBN-13: 9781786604620
• ISBN-10: 1786604620
• Artikelnr.: 50448936

Autorenporträt

Robin Celikates is Associate Professor of Political and Social Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Inhaltsangabe

Preface, Axel Honneth
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. 'I See Something You Cannot See': The Model of the Break
3. 'Follow the Agents': The Model of Symmetry
4. Critical Theory as Reconstructive Critique
5. Conclusion
Bibliography