In this outstanding reinterpretation - and extension - of the Critical Theory tradition, Craig Calhoun surveys the origins, fortunes and prospects of this most influential of theoretical approaches. Moving with ease from the early Frankfurt School to Habermas, to contemporary debates over postmodernism, feminism and nationalism, Calhoun breathes new life into Critical Social Theory, showing how it can learn from the past and contribute to the future.
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"This is social theory at its very best. In a host of domains - concerning cultural difference, postmodernism, the politics of identity, and nationalism - Calhoun breaks new ground." Charles Taylor
"This is a very well informed and very rigorous critical survey of Critical Social Theory." Pierre Bourdieu
"A brilliant synthesis of theory and history: Calhoun works at the cutting edge, facing the future but carrying his traditions with him." Peter Beilharz
"This book explores Critical Theory's origins, but more importantly it also shows how certain contemporary writers, despite not usually being recognised as such, have as much claim to the title 'critical theorist' as did Adorno and Horkheimer. It is this essential extension of critical analysis into today's body of theoretical concerns that gives the book its particular importance." Alan Sica
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In this outstanding reinterpretation - and extension - of the Critical Theory tradition, Craig Calhoun surveys the origins, fortunes and prospects of this most influential of theoretical approaches. Moving with ease from the early Frankfurt School to Habermas, to contemporary debates over postmodernism, feminism and nationalism, Calhoun breathes new life into Critical Social Theory, showing how it can learn from the past and contribute to the future.
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incommensurable practices, epistemic gain, international public sphere, categorical identities, ruling apparatus, political public sphere, universal standpoint, salient identities Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Frankfurt School, Pierre Bourdieu, French Revolution, Reflexive Sociology, Structural Transformation, Philosophical Discourse of Modernity, Protestant Reformation, Third World, Whose Science, Dorothy Smith, Eclipse of Reason, Hannah Arendt, Imagined Communities, Michel Foucault, Charles Taylor, Essentially Speaking, Homo Academicus, Max Weber, United States, Condition of Postmodernity, Donna Haraway, Herbert Marcuse, Infrastructure of Modernity, Talking Back, The Science Question New!
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A philistine has been defined as "someone who is content to live in a wholly unexplored world." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
incommensurable practices, epistemic gain, international public sphere, categorical identities, ruling apparatus, political public sphere, universal standpoint, salient identities Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Frankfurt School, Pierre Bourdieu, French Revolution, Reflexive Sociology, Structural Transformation, Philosophical Discourse of Modernity, Protestant Reformation, Third World, Whose Science, Dorothy Smith, Eclipse of Reason, Hannah Arendt, Imagined Communities, Michel Foucault, Charles Taylor, Essentially Speaking, Homo Academicus, Max Weber, United States, Condition of Postmodernity, Donna Haraway, Herbert Marcuse, Infrastructure of Modernity, Talking Back, The Science Question New!
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- The Human Condition (2nd Edition) by Hannah Arendt on 9 pages
- The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity by Jurgen Habermas on 8 pages
- Writing and Difference by Jacques Derrida on 8 pages
- Critical Theory: Selected Essays by Max Horkheimer on 6 pages
- Dialectic of Enlightenment (Cultural Memory in the Present) by Max Horkheimer on 5 pages
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- Nationalism and Cultural Practice in the Postcolonial World (Cultural Margins) by Neil Lazarus in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Progressive Black Masculinities? by Athena D. Mutua on page 153, and Back Matter
- Sociology after the Crisis by Charles Lemert in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Latin America and Postmodernity: A Contemporary Reader by Pedro Lange-Churion on page 207, and Back Matter
- Contemporary Sociological Theory (Blackwell Readers in Sociology) by Craig Calhoun in Front Matter
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