Critique in a Neoliberal Age

"Critique in a Neoliberal Age brings a critique of ideology to main debates within economic sociology, populism studies, the neoliberal university, therapy culture, contemporary intimacies and feminism"--

List of contents

Introduction 1. Ideology Critique in a Neoliberal Age 2. Sociology and Critique 3. The Dialectics of Critique and Progress 4. The Embedded Market and Ideology Critique 5. Common Cause? The Political Rationalities of Neo-liberalism and Populism 6. De-politicizing Needs: Therapy Culture and the ‘Happiness Turn’ 7. Rationality Potentials of Intimacy: In Search of a Critical Pulse 8. The Critic’s Role: Debating Nancy Fraser’s Feminism 9. Learning from the Budapest School Women: The Politics of Need Interpretation Conclusion

About the author

Pauline Johnson is Associate Professor of Sociology at Macquarie University Australia. She is the author of Marxist Aesthetics and Habermas: Rescuing the Public Sphere and Feminism as Radical Humanism, and co-editor of Culture and Enlightenment: Essays for György Markus and Modern Privacies: Shifting Boundaries, New Forms.

Summary

Critique in a Neoliberal Age brings a critique of ideology to main debates within economic sociology, populism studies, the neoliberal university, therapy culture, contemporary intimacies and feminism.

Product details

• Authors: Johnson, Pauline Johnson, Johnson Pauline
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.12.2019
• EAN: 9781472460998
• ISBN: 978-1-4724-6099-8
• No. of pages: 158
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Gender studies, gender groups, Political science and theory