Critique As Social Practice - Critical Theory and Social Self-Understanding

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Robin Celikates, Celikates Robin
• Assisted by: Naomi van Steenbergen (Translation), Naomi van Steenbergen (Translation)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9781786604620
• ISBN: 978-1-78660-462-0
• No. of pages: 238
• Series: Essex Studies in Contemporary Critical Theory; Essex Studies in Contemporary; Essex Studies in Contemporary; Essex Studies in Contemporary Critical Theory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Western philosophy from c 1800, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -