Illusion and Fetishism in Critical Theory - A Study of Nietzsche, Benjamin, Castoriadis and the Situationists

Illusion and Fetishism in Critical Theory is a must read for scholars of political theory and political philosophy, critical theory, the Frankfurt School, Sociology, and in democratic theory.

List of contents

Preface Introduction 1.Alienation, Illusion, Fetishism and Non-Identity Thinking in Nietzsche’s Critical Theory 2. Negativity and Illusion in Walter Benjamin’s Dialectics 3.Cornelius Castoriadis’s Social Imaginary, Socialism and Autonomy Reconsidered. A Critical Theory Reading 4. Debunking the Illusions of the Spectacle Through Negative Dialectics. How the Open Marxism of the Situationists Cracks Capitalism

About the author

Vasilis Grollios holds a Ph.D. in political philosophy from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, where he has taken all his degrees (B.A., M.A. in the history of philosophy and Ph.D.). He was a holder of a postdoctoral fellowship with the Greek Institute of Research and Technology. He has taught at various Greek universities and conducted postdoctoral research at the University of York, UK. Grollios is the author of Negativity and Democracy. Marxism and the Critical Theory Tradition (Routledge 2017) and has been published in academic journals such as Constellations, Critical Sociology and Philosophy and Social Criticism.

Summary

Illusion and Fetishism in Critical Theory is a must read for scholars of political theory and political philosophy, critical theory, the Frankfurt School, Sociology, and in democratic theory.

Product details

• Authors: Vasilis Grollios, Grollios Vasilis
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2023
• EAN: 9781032556772
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3255677-2
• No. of pages: 206
• Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Social Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Political structures: democracy, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Political science and theory, Marxism & Communism, Political structures / systems: democracy