Critical Theory of Public Life - Knowledge, Discourse and Politics in an Age of Decline

Zusammenfassung This text collects together Ben Agger's essays on the origins, significance and applications of critical theory - a perspective associated with the Frankfurt School. The essays address a variety of topics including the viability of Marxist theory and new social movements. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Critical Theory Goes Public; Part 1 The Literary Production of Discipline; Chapter 1 Critical Theory, Poststructuralism, Postmodernism; Chapter 2 Marxism, Feminism, Deconstruction: Writing the Social; Chapter 3 Reading/Writing Otherwise: Radical Hermeneutics as Critical Theory; Chapter 4 Aporias of Academic Production; Part 2 Critical Theory and The Social Problems of Modernity; Chapter 6 The Dialectic of Deindustrialization; Chapter 7 The Dialectic of Desire; Chapter 8 The Dialectic of Dialogue; Chapter 9 Theorizing the Decline of Discourse or the Decline of Theoretical Discourse?; Chapter 10 Postmodernity as a Social Problem;

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• Authors: Ben Agger, Agger Ben
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.11.2017
• EAN: 9781138468184
• ISBN: 978-1-138-46818-4
• No. of pages: 244
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Sociology & anthropology, Sociology and anthropology