Globalization, critique and social theory diagnoses and challenges /

• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Dahms, Harry F.
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2015.
• Σειρά: Current perspectives in social theory ; v. 33.
• Θέματα: Social Science > Sociology > General.; Political Science > Globalization.; Social theory.; Globalization.; Social sciences > Philosophy.

In recent years, under the impression and the burden of globalization and neoliberalism, debates about the relationship between the theory and practice of progress - including the theory and practice of social critique - have gone through an unexpected and momentous revival, renewal and rejuvenation...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• The task of critical theory today : rethinking the critique of capitalism and its futures / Moishe Postone
• Profit maxims : capitalism and the common sense of time and money / David Norman Smith
• Theorizing modern society as an inverted reality : how critical theory and indigenous critiques of globalization must learn from each other / Asafa Jalata, Harry F. Dahms
• The neo-idealist paradigm shift in contemporary critical theory / Michael J. Thompson
• toward a critical ontology of the social : Hegel, Luka<U+0301>cs, and the challenge of mediation / Reha Kadakal
• Critical theory and practice : bridging the global and the Personal. A lecture / Courtney Jung
• Call for a new social theory : re-igniting radical imagination / James E. Block
• Imperial homunculi : the speculative singularities of American hegemony (drones, suicide bombers, and rampage killers, or, an excursion into Durkheimian geometry) / Mark P. Worrell
• How legends become brands : the culture industry in the second enclosure movement / Daniel Krier, William J. Swart
• Thick description, nomological laws and ideal types : which methodology helps most with praxis? / J.I. (Hans) Bakker.