Critique as Social Practice : Critical Theory and Social Self-Understanding
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1786604639
ISBN-13
9781786604637
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield International
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Rowman & Littlefield International
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 10th, 2019
Print length
238 Pages
Weight
364 grams
Dimensions
15.20 x 22.90 x 1.20 cms
Product Classification:
PhilosophySocial & political philosophyHistory of ideas
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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.
Can critical theory diagnose ideological delusion and false consciousness from above, or does it have to follow the practices of critique ordinary agents engage in? This book argues that we have to move beyond this dichotomy, which has led to a theoretical impasse. Whilst ordinary agents engage in complex forms of everyday critique, it must remain the task of critical theory to provide analysis and critique of social conditions that obstruct the development of reflexive capacities and of their realization in corresponding practices of critique. Only an approach that is at the same time non-paternalistic, pragmatist, and dialogical as well as critical will be able to realize the emancipatory potential of the Frankfurt School tradition of critical theory in radically changing social circumstances.
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