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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461645203321

Autore

Heins Volker <1957->

Titolo

Beyond friend and foe [[electronic resource] ] : the politics of critical theory / / by Volker Heins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden [The Netherlands] ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2011

ISBN

1-283-11979-X

9786613119797

90-04-19468-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (269 p.)

Collana

Social and critical theory : a critical horizons book series, , 1572-459X ; ; v. 9

Disciplina

301.01

Soggetti

Critical theory - Political aspects

Frankfurt school of sociology

Sociology - Political aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Knowing the worst : critical theory as trauma narrative -- From factions to rackets : the traps of conspiracy thinking -- Flaneurs without borders : Benjamin and the cultural politics of travel writing -- Meanings of barbarism : civil society and its others -- Orientalizing America : Habermas and the changing discourse of Europe -- Age of access? : the place of property in critical theory -- Realizing Honneth : redistribution, recognition, and global justice -- From persons to peoples : the politics of recognition in international society.

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides a thematic account of the changing political philosophy of critical theorists from Adorno to Habermas and Honneth. In addition to teasing out unexplored elements of political thought from the writings of important Frankfurt School intellectuals and their successors, the book seeks to establish the relevance of this tradition for contemporary political theory. Readers are offered an inside perspective, developed out of primary texts including some hitherto unused sources, which is combined with the outside perspective of non-Frankfurt School traditions such as cultural sociology. Heins



presents a fresh reading of Critical Theory in ways that remind us both of what this theory is and what it can be.