Gerard Delanty

Critical Theory and Social Transformation (eBook, ePUB)

Crises of the Present and Future Possibilities

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book shows how a critical theory perspective can offer new insights into our time. It also provides a succinct case for the revival of what was the original aim of the critical theory tradition, namely the link between philosophy and social research.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000037326
• Artikelnr.: 58714908

Autorenporträt

Gerard Delanty is Professor of Sociology and Social and Political Thought at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. He is the author of eleven books, including Inventing Europe: Idea, Identity, Reality (1995), The Cosmopolitan Imagination (2009), Formations of European Modernity: A Historical and Political Sociology of Europe, 2nd edition (2018). He has edited numerous volumes, including the Routledge Handbook of Cosmopolitanism Studies, 2nd edition (2018). His most recent book is The European Heritage: A Critical Re-interpretation (2018).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1: Critical Theory Revisited 1. Spectres of Critique: The Legacy of the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School 2. Critical Engagements: Varieties of Critique in Social Science 3. Critical Theory and Social Transformation: Modernity, Capitalism and Technology Part 2: Capitalism, Cosmopolitanism, the Anthropocene 4. Questioning Homo Economicus: Have we all Become Neoliberals? 5. Imagining the Future of Capitalism: Trends, Scenarios and Prospects for the Future 6. The Prospects of Cosmopolitanism and the Possibility of Global Justice: New Directions for Critical Social Theory 7. Cosmopolitics and the Challenge of the Anthropocene: The New Politics of Nature Part 3: Space, Memory and Legacies of History 8. The Future of Public Space: Crisis and Renewal 9. Modernity and Memory: Historical Self-Understanding and the Burden of the Past 10. Looking Back at the Twentieth Century: Europe's Contested Legacies of History 11. The Crisis of the Present: Authoritarianism and Social Pathologies 12. Conclusion: On the Future