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1 online resource (217 pages). |
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New Directions in Critical Theory
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New directions in critical theory.
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| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Introduction: Politics of Culture and the Spirit of Critique; 1. Critical Theory Today: Politics, Ethics, Culture -- Opening Dialogue; 2. Concrete Universality and Critical Social Theory: Dialogue with Alfredo Gomez-Muller and Gabriel Rockhill; 3. Global Justice and the Renewal of the Critical Theory Tradition: Dialogue with Alfredo Gomez-Muller and Gabriel Rockhill; CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON CULTURAL POLITICS; 4. Accounting for a Philosophic Itinerary: Genealogies of Power and Ethics of Nonviolence: Dialogue with Alfredo Gomez-Muller and Gabriel Rockhill. |
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5. The Present in the Light of the Longue Duree: Dialogue with Alredo Gomez-Muller and Gabriel Rockhill6. A Prisoner of Hope in the Night of the American Empire: Dialogue with Gabriel Rockhill; CULTURE AS CRITIQUE: The Limits of Liberalism?; 7. Liberalism: Politics, Ethics, and Markets -- Dialogue with Alfredo Gomez-Muller and Ronan Sharkey; 8. Cultural Rights and Social-Democratic Principles: Dialogue with Alfredo Gomez-Muller and Gabriel Rockhill; EPILOGUE: Critical Theory and Recognition. |
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9. The Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School and the Theory of Recognition: Dialogue with Olivier VoirolNotes; Contributors. |
| Summary |
The idea of ""culture"" has become central to intellectual debates since at least the end of the 1970s, with the reemergence of longstanding cultural issues becoming an indispensible part of moral and political critique. Additionally, the meaning of culture has expanded beyond its earlier, anthropological meaning to include issues of ethnicity, race, religion, gender, and sexual orientation. Whether informing arguments about a ""clash of civilizations"" or underscoring the importance of ""mainstream multiculturalism, "" inflated notions of culture are ubiquitous, and their prevale. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Social sciences -- Philosophy.
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Social sciences -- Philosophy. |
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Electronic books.
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Rockhill, Gabriel.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gomez-Muller, Alfredo. Politics of Culture and the Spirit of Critique : Dialogues. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2011 9780231151870 |
| ISBN |
9780231526364 (electronic book) |
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0231526369 (electronic book) |
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9780231152006 |
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9780231151863 |
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0231151861 |
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9780231151870 |
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023115187X |
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0231152000 |
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9780231152013 |
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0231152019 |
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EB00662652 Recorded Books |
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