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Rethinking Critical Theory Larry Ray

Rethinking Critical Theory par Larry Ray

Rethinking Critical Theory Larry Ray


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Intended for academics and students in social theory, sociology and social philosophy, this book assesses critical theory, particularly that of Jurgen Habermas, and describes the challenges posed to contemporary critical theory by global social change.

Rethinking Critical Theory Résumé

Rethinking Critical Theory: Emancipation in the Age of Global Social Movements Larry Ray

In this broad-ranging text, Ray assesses Critical Theory, particularly that of J[um]urgen Habermas. Developing an analysis of such ideas as the public sphere, communicative action and the colonization of the lifeworld, he examines the insights that Critical Theory can offer global analysis and the challenges to Critical Theory from global social change.

In a detailed discussion of post-communist eastern Europe, Islamic revivalism in Iran and the liberation struggle in South Africa, the author argues that modernity is poised between the threat of authoritarian politics of identity on one hand and the promise of opening up new democratic communicative organizations on the other.

Rethinking Critical Theory Avis

`This volume is a preliminary but welcome attempt to extend the analysis of Critical Theory beyond its familiar terrain of Western Europe and North America.... Ray makes a valuable contribution by emphasizing that the colonization of the lifeworld can produce not only movements which challenge the existing system of regulation, but those which aim to protect it as well.... Ray surely has accomplished his modest goal of `opening up analysis to productive interrogation'' - Political Studies

`Will be of interest both to social theorists and to comparative sociologists and while it may be different parts of the book which attract their initial interest, readers will be repaid for following the argument through to its conclusion' - British Journal of Sociology

`Ray's revision of Habermas's critical theory is profound and a success' - Choice

À propos de Larry Ray

I joined the University of Kent in 1998. Before that I was in the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University. In 1996, I was visiting scholar, Victoria University Wellington, New Zealand. At Kent I was Head of the Department of Sociology and then SSPSSR between 1999-2001, and Sub-Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences between 2009-11. I am currently Director of Research for SSPSSR.

Sommaire

Introduction Marx, Critical Theory and Social Movements PART ONE Authority and Tradition From Praxis to Communication Communication and Evolution Social Movements and the Lifeworld PART TWO Introduction Legitimation in Peripheral States The Crisis of State Socialism Islamic Jacobins State, 'Race' and Regulation Conclusion Modernity's Unfinished Business

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GOR004754800
9780803983649
0803983646
Rethinking Critical Theory: Emancipation in the Age of Global Social Movements Larry Ray
Occasion - Très bon état
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SAGE Publications Ltd
1993-06-10
224
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