Since the linguistic turn in Frankfurt School critical theory
during the 1970s, philosophical concerns have become increasingly
important to its overall agenda, at the expense of concrete
social-scientific inquiries. At the same time, each of the
individual social sciences???especially economics and psychology,
but also political science and sociology???have been moving further
and further away from the challenge key representatives of the
so-called ???first generation??? of Frankfurt School critical
theorists (Adorno, Horkheimer, and Marcuse) identified as central
to the promise and responsibility of social science: to illuminate
those dimensions of modern societies that prevent the
reconciliation of facts and norms. As professional disciplines,
each individual social science, and even philosophy, is prone to
ignoring both the actuality and the relevance for research of
alienation and reification as the mediating processes that
constitute the reference frames for critical theory. Consequently,
mainstream social-scientific research tends to ???progress??? in
the hypothetical: we study the social world as if alienation,
reification, and more recent incarnations of those mediating
processes had lost their shaping force???while, in the context of
globalization, their manifestations are ever more apparent, and
tangible. The chapters included in this volume of Current
Perspectives in Social Theory highlight the problematic nature of
mainstream perspectives, and the growing need to reaffirm how the
specific kind of critique the early Frankfurt School theorists
advocated is not less, but far more important today.
Contributions examine the links between political geographies
andglobalization; Marxism and public sociology; anti-Semitic
workers and Jewish stereotypes; governmental rationality and state
power; restricted ???eros??? and contemporary politics; Marcuse and
the psycho-politics of transformation; contemporary theory and
consumer society; and the theory of C. Wright Mills.
*Nine chapters from some of the most respected personalities in the
field
*A broad and diverse look at social science and critical
threory
General
| Imprint: |
JAI Press Inc.
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Current Perspectives in Social Theory |
| Release date: |
June 2008 |
| First published: |
June 2008 |
| Editors: |
Harry F. Dahms
|
| Dimensions: |
234 x 156 x 23mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
414 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-7623-1483-6 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Sociology, social studies >
Social theory
|
| LSN: |
0-7623-1483-4 |
| Barcode: |
9780762314836 |
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