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No Social Science without Critical Theory (Paperback)
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No Social Science without Critical Theory (Paperback)
Series: Current Perspectives in Social Theory
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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 forcewhile, 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 and globalization; 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. This book includes nine chapters from
some of the most respected personalities in the field and a broad
and diverse look at social science and critical theory.
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Imprint: |
Emerald Publishing Limited
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Current Perspectives in Social Theory |
Release date: |
August 2012 |
First published: |
2008 |
Editors: |
Harry F. Dahms
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 21mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
401 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-78190-154-0 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Sociology, social studies >
Social theory
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LSN: |
1-78190-154-6 |
Barcode: |
9781781901540 |
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