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Critical Theory and Social Transformation: Crises of the Present and Future Possibilities book cover

1st Edition

Critical Theory and Social Transformation Crises of the Present and Future Possibilities

By Gerard Delanty Copyright 2020
258 Pages
by Routledge

258 Pages
by Routledge

258 Pages
by Routledge
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Critical Theory and Social Transformation provides an exploration of the major themes in critical social theory of recent years. Delanty argues that a critical theory perspective can offer much-needed insights into the pressing socio-political challenges of our time. In this volume , he advances the need to reconnect social theory and social research and to return to the foundational concerns... Read more

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 Critical Social Theory

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

Biography

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).

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