Critique as Social Practice: Critical Theory and Social Self-Understanding by Celikates, Robin

Critique as Social Practice: Critical Theory and Social Self-Understanding (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781786604637)

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Critique as Social Practice: Critical Theory and Social Self-Understanding by Celikates, Robin

Critique as Social Practice: Critical Theory and Social Self-Understanding

$48.00
Critique as Social Practice: Critical Theory and Social Self-Understanding by Celikates, Robin

Critique as Social Practice: Critical Theory and Social Self-Understanding

$48.00
Format: Paperback
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Can critical theory diagnose ideological delusion and false consciousness from above, or does it have to follow the practices of critique ordinary agents engage in? This book argues that we have to move beyond this dichotomy, which has led to a theoretical impasse. Whilst ordinary agents engage in complex forms of everyday critique, it must remain the task of critical theory to provide analysis and critique of social conditions that obstruct the development of reflexive capacities and of their realization in corresponding practices of critique. Only an approach that is at the same time non-paternalistic, pragmatist, and dialogical as well as critical will be able to realize the emancipatory potential of the Frankfurt School tradition of critical theory in radically changing social circumstances.

Author: Robin Celikates
ISBN-10: 1786604639
ISBN-13: 9781786604637
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Language: English
Published: 09/10/2019
Pages: 238
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.54d
By Robin Celikates
By Robin Celikates
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Robin Celikates is Professor of Social Philosophy at the Free University Berlin.

Naomi van Steenbergen is a Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer at Utrecht University, Netherlands.

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