Critical Theory in Critical Times

Transforming the Global Political and Economic Order
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-0-231-18151-8
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 230 mm x 155 mm, Gewicht: 460 g

Reihe: New Directions in Critical Theory

We live in critical times. We face a global crisis in economics and finance, a global ecological crisis, and a constant barrage of international disputes. Perhaps most dishearteningly, there seems to be little faith in our ability to address such difficult problems. However, there is also a more positive sense in which these are critical times. The world's current state of flux gives us a unique window of opportunity for shaping a new international order that will allow us to cope with current and future global crises.

In Critical Theory in Critical Times, eleven of the most distinguished critical theorists offer new perspectives on recent crises and transformations of the global political and economic order. Essays from Jürgen Habermas, Seyla Benhabib, Cristina Lafont, Rainer Forst, Wendy Brown, Christoph Menke, Nancy Fraser, Rahel Jaeggi, Amy Allen, Penelope Deutscher, and Charles Mills address some of the most urgent and important challenges of our times, including international human rights and democratic sovereignty, global neoliberalism, new approaches to the critique of capitalism, critical theory's Eurocentric heritage, and new directions offered by critical race theory and postcolonial studies. Sharpening the conceptual tools of critical theory, the contributors to Critical Theory in Critical Times reveal new ways of expanding the diverse traditions of the Frankfurt School in response to some of the most urgent and important challenges of our times.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Deutscher, Penelope

Lafont, Cristina

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Über Autor(innen)

Penelope Deutscher is professor of philosophy, codirector of the Critical Theory Cluster, and a faculty member of the Gender Studies, Rhetoric and Public Culture, Comparative Literature, and Science in Human Culture Programs at Northwestern University. She is the author and editor of a number of books, including Foucault/Derrida and Foucault's Children, both from Columbia University Press.

Cristina Lafont is professor of philosophy at Northwestern University. She is the author of The Linguistic Turn in Hermeneutic Philosophy, Heidegger, Language, and World-Disclosure, and Global Governance and Human Rights and coeditor of The Habermas Handbook.