Deutscher / Lafont Critical Theory in Critical Times

Transforming the Global Political and Economic Order
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-231-54362-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 7, 304 Seiten

Reihe: New Directions in Critical Theory

World-renowned specialists in contemporary critical theory address the recent crises and transformations of the global political and economic order

Autoren/Hrsg.

Deutscher, Penelope

Lafont, Cristina

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Transzendentalphilosophie, Kritizismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Critical Theory in Critical Times
Part I. The Future of Democracy
1. An Exploration of the Meaning of Transnationalization of Democracy, Using the Example of the European Union, by Jürgen Habermas
Part II. Human Rights and Sovereignty
2. Democratic Sovereignty and Transnational Law: On Legal Utopianism and Democratic Skepticism, by Seyla Benhabib
3. Human Rights, Sovereignty, and the Responsibility to Protect, by Cristina Lafont
4. A Critical Theory of Human Rights—Some Groundwork, by Rainer Forst
Part III. Political Rights in Neoliberal Times
5. Neoliberalism and the Economization of Rights, by Wendy Brown
6. Law and Domination, by Christoph Menke
Part IV. Criticizing Capitalism
7. Behind Marx's Hidden Abode: For an Expanded Conception of Capitalism, by Nancy Fraser
8. A Wide Concept of Economy: Economy as a Social Practice and the Critique of Capitalism, by Rahel Jaeggi
Part V. The End of Progress in Postcolonial Times
9. Adorno, Foucault, and the End of Progress: Critical Theory in Postcolonial Times, by Amy Allen
10. "Post-Foucault": The Critical Time of the Present, by Penelope Deutscher
11. Criticizing Critical Theory, by Charles W. Mills
Bibliography
About the Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Penelope Deutscher is Joan and Sarepta Harrison Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University. She is the author or editor of a number of books, including Foucault/Derrida Fifty Years Later (2016) and Foucault's Futures: A Critique of Reproductive Reason (2017), 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 (1999), Heidegger, Language, and World-Disclosure (2000), and Global Governance and Human Rights (2012), and coeditor of The Habermas Handbook.