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Critical theory and the political

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The book explores whether critical theory constitutes a political argument for modernity as well as an argument for politics within modernity.Each contributor presents a focal point of research and...
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The book addresses what is political in critical theory and which aspects, arguments or notions of critical theory maintain political significance for the 20th and the 21st centuries. The collection of essays comprises itself of a series of clear and critical perspectives that analyze the extent to which critical theory relates political argument to modern societies and, thereby, exerts a critique of the multiple social and political phenomena of late modernity. The contributors focus on a multiplicity of universal phenomena such as globalization, multiple crises, late capitalism and the social role of the sciences, and posit some novel criticism of the contemporary social sphere, as it is situated within the wider system of global capitalism. They also present a plurivalent critique that links arguments in Marxism and Freud to all three generations of critical theory.
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Price: £90.00
Pages: 276
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Series: Critical Theory and Contemporary Society
Publication Date: 05 May 2026
ISBN: 9781526172624
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:

PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory, Critical theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, Social theory, Political science and theory
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Preface by Darrow Schecter

Introduction

Part I: Essential political notions of critical theory
Critique, negation, politics – Stephen Eric Bronner Between ideals and realism: On the ‘political’ in Max Horkheimer’s early thought – Malte Froslee Ibsen
Part II: Democracy
3. Critical theory and democracy: From Kant to Habermas and then back to the Dialectic of Enlightenment – Anastasia Marinopoulou
On the ambivalent effects of politicising justice – Esther Neuhann
Part III: Political power, civil society and globalisation
From the critique of power to critical institutionalism – Hubertus Buchstein Guardians of legitimacy: Habermas on civil disobedience as radical democratic practice – Jeffrey Flynn 7. Can housing be unfair? Towards a critical theory of injustice – Regina Kreide

Part IV: Epistemology and the political
8. Critical theory and the realist critique of normative political theory – Kenneth Baynes
9. Power, reasons, and ideology: On the epistemology and metaphysics of noumenal power – Matteo Bianchin

Part V: Praxis, public sphere and political communication
10. The limits of critical democratic theory regarding structural transformations in twenty-first century left politics – David Ingram
New challenges for critical theory: Deliberative public sphere and political communication in the new hybrid media system – Luca Corchia
Postscript by Joshua Clover