Craig Browne

TL;DR: The authors investigates the manner in which anti-austerity protests constitute practical negations of capitalist legitimacy, arguing that they contribute to personal and social empowerment, as well as to radical democratization.

TL;DR: The authors assesses the extent to which the category of hope assists in preserving and redefining the vestiges of utopian thought in critical social theory, arguing that the current philosophical and everyday interest in social hope can be traced to the limited capacity of liberal conceptions of freedom to articulate a vision of social transformation apposite to contemporary suffering and indignity.

TL;DR: The notion of permanent critique has been defined as a methodology that underpins theoretical diagnoses of contemporary society, based on its linking norm, and has been a defining feature of the programme of critical social theory as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The political is changing its shape as discussed by the authors, and the political is no longer stable, but instead build hybrid combinations. Populism is getting popular. In addition, there are new forms of political experiences,...

TL;DR: The authors argue that Boltanski's pragmatic sociology makes an important contribution to two central concerns of critical theory: the empirical analysis of the contradictions and conflicts of critical theories, and the analysis of conflicts among critical theories.