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Simon Susen
Researcher at City University London
Publications - 104
Citations - 1729
Simon Susen is an academic researcher from City University London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Critical theory & Social theory. The author has an hindex of 22, co-authored 98 publications receiving 1561 citations. Previous affiliations of Simon Susen include Birkbeck, University of London & Newcastle University.
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Critical Notes on Habermas's Theory of the Public Sphere
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine Habermas's account of the transformation of the public sphere in modern society, and demonstrate that, whilst Habe rmas's approach succeeds in offering useful insights into the structural transformation of public spheres in the early modern period, it does not provide an adequate theoretical framework for understanding the structural transformations in late modern societies.
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Kritische Gesellschaftstheorie or Kritische Gesellschaftspraxis ? Robin Celikates, Kritik als soziale Praxis. Gesellschaftliche Selbstverständigung und kritische Theorie (Frankfurt am Main, Campus Verlag, 2009).
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an overview of the main arguments and contributions, as well as several noteworthy shortcomings and limitations of Kritik als soziale Praxis.
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Bourdieusian Reflections on Language: Unavoidable Conditions of the Real Speech Situation
TL;DR: The main purpose of as mentioned in this paper is to shed light on Pierre Bourdieu's conception of language, which is based on a number of ontological presuppositions, that is, a set of universal assumptions about the very nature of language.
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The 'Postmodern Turn' in the Social Sciences
TL;DR: In this article, critical reflections on postmodern thought: Limitations of the "Postmodern Turn" are discussed, focusing on the following: 1. From Modern to Postmodern Epistemology? The "Relativist Turn" 2. From modern to postmodern Methodology? the "Interpretive Turn" 3.From Modern to post modern Sociology?The "Cultural Turn" 4.
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The Foundations of the Social: Between Critical Theory and Reflexive Sociology
TL;DR: In this article, Simon Susen argues that we can only identify solid grounds for social critique by identifying the grounds of the social itself, and proposes a model for the reconstruction of Habermasian critical theory and Bourdieusian reflexive sociology.