The End of Immanent Critique

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The End of Immanent Critique

Craig Browne¹•Institutions (1)

University of Sydney¹

01 Feb 2008-European Journal of Social Theory (SAGE Publications)-Vol. 11, Iss: 1, pp 5-24

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.

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Abstract: Immanent critique has been a defining feature of the programme of critical social theory. It is a methodology that underpins theoretical diagnoses of contemporary society, based on its linking norm...

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The archaeology of knowledge

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Gary Gutting

01 Sep 1989

TL;DR: We may not be able to make you love reading, but archaeology of knowledge will lead you to love reading starting from now as mentioned in this paper, and book is the window to open the new world.

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Abstract: We may not be able to make you love reading, but archaeology of knowledge will lead you to love reading starting from now. Book is the window to open the new world. The world that you want is in the better stage and level. World will always guide you to even the prestige stage of the life. You know, this is some of how reading will give you the kindness. In this case, more books you read more knowledge you know, but it can mean also the bore is full.

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The Postnational Constellation

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Frank Ankersmit

01 Apr 2004-Common Knowledge

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超越左与右 : 激进政治的未来 = Beyond Left and Right : the future of radical politics

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Anthony Giddens, 惠斌李, 雪冬杨

01 Jan 2003

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the social revolution of our time and two theories of Democratization: Generative Politics and Positive Welfare, Poverty and Life Values, and Modernity under a Negative Sign: Ecological Issues and Life Politics.

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Abstract: Preface. Introduction. 1. Conservatism: Radicalism Embraced. 2. Socialism: The Retreat from Radicalism. 3. The Social Revolutions of Our Time. 4. Two Theories of Democratization. 5. Contradictions of the Welfare State. 6. Generative Politics and Positive Welfare. 7. Positive Welfare, Poverty and Life Values. 8. Modernity under a Negative Sign: Ecological Issues and Life Politics. 9. Political Theory and the Problem of Violence. 10. Questions of Agency and Values. Notes. Index.

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Globalization or Empire

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Agnes I. Caldwell

01 Nov 2006-Contemporary Sociology

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Discourse analysis as immanent critique: Possibilities and limits of normative critique in empirical discourse studies:

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Benno Herzog¹•Institutions (1)

University of Valencia¹

07 Mar 2016-Discourse & Society

TL;DR: Although discourse analysts often conceive of their work as critical, there is little theoretical discussion regarding the possibility of normative critique in the scientific community of discourse as mentioned in this paper, and there is no theoretical discussion about the need for normative critique.

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Abstract: Although discourse analysts often conceive of their work as critical, there is little theoretical discussion regarding the possibility of normative critique in the scientific community of discourse...

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...…of immanent critique – a normative position that is developed from existing society that not only reveals prospects for social change but also contributes to that change – represents a solution to the problem of how to justify normative critique (see also Browne, 2008; Romero, 2013; Stahl, 2013b)....
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...…the notion that immanent critique means revealing the contradiction between socially accepted claims and reality, these contradictions have always been necessary ones in Critical Theory (Browne, 2008), in which ‘necessary’ refers to those contradictions that inevitably arise from the social order....
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...Contrary to the notion that immanent critique means revealing the contradiction between socially accepted claims and reality, these contradictions have always been necessary ones in Critical Theory (Browne, 2008), in which ‘necessary’ refers to those contradictions that inevitably arise from the social order....
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The consequences of modernity

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Anthony Giddens

01 Jan 1990

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a Phenomonology of modernity and post-modernity in the context of trust in abstract systems and the transformation of intimacy in the modern world.

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Abstract: Part I:. Introduction. The Discontinuities of Modernity. Security and Danger, Trust and Risk. Sociology and Modernity. Modernity, Time and Space. Disembedding. Trust. The Reflexivity of Modernity. Modernity and Post-- Modernity?. Summary. Part II:. The Institutional Dimensions of Modernity. The Globalizing of Modernity. Two Theoretical Perspectives. Dimensions of Globalization. Part III:. Trust and Modernity. Trust in Abstract Systems. Trust and Expertise. Trust and Ontological Security. The Pre--Modern and Modern. Part IV:. Abstract Systems and the Transformation of Intimacy. Trust and Personal Relations. Trust and Personal Identity. Risk and Danger in the Modern World. Risk and Ontological Security. Adaptive Reactions. A Phenomonology of Modernity. Deskilling and Reskilling in Everyday Life. Objections to Post--Modernity. Part V:. Riding the Juggernaut. Utopian Realism. Future Orientations. The Role of Social Movements. Post--Modernity. Part VI: . Is Modernity and Western Project?. Concluding Observations. Notes.

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"The End of Immanent Critique" refers background in this paper

...Further, as a consequence, fear becomes the principal means for mobilizing social solidarity, while Giddens (1990, 1999) proposes that knowledge claims cannot dissolve the modern experience of fragility and uncertainty, because reflexive interrogation renews the dynamism of modernity and the…...
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...…difficulties that social complexity poses for social critique, globalization involves novel elements, with the institutionalization of disembedding mechanisms and the exacerbating gradations of class and other transnational capitalist asymmetrical interdependencies (Appadurai, 1996; Giddens, 1990)....
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...Rather, reflexivity is a mundane feature of the post-traditional social order, where ‘social practices are constantly examined and reformed in light of incoming information about those practices’ (Giddens, 1990: 39)....
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...In Giddens’s opinion, radical politics should be framed by a ‘utopian realism’ that appreciates the fallibility of critique, since the ‘equation of knowledge with certitude has turned out to be misconceived’ (Giddens, 1990: 39, 1994a)....
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...Owing to critique’s participation in the projection of future scenarios, Giddens claims that a critical theory relevant to late-modernity is ‘without guarantees’ (Giddens, 1985, 1990)....
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The postmodern condition : a report on knowledge

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Jean-François Lyotard

01 Jan 1984

TL;DR: In this article, the status of science, technology, and the arts, the significance of technocracy, and how the flow of information is controlled in the Western world are discussed.

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Abstract: Many definitions of postmodernism focus on its nature as the aftermath of the modern industrial age when technology developed. This book extends that analysis to postmodernism by looking at the status of science, technology, and the arts, the significance of technocracy, and the way the flow of information is controlled in the Western world.

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The Theory of Communicative Action

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Jürgen Habermas, Thomas McCarthy

01 Jan 1981

TL;DR: In this article, an apex seal for a rotary combustion engine is disclosed having a hollow, thin wall, tubular, metal core member embedded in an extruded composite metal-carbon matrix, adapted to slideably engage the slot of the rotor in which it rides and sealingly engage the rotor housing against which it is spring and gas pressure biased.

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Abstract: In a preferred embodiment an apex seal for a rotary combustion engine is disclosed having a hollow, thin wall, tubular, metal core member embedded in an extruded composite metal-carbon matrix. The seal is adapted to slidably engage the slot of the rotor in which it rides, and to sealingly engage the rotor housing against which it is spring and gas pressure biased. The incorporation of the hollow tubular core in the extruded seal permits a reduction in weight with no significant loss in flexural strength or wear resistance. It also provides gas pressure balance, end to end.

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Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life

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Giorgio Agamben

01 Jan 1998

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the logic of sovereignty and the paradox of sovereignty in the form of the human sacer and the notion of potentiality and potentiality-and-law.

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Abstract: Introduction Part I. The Logic of Sovereignty: 1. The paradox of sovereignty 2. 'Nomos Basileus' 3. Potentiality and law 4. Form of law Threshold Part II. Homo Sacer: 1. Homo sacer 2. The ambivalence of the sacred 3. Sacred life 4. 'Vitae Necisque Potestas' 5. Sovereign body and sacred body 6. The ban and the wolf Threshold Part III. The Camp as Biopolitical Paradigm of the Modern: 1. The politicization of life 2. Biopolitics and the rights of man 3. Life that does not deserve to live 4. 'Politics, or giving form to the life of a people' 5. VP 6. Politicizing death 7. The camp as the 'Nomos' of the modern Threshold Bibliography Index of names.

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"The End of Immanent Critique" refers background in this paper

...The latter trend can be seen to precipitate shifts towards ‘bare life’ and struggles for existence (Agamben, 1998)....
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...The fact that different schools of thinking about perceptions of emergencies and ‘states of exception’ involve quite different politics is telling (Agamben, 1998, 2005)....
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The Archaeology of Knowledge.

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F. C. T. Moore, Michel Foucault, A. M. Sheridan Smith

01 Jun 1974

TL;DR: In this article, the authors define the Statement and the Archive and define the Enunciative Function 3. The Description of Staements 4. Contradictions 5. Change and Transformations 6. The Formation of Concepts 7. Conclusion Conclusion Index

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Abstract: Part I: Introduction. Part II: The Discursive Regularities 1. The Unities of Discourse 2. Discursive Formations 3. The Formation of Objects 4. The Formation of Enunciative Modalities 5. The Formation of Concepts 6. The Formation of Strategies 7. Remarks and Cosequences Part III The Statement and the Archive 1. Defining the Statement 2. The Enunciative Function 3. The Description of Staements 4. Rarity, Exteriority, Accumilation 5. The Historical a priori and the Archive Part IV Archeological Description 1. Archeology and the History of Ideas 2. The Original and the Regular 3. Contradictions 4. The Comparative Facts 5. Change and Transformations 6. Science and Knowledge Part V: Conclusion Conclusion Index

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