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Critical theory
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TL;DR: A crucial break emerged in the 1980s, in the context of a historical materialist problematic of social transformation that deploys many of the insights of the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Situated within a historical materialist problematic of social transformation that deploys many of the insights of the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci, a crucial break emerged, in the 1980s, in the...
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01 Jan 1993
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a critical interpretation of Marx, Weber, and Durkheim's political sociology, focusing on the production and reproduction of social life and the question of action and structure.
Abstract: Acknowledgements - Abbreviations - Introduction - PART 1 ENCOUNTERS WITH THE CLASSICAL TRADITIONS - Critical Interpretations of Marx - The Political Context of Max Weber's Sociology - Durkheim's Political Sociology - Marx, Weber and Capitalism - PART 2 PROBLEMS OF ACTION AND STRUCTURE - Social Theory and the Question of Action - The Production and Reproduction of Social Life - The Concept of Structure - Structure, Action, Reproduction - Lay Knowledge and Technical Concepts - Structural Theory and Empirical Research - PART 3 TIME, AND SPACE - Time-Space, Structure, System - Time-Space Distanciation - Analysing Social Change - The Production of Everyday Life - PART 4 DOMINATION AND POWER - Parsons on Power - Critique of Foucault - Class Structuration - Class and Power - Administrative Power and the Nation-State - The Nation-State and Military Power - PART 5 THE NATURE OF MODERNITY - A 'Discontinuist' Approach - Dynamic Tendencies of Modernity - Trust and Risk in Social Life - Modernity and Self-Identity - Love and Sexuality - PART 6 CRITICAL THEORY - Max Weber on Facts and Values - Critical Theory Without Guarantees - Utopian Realism - Emancipatory and Life Politics - Selected Bibliography - Index
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01 Jan 1994
TL;DR: The poststructuralist approach, however, eschews two questionable assumptions of anarchism, that human beings have an (essentially benign) essence and that power is always repressive, never productive.
Abstract: The political writings of the French poststructuralists have eluded articulation in the broader framework of general political philosophy primarily because of the pervasive tendency to define politics along a single parameter: the balance between state power and individual rights in liberalism and the focus on economic justice as a goal in Marxism. What poststructuralists like Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, and Jean-Francois Lyotard offer instead is a political philosophy that can be called tactical: it emphasizes that power emerges from many different sources and operates along many different registers. This approach has roots in traditional anarchist thought, which sees the social and political field as a network of intertwined practices with overlapping political effects. The poststructuralist approach, however, eschews two questionable assumptions of anarchism, that human beings have an (essentially benign) essence and that power is always repressive, never productive. After positioning poststructuralist political thought against the background of Marxism and the traditional anarchism of Bakunin, Kropotkin, and Proudhon, Todd May shows what a tactical political philosophy like anarchism looks like shorn of its humanist commitments-namely, a poststructuralist anarchism. The book concludes with a defense, contra Habermas and Critical Theory, of poststructuralist political thought as having a metaethical structure allowing for positive ethical commitments.
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04 Jun 2012
TL;DR: Fischer and Gottweis as mentioned in this paper revisited the argumentative turn toward Deliberative democracy and public participation in the planning process and the Internet as a space for policy deliberation.
Abstract: Introduction: The Argumentative Turn Revisited / Frank Fischer and Herbert Gottweis 1 Part I. Deliberative Policy Argumentation and Public Participation 1. Fostering Deliberation in the Forum and Beyond / John S. Dryzek and Carolyn M. Hendriks 31 2. Performing Place Governance Collaboratively: Planning as a Communicative Process / Patsy Healey 58 Part II. Discursive Politics and Argumentative Practices: Institutions and Frames 3. Discursive Institutionalism: Scope, Dynamics, and Philosophical Underpinnings / Vivien A. Schmidt 85 4. From Policy Frames to Discursive Politics: Feminist Approaches to Development Policy and Planning in an Era of Globalization / Mary Hawkesworth 114 Part III. Policy Argumentation on the Internet and in Film 5. The Internet as a Space for Policy Deliberation / Stephen Coleman 149 6. Multimedia and Urban Narratives in the Planning Process: Film as Social Inquiry and Dialogue Catalyst / Leonie Sandercock and Giovanni Attili 180 Part IV. Policy Rhetoric, Argumentation, and Semiotics 7. Political Rhetoric and Stem Cell Policy in the United States: Embodiments, Scenographics, and Emotions / Herbert Gottweis 211 8. The Deep Semiotic Structure of Deservingness: Discourse and Identity in Welfare Policy / Sanford F. Schram 236 Part V. Policy Argumentation in Critical Theory and Practice: Communicative Logics and Policy Learning 9. The Argumentative Turn toward Deliberative Democracy: Habermas's Contribution and the Foucauldian Critique / Hubertus Buchstein and Dirk Joerke 271 10. Poststructuralist Policy Analysis: Discourse, Hegemony, and Critical Explanation / David Howarth and Steven Griggs 305 11. Transformative Learning in Planning and Policy Deliberation: Probing Social Meaning and Tacit Assumptions / Frank Fischer and Alan Mandell 343 Contributors 371 Index 375
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