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Critical theory
About: Critical theory is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 5372 publications have been published within this topic receiving 164765 citations.
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28 Jul 1994
TL;DR: In this paper, the Gendered Division of Labour and Social Reproduction and Socialist Feminist Theory are discussed. But they do not consider the role of women in the division of labour.
Abstract: Introduction. 1. Gender and Modernity: Classical Issues, Contemporary Debates. 2. Rethinking the Gendered Division of Labour. 3. Social Reproduction and Socialist Feminist Theory. 4. Gendered Identities. 5. Gender Politics: Regulation and Resistance. 6. Feminist Theory as Critical Theory. Notes. References. Index.
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01 Jan 2000
TL;DR: Critique of Violence as mentioned in this paper is a highly original and lucid investigation of the heated controversy between poststructuralism and critical theory leading theorist Beatrice Hanssen uses Walter Benjamin's essay 'Critique Of Violence' as a guide to analyse the contentious debate, shifting the emphasis from struggle to dialogue between the two parties.
Abstract: Critique of Violence is a highly original and lucid investigation of the heated controversy between poststructuralism and critical theory Leading theorist Beatrice Hanssen uses Walter Benjamin's essay 'Critique of Violence' as a guide to analyse the contentious debate, shifting the emphasis from struggle to dialogue between the two parties Regarding the questions of critique and violence as the major meeting points between both traditions, Hanssen positions herself between the two in an effort to investigate what critical theory and poststructuralism have to offer each other In the course of doing so, she assembles imaginative new readings of Benjamin, Arendt, Fanon and Foucault, and incisively explores the politics of recognition, the violence of language, and the future of feminist theory This groundbreaking book will be essential reading for all students of continental philosophy, political theory, social studies and comparative literature Also available in this series: Essays on Otherness Hb: 0-415-13107-3: GBP5000 Pb: 0-415-13108-1: GBP1599 Hegel After Derrida Hb: 0-415-17104-4: GBP5000 Pb: 0-415-17105-9: GBP159 9 The Hypocritical Imagination Hb: 0-415-21361-4: GBP4750 Pb: 0-415-21362-2: GBP1599 Philosophy and Tragedy Hb: 0-415-19141-6: GBP4500 Pb: 0-415-19142-4: GBP1499 Textures of Light Hb: 0-415-14273-3: GBP4250 Pb: 0-415-14274-1: GBP1399 Very Little Almost Nothing Pb: 0-415-12821-8: GBP4750 Pb: 0-415-12822-6: GBP1599
114 citations
TL;DR: The authors argue that incorporating the pragmatist perspective on experience and indeterminacy brings a corrective to the emancipatory agenda championed by critical theorists, with the discussion centering around the following themes: disembodied reason versus embodied reasonableness, determinate being versus indeterminate reality.
Abstract: Habermas's theory breaks with the Continental tradition that has denigrated pragmatism as an Aglo-Saxon philosophy subservient to technocratic capitalism. While Habermas deftly uses pragmatist insights into communicative rationality and democratic ethos, he shows little sensitivity to other facets of pragmatism. This article argues that incorporating the pragmatist perspective on experience and indeterminacy brings a corrective to the emancipatory agenda championed by critical theorists. The pragmatist alternative to the theory of communicative action is presented, with the discussion centering around the following themes: disembodied reason versus embodied reasonableness, determinate being versus indeterminate reality, discursive truth versus pragmatic certainty, rational consensus versus reasonable dissent, transcendental democracy versus democratic transcendence, and rational society versus sane community.
112 citations
TL;DR: The authors argue that all social reality is subject to historical change, a normative discourse of understandings and values entails corresponding practices, and that social theory must include interpretation and dialectical critique.
Abstract: The discipline of international relations faces a new debate of fundamental significance. After the realist challenge to the pervasive idealism of the interwar years and the social scientific argument against realism in the late 1950s, it is now the turn of critical theorists to dispute the established paradigms of international politics, having been remarkably successful in several other fields of social inquiry. In essence, critical theorists claim that all social reality is subject to historical change, that a normative discourse of understandings and values entails corresponding practices, and that social theory must include interpretation and dialectical critique. In international relations, this approach particularly critiques the ahistorical, scientific, and materialist conceptions offered by neorealists. Traditional realists, by contrast, find a little more sympathy in the eyes of critical theorists because they join them in their rejection of social science and structural theory. With regard to liberal institutionalism, critical theorists are naturally sympathetic to its communitarian component while castigating its utilitarian strand as the accomplice of neorealism. Overall, the advent of critical theory will thus focus the field of international relations on its “interparadigm debate” with neorealism.
111 citations
TL;DR: The authors characterizes and compares knowledge, power, and learning in critical and post-modern theoretical worldviews, and characterizes the relationship between power, knowledge, and power in theoretical knowledge.
Abstract: This chapter characterizes and compares knowledge, power, and learning in the critical and postmodern theoretical worldviews.
111 citations