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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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13 Sep 1999
TL;DR: Foucault contra Habermas as discussed by the authors is an incisive examination of, and a comprehensive introduction to, the debate over the meaning of enlightenment and modernity, which reprises the key issues in the argument between critical theory and genealogy and is organised around three complementary themes: defining the context of the debate; examining the theoretical and conceptual tools used; and discussing the implications for politics and criticism.
Abstract: Foucault contra Habermas is an incisive examination of, and a comprehensive introduction to, the debate between Foucault and Habermas over the meaning of enlightenment and modernity. It reprises the key issues in the argument between critical theory and genealogy and is organised around three complementary themes: defining the context of the debate; examining the theoretical and conceptual tools used; and discussing the implications for politics and criticism. In a detailed reply to Habermas' Philosophical Discourse of Modernity, this volume explains the difference between Habermas' philosophical practice and Foucault's between the analytics of truth and the politics of truth. Many of the most difficult arguments in the exchange are subject to a detailed critical analysis. This examination also includes discussion of the ethics of dialogue; the practice of criticism; the politics of recognition, and the function of civil society and democracy.
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TL;DR: In this article, the promises of critical hermeneutics as an innovative method and philosophy within the human sciences are explored, and it is argued that its success depends on its ability to articulate a th...
Abstract: This article explores the promises of critical hermeneutics as an innovative method and philosophy within the human sciences. It is argued that its success depends on its ability to articulate a th...
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TL;DR: The authors compare the writings of the principal exponents of critical theory -Max Horkeimer, Herbert Marcuse and Jurgen Habermas -with those of Michel Foucault.
Abstract: Peter Miller compares the writings of the principal exponents of critical theory - Max Horkeimer, Herbert Marcuse and Jurgen Habermas - with those of Michel Foucault.
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01 Jan 1973
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13 Nov 1997
TL;DR: The Future of Critical Discourse as mentioned in this paper is the future of critical discourses in liberal humanism and contemporary cultural studies, focusing on the critical theory of the Frankfurt School and its relation to poststructuralist and postmodernist discourses.
Abstract: * Introduction: Theorizing Culture, Practicing Criticism * The Critical Discourse of Liberal Humanism * Hermeneutics: Interpretation and Critique * The Materialist Critique of Culture * Psychoanalysis and the Critique of Culture * The Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School * Formalist, Structuralist, and Semiotic Analyses of Culture * Poststructuralist and Postmodernist Discourses * Contemporary Cultural Studies * Conclusion: The Future of Critical Discourse
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