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Critical Theory

Critical Theory: The Last Stand for Emancipation gathers leading voices in contemporary critical thought to reassert the enduring relevance of a tradition forged in resistance. From the early insights of …

The Archives of Critical Theory

On the occasion of the 100^th^ anniversary of the foundation of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main, in 1923, this book aims at shedding light on the archives of some of the key thinker…

Gintautas Ma¿eikis

Critical Theory and Symbolic Thinking

This book interprets axial cultural symbols, specific cultural symbolic organizations, and symbolic constellations in the context of Critical Theory and its negative dialectic. It engages the origins, str…

Hilde Heynen,

Architecture and Feminist Critical Theory

Three decades of intellectual work on architectural theory and feminist discourse. Hilde Heynen is a Belgian architectural theorist whose work bridges neo-Marxist critical theory and current feminist disc…

Kire Sharlamanov

Habermas between Critical Theory and Liberalism

This book identifies the turning points in Habermas's work and his transition from one stage to another in the development of his theoretical oeuvre. Habermas began his academic career as part of the Fran…

Nathanaël Wallenhorst

A Critical Theory for the Anthropocene

This volume, which is rooted in biogeophysical studies, addresses conceptions of political action in the Anthropocene and the tension between a desire to accomplish the Promethean project of modernity and…

Nina Rismal

The Ends of Utopian Thinking in Critical Theory

The Ends of Utopian Thinking in Critical Theory offers a critical account of how utopian thinking became defeated as a tool of philosophy whose explicit objective has been to not only analyse but emancipa…

Lukas Meisner

Critical Marxist Theory

This book argues why Critical Theory -- as first developed in the Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung -- must be updated to help us tackling today's capitalistpolycrisis, from economic via political to ecolog…

Jr,

Shakespeare and Critical Race Theory

This volume argues that, given a Western propensity to identify Shakespeare's work with "the human", his drama plays a crucial and constitutive part in the ways race is theorized today. Offering…

Aja Y Martinez, Robert O Smith

The Origins of Critical Race Theory

"The Origins of Critical Race Theory humanizes the story of the relationships and experiences that combined to produce one of the most insightful and controversial academic movements in U.S. history&…

Kirby L. Wedekind

Constructing Power: A Critical and Constructivist Theory Using the American Case

This book asserts that there exists a causal relationship between identity, interest, and the exercise of power. The work defines power as the ability to satisfy oneself, which makes power contingent upon…

Nuclear Power Trio

Wet Ass Plutonium

Jan Overwijk

Cybernetic Capitalism

Cybernetic Capitalismdevelops a critical systems theory in order to conceptualize the cybernetic rationalization of contemporary capitalism. Today, the book argues, capital no longer aims at total communi…

Jan Overwijk

Cybernetic Capitalism

"Cybernetic Capitalism works to develop a critical systems theory on the basis of an encounter between the Frankfurt School notion of instrumental reason and the fundamental innovation of Luhmannian …

Stathis Kouvelakis

The Defeat of Critique

A critical perspective on Critical Theory, pointing the decline of its initial radical potential and the necessity of reviving it.

Gillian Rose,

Marxist Modernism

Lectures on art, Marxism, and critical theory by the legendary philosopher, collected for the first time

Peter Fleming

Capitalism and Nothingness

Drawing on Marcuse, Adorno, Arendt and a variety of other critical social philosophers, this book introduces us to a familiar character amid the wreckage of the post-pandemic economy: no-dimensional man. …

Seyla Benhabib

At the Margins of the Modern State

The international order of the post-WW II period is in disarray. The sounds of war can be heard all around us, from Ukraine to Gaza, from Darfur to the Congo, and there is growing skepticism towards human…

Benjamin B. Strosberg

Anti-Semitism at the Limit

In this book, Benjamin Strosberg explores difficulties and anxieties inherent in studying, defining, and defending against anti-Semitism by tracing a concurrent difficulty in thinking about Jewishness, wh…