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  • The Gender of Critical Theory

    On the Experiential Grounds of Critique

    by Lois McNay ...
    Frankfurt School Critical Theory describes itself as an unmasking critique of power. However, it has surprisingly little to say about major structural oppressions, including gender. A distinctive feature of critique is that, in diagnosing what is wrong with the world, it ought to be guided by the experiences of oppressed groups. Yet, in practice, it tends to pay little heed to these experiences. ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Foucault and Feminism

    Power, Gender and the Self

    by Lois McNay ...
    This book offers a systematic attempt to explore the point of convergance between feminist theory and the work of Michel Foucault. ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Foucault

    A Critical Introduction

    by Lois McNay ...
    Series series Key Contemporary Thinkers
    This work provides an introduction to the work of Michel Foucault. It offers an assessment of all of Foucault's work, including his final writings on governmentality and the self. McNay argues that the later work initiates an important shift in his intellectual concerns which alters any retrospective reading of his writings as a whole. Throughout, McNay is concerned to assess the normative and ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Gender and Agency

    Reconfiguring the Subject in Feminist and Social Theory

    by Lois McNay ...
    This book reassesses theories of agency and gender identity against the backdrop of changing relations between men and women in contemporary societies. McNay argues that recent thought on the formation of the modern subject offers a one-sided or negative account of agency, which underplays the creative dimension present in the responses of individuals to changing social relations. An understanding ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • The Misguided Search for the Political

    by Lois McNay ...
    There has been a lively debate amongst political theorists about whether certain liberal concepts of democracy are so idealized that they lack relevance to ‘real’ politics. Echoing these debates, Lois McNay examines in this book some theories of radical democracy and argues that they too tend to rely on troubling abstractions - or what she terms ‘socially weightless’ thinking. They often propose ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Recognition and Ambivalence

    by Judith Butler, Axel Honneth, Lois McNay, Amy Allen, Jean-Philippe Deranty, Robin Celikates, David Owen ...
    Series Book 77 - New Directions in Critical Theory
    Recognition is one of the most debated concepts in contemporary social and political thought. Its proponents, such as Axel Honneth, hold that to be recognized by others is a basic human need that is central to forming an identity, and the denial of recognition deprives individuals and communities of something essential for their flourishing. Yet critics including Judith Butler have questioned ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Recognition and Ambivalence

    by Judith Butler, Axel Honneth, Lois McNay, Amy Allen, Jean-Philippe Deranty, Robin Celikates, David Owen ...
    Series Book 77 - New Directions in Critical Theory
    Recognition is one of the most debated concepts in contemporary social and political thought. Its proponents, such as Axel Honneth, hold that to be recognized by others is a basic human need that is central to forming an identity, and the denial of recognition deprives individuals and communities of something essential for their flourishing. Yet critics including Judith Butler have questioned ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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  • The End of Progress

    Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory

    by Amy Allen ...
    Series Book 36 - New Directions in Critical Theory
    While post- and decolonial theorists have thoroughly debunked the idea of historical progress as a Eurocentric, imperialist, and neocolonialist fallacy, many of the most prominent contemporary thinkers associated with the Frankfurt School—Jürgen Habermas, Axel Honneth, and Rainer Forst—have defended ideas of progress, development, and modernity and have even made such ideas central to their ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Constitution of Society

    Outline of the Theory of Structuration

    by Anthony Giddens ...
    Anthony Giddens has been in the forefront of developments in social theory for the past decade. In The Constitution of Society he outlines the distinctive position he has evolved during that period and offers a full statement of a major new perspective in social thought, a synthesis and elaboration of ideas touched on in previous works but described here for the first time in an integrated and ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • Social Theory and Modern Sociology

    by Anthony Giddens ...
    In this book Anthony Giddens addresses a range of issues concerning current developments in social theory, relating them to the prospects for sociology in the closing decades of the twentieth century.Composed of closely integrated papers, all written over the past few years, the book includes seven essays not previously published, plus two have not appeared in English before.In assessing the ... Read more

    $31.00 USD

  • Social Theory of International Politics

    by Alexander Wendt ...
    Series Book 67 - Cambridge Studies in International Relations
    Drawing upon philosophy and social theory, Social Theory of International Politics develops a theory of the international system as a social construction. Alexander Wendt clarifies the central claims of the constructivist approach, presenting a structural and idealist worldview which contrasts with the individualism and materialism which underpins much mainstream international relations theory. He ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • The Scandal of Reason

    A Critical Theory of Political Judgment

    by Albena Azmanova ...
    Series Book 47 - New Directions in Critical Theory
    Theories of justice are haunted by a paradox: the more ambitious the theory of justice, the less applicable and useful the model is to political practice; yet the more politically realistic the theory, the weaker its moral ambition, rendering it unsound and equally useless. Brokering a resolution to this "judgment paradox," Albena Azmanova advances a "critical consensus model" of judgment that ... Read more

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