How does critical realism relate to critical theory?
Critical realism: What is it and does it relate to the broader discipline of critical theory?...
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Tag: Critical theory
There is no other: On Hegel and intersubjectivity
The cult of the individual permeates so much modern thinking about society, equality and democracy...
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Theory, Method and Axel Honneth
Recognition theory as social research: investigating the dynamics of social conflict is an edited...
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Fromm, Marcuse and the rise of the Marxist public intellectual
Lawrence Friedman’s 2013 biography of Erich Fromm ‘The lives of Erich Fromm: Love’s prophet’ is a...
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The public sphere: Paradise lost, in more ways than one
Article: Laura Knoppers (2014) Gender and the Public Sphere in Habermas and Milton: New Critical...
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‘The more justice, the less freedom’: Max Horkheimer on Critical Theory
Wise words from Max Horkheimer, the original Director of the Institute for Social Reasearch, or...
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The dialectic of whisky drinking: Critical theory and the search for Scottish authenticity
Article: Karl Spracklen (2011) Dreaming of drams: authenticity in Scottish whisky tourism as an...
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Kramer v. Honneth: Juridification and the invisible hand of the law
In his newest book, Freedom’s right: the social foundations of democratic life, Axel Honneth...
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Achtung, maybe
Axel’s Honneth’s recent compendium of essays The I in We: studies in the theory of recognition is...
Read MoreSocial theory and the problem of power, pt. 4: the 3rd dimension
It was Steven Lukes’ book Power: a radical view, which added a third dimension onto those provided by Dahl and Bachrach and Baratz. In his book, Lukes sought to address the over-emphasis on behaviour evident in the...
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What’s Marx got to do with it?
Well in terms of modern social theory, quite a lot it seems. I made this point in my recent edited...
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So What Led Me to Critical Theory?
I was asked this question recently, and it’s a good one. Rarely if ever do I ask this question of...
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