| Critical Theory in Critical Times: Transforming the Global Political and Economic Order Contributor(s): Deutscher, Penelope (Editor), LaFont, Cristina (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0231181507 ISBN-13: 9780231181501 Publisher: Columbia University Press OUR PRICE: $103.95 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Movements - Critical Theory - Philosophy | Political - Political Science | History & Theory - General |
| Dewey: 142 |
| LCCN: 2016044939 |
| Series: New Directions in Critical Theory |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.9" W x 9.1" (1.25 lbs) 320 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: We live in critical times. We face a global crisis in economics and finance, a global ecological crisis, and a constant barrage of international disputes. Perhaps most dishearteningly, there seems to be little faith in our ability to address such difficult problems. However, there is also a more positive sense in which these are critical times. The world's current state of flux gives us a unique window of opportunity for shaping a new international order that will allow us to cope with current and future global crises. In Critical Theory in Critical Times, eleven of the most distinguished critical theorists offer new perspectives on recent crises and transformations of the global political and economic order. Essays from J rgen Habermas, Seyla Benhabib, Cristina Lafont, Rainer Forst, Wendy Brown, Christoph Menke, Nancy Fraser, Rahel Jaeggi, Amy Allen, Penelope Deutscher, and Charles Mills address pressing issues including international human rights and democratic sovereignty, global neoliberalism, novel approaches to the critique of capitalism, critical theory's Eurocentric heritage, and new directions offered by critical race theory and postcolonial studies. Sharpening the conceptual tools of critical theory, the contributors to Critical Theory in Critical Times reveal new ways of expanding the diverse traditions of the Frankfurt School in response to some of the most urgent and important challenges of our times. |
Contributor Bio(s): Deutscher, Penelope: - Penelope Deutscher (PhD, Philosophy, NSW) is Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University. She is the author of a number of books, including Floucault's Futures (Columbia, 2017), The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir (Cambridge, 2008), and How to Read Derrida (Norton, 2006), and the coeditor (with of Olivia Custer and Samir Haddad) of Foucault/Derrida (Columbia, 2016) and (with Cristina Lafont) Critical Theory in Critical Times (Columbia, 2017), among other collections. She is the Associate Director of Northwestern's Critical Theory cluster and coinvestigator, with Judith Butler, of the Mellon-fuinded International Consortium for Critical Theory Programs. Her research interests include critical theory and gender and sexuality studies. |