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Critical Theory Today

On the Limits and Relevance of an Intellectual Tradition

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  1. Denis C. Bosseau

    1. Social & Political Thought, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK

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  2. Tom Bunyard

    1. Humanities, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK

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  • Offers a timely consideration of the evolution and relevance of critical theory
  • Demonstrates new approaches to otherwise familiar names and ideas
  • Provides a platform for emerging voices within the critical theoretical tradition

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. On the Crisis of Critique: Reformulating the Project of Critical Theory

    • Michael J. Thompson
    Pages 1-18

  3. An Anticolonial Deficit in Frankfurt School Critical Theory: A Need for a Decolonial Turn

    • Muhammad Qasim
    Pages 19-36

  4. Critical Condition

    • David Gould
    Pages 37-57

  5. Critical Theory, Political Modernity and Sociological Modernity

    • Darrow Schecter
    Pages 59-83

  6. Erich Fromm and Contemporary Critical Theory

    • Neal Harris, Owen Brown
    Pages 85-100

  7. The Uses of Marx’s Value-Theoretical Concept of Reproduction for Social Reproduction Theory

    • Rebecca Carson
    Pages 101-123

  8. Abandonment or Liberation? Anorexia, Refusal of Treatment, and the Limits of Proceduralism

    • Jacopo Condò
    Pages 125-150

  9. Responding to Precarity: Ethics and Mediation in Butler and Adorno

    • Luke Edmeads
    Pages 151-168

  10. Re-thinking Social Transformation: Utopian Consciousness Within Critical Theory—Covid-19, “The New Normal” and “Dreams of a Better Life”

    • Lynn Alena Roth
    Pages 169-190

  11. Beyond Post-Truth: Critical Theory and the Possibility of Radical Enlightenment

    • Roderick Howlett
    Pages 191-213

  12. Totality, Malaise and Agitation: Towards a Critical Theory of Authoritarian Politics

    • Helge Petersen, Alex Struwe
    Pages 215-235

  13. Adorno’s Exaggerations and the Limits of Social Pathology Critique

    • Paul Ingram
    Pages 237-255

  14. Towards a Post-capitalist Horizon of Possibility. Mark Fisher, the Renewal of Critical Theory of Society for the Twenty-First Century

    • Paul Ewart
    Pages 257-279
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About this book

This book considers whether critical theory is up to the task of addressing our contemporary crises, including the question of ‘post-truth’ discourse, psycho-social pathologies, the rise of right-wing populism, the Covid-19 pandemic, the anticolonial deficit in critical theory, and the neo-liberal management of the academy. The contributors offer a series of timely and complex reflections on the nature of critical theory, its role in contemporary society, and its various developments since the early twentieth century. In doing so, they analyse a variety of contemporary issues that, through critical reflection, can help us to navigate these problems. This volume seeks to highlight problems and possibilities within this field of thought, and endeavours to contribute towards reconsidering its capabilities and relevance.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Social & Political Thought, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK

    Denis C. Bosseau

  • Humanities, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK

    Tom Bunyard

About the editors

Denis C. Bosseau is a Doctoral Candidate affiliated with the Research Centre for Social & Political Thought (SPT) at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. His current research (Spectres of Lenin) problematises the heritage and continued relevance of V.I. Lenin’s political realism (concrete analysis and the politico-strategic question of emancipation) seen through the prism of contemporary social movements and struggles. His most recent publications include: “The Revolt of the Maladjusted: Defacing the Currency of Social Pathology Diagnosis in Contemporary Critical Theory” in Pathology Diagnosis and Social Research - New Applications and Explorations (2021)

Tom Bunyard is Senior Lecturer in Humanities at the University of Brighton, UK, where he teaches philosophy, critical theory, cultural studies and aesthetics. He is also the author of Debord, Time and Spectacle: Hegelian Marxism and Situationist Theory (2018).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Critical Theory Today

  • Book Subtitle: On the Limits and Relevance of an Intellectual Tradition

  • Editors: Denis C. Bosseau, Tom Bunyard

  • Series Title: Political Philosophy and Public Purpose

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07638-1

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-07637-4Published: 17 November 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-07640-4Published: 17 November 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-07638-1Published: 16 November 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2524-714X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2524-7158

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 279

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Political Theory, Critical Theory, Political Philosophy

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