Critical Theory To Structuralism

Author : David Ingram
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317546863

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Critical Theory to Structuralism by David Ingram Pdf

Philosophy in the middle of the 20th Century, between 1920 and 1968, responded to the cataclysmic events of the time. Thinkers on the Right turned to authoritarian forms of nationalism in search of stable forms of collective identity, will, and purpose. Thinkers on the Left promoted egalitarian forms of humanism under the banner of international communism. Others saw these opposed tendencies as converging in the extinction of the individual and sought to retrieve the ideals of the Enlightenment in ways that critically acknowledged the contradictions of a liberal democracy racked by class, cultural, and racial conflict. Key figures and movements discussed in this volume include Schmitt, Adorno and the Frankfurt School, Arendt, Benjamin, Bataille, French Marxism, Black Existentialism, Saussure and Structuralism, Levi Strauss, Lacan and Late Pragmatism. These individuals and schools of thought responded to this 'modernity crisis' in different ways, but largely focused on what they perceived to be liberal democracy's betrayal of its own rationalist ideals of freedom, equality, and fraternity.

Author : David Ingram
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317546870

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Critical Theory to Structuralism by David Ingram Pdf

Philosophy in the middle of the 20th Century, between 1920 and 1968, responded to the cataclysmic events of the time. Thinkers on the Right turned to authoritarian forms of nationalism in search of stable forms of collective identity, will, and purpose. Thinkers on the Left promoted egalitarian forms of humanism under the banner of international communism. Others saw these opposed tendencies as converging in the extinction of the individual and sought to retrieve the ideals of the Enlightenment in ways that critically acknowledged the contradictions of a liberal democracy racked by class, cultural, and racial conflict. Key figures and movements discussed in this volume include Schmitt, Adorno and the Frankfurt School, Arendt, Benjamin, Bataille, French Marxism, Black Existentialism, Saussure and Structuralism, Levi Strauss, Lacan and Late Pragmatism. These individuals and schools of thought responded to this 'modernity crisis' in different ways, but largely focused on what they perceived to be liberal democracy's betrayal of its own rationalist ideals of freedom, equality, and fraternity.

Author : Mark Poster
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501746185

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Critical Theory and Poststructuralism by Mark Poster Pdf

In Critical Theory and Poststructuralism Mark Poster enacts a dialogue between the French poststructuralists, especially Michel Foucault, and the tradition of critical social theory as developed by the Frankfurt School and by other Continental theorists such as Jean-Paul Sartre. These confrontations between poststructuralists who represent "postmodern" thought and theorists committed the "modern" project of the Enlightenment is, according to Poster, of urgent importance because of the failure of critical theory to sustain a convincing critique of today's radically changed social formation.

Author : Art Berman
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 0252060024

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From the New Criticism to Deconstruction by Art Berman Pdf

From the New Criticism to Deconstruction traces the transitions in American critical theory and practice from the 1950s to the 1980s. It focuses on the influence of French structuralism and post-structuralism on American deconstruction within a wide-ranging context that includes literary criticism, philosophy, psychology, technology, and politics.

Author : Lois Tyson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136615566

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Critical Theory Today by Lois Tyson Pdf

Critical Theory Today is the essential introduction to contemporary criticial theory. It provides clear, simple explanations and concrete examples of complex concepts, making a wide variety of commonly used critical theories accessible to novices without sacrificing any theoretical rigor or thoroughness. This new edition provides in-depth coverage of the most common approaches to literary analysis today: feminism, psychoanalysis, Marxism, reader-response theory, new criticism, structuralism and semiotics, deconstruction, new historicism, cultural criticism, lesbian/gay/queer theory, African American criticism, and postcolonial criticism. The chapters provide an extended explanation of each theory, using examples from everyday life, popular culture, and literary texts; a list of specific questions critics who use that theory ask about literary texts; an interpretation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby through the lens of each theory; a list of questions for further practice to guide readers in applying each theory to different literary works; and a bibliography of primary and secondary works for further reading.

Author : David Ingram
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1844656136

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Critical Theory to Structuralism by David Ingram Pdf

Key figures and movements discussed in this volume include Schmitt, Adorno and the Frankfurt School, Arendt, Benjamin, Bataille, French Marxism, Black Existentialism, Saussure and Structuralism, Levi Strauss, Lacan and Late Pragmatism.

Author : Peter Dews
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781789602814

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Logics of Disintegration by Peter Dews Pdf

Over the last two decades, contemporary French philosophy has exercised a powerful influence on intellectual life, across both Europe and America. Post-structuralist strategies and concepts have played an important role in many forms of social, cultural and aesthetic analysis, particularly on the Left. Despite the widespread reception, however, there has still been comparatively little analysis of the basic philosophical assumptions of post-structuralism, or of the compatibility of many of its central tenets with the progressive political orientations with which it is frequently associated. In this book, Peter Dews seeks to remedy this situation by setting post-structuralist thought in relation to another, more explicitly critical, tradition in the philosophical analysis of modernity - that of the Frankfurt School, from Adorno to Habermas. Logics of Disintegration will be of interest to readers across a wide range of disciplines, from literary criticism to social theory, which have felt the impact of post-structuralism - and to anyone who wishes to reach a balanced assessment of one of the most influential intellectual currents of our time.

Author : Michael A. Peters
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015040982715

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Critical Theory, Poststructuralism and the Social Context by Michael A. Peters Pdf

Author : Douglas Tallack
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317866787

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Critical Theory by Douglas Tallack Pdf

An anthology of readings and extracts providing a comprehensive introduction to the main schools and positions of critical theory. The book is divided into five sections; structuralism and poststructuralism, psychoanalytical theory, Marxism, feminism, and post-foundational ethics and politics. It includes a general introduction covering the field of critical theory and identifies founding theorists and movements with a bibliography and notes.

Author : Alan D. Schrift
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317546832

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Poststructuralism and Critical Theory's Second Generation by Alan D. Schrift Pdf

"Poststructuralism and Critical Theory's Second Generation" analyses the major themes and developments in a period that brought continental philosophy to the forefront of scholarship in a variety of humanities and social science disciplines and that set the agenda for philosophical thought on the continent and elsewhere from the 1960s to the present. Focusing on the years 1960-1984, the volume examines the major figures associated with poststructuralism and the second generation of critical theory, the two dominant movements that emerged in the 1960s: Althusser, Foucault, Deleuze, Derrida, Lyotard, Irigaray, and Habermas. Influential thinkers such as Serres, Bourdieu, and Rorty, who are not easily placed in "standard" histories of the period, are also covered. Beyond this, thematic essays engage with issues as diverse as the Nietzschean legacy, the linguistic turn in continental thinking, the phenomenological inheritance of Gadamer and Ricoeur, the influence of psychoanalysis, the emergence of feminist thought and a philosophy of sexual difference, the renewal of the critical theory tradition, and the importation of continental philosophy into literary theory.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 184465219X

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The History of Continental Philosophy by Anonim Pdf

Author : Helen Pluckrose,James A. Lindsay
Publisher : Pitchstone Publishing (US&CA)
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781634312035

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Cynical Theories by Helen Pluckrose,James A. Lindsay Pdf

Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly Bestseller! Have you heard that language is violence and that science is sexist? Have you read that certain people shouldn't practice yoga or cook Chinese food? Or been told that being obese is healthy, that there is no such thing as biological sex, or that only white people can be racist? Are you confused by these ideas, and do you wonder how they have managed so quickly to challenge the very logic of Western society? In this probing and intrepid volume, Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay document the evolution of the dogma that informs these ideas, from its coarse origins in French postmodernism to its refinement within activist academic fields. Today this dogma is recognizable as much by its effects, such as cancel culture and social-media dogpiles, as by its tenets, which are all too often embraced as axiomatic in mainstream media: knowledge is a social construct; science and reason are tools of oppression; all human interactions are sites of oppressive power play; and language is dangerous. As Pluckrose and Lindsay warn, the unchecked proliferation of these anti-Enlightenment beliefs present a threat not only to liberal democracy but also to modernity itself. While acknowledging the need to challenge the complacency of those who think a just society has been fully achieved, Pluckrose and Lindsay break down how this often-radical activist scholarship does far more harm than good, not least to those marginalized communities it claims to champion. They also detail its alarmingly inconsistent and illiberal ethics. Only through a proper understanding of the evolution of these ideas, they conclude, can those who value science, reason, and consistently liberal ethics successfully challenge this harmful and authoritarian orthodoxy—in the academy, in culture, and beyond.

Author : Richard Kearney
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1995-01-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0719042488

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Modern Movements in European Philosophy by Richard Kearney Pdf

In this now classic textbook, Richard Kearney surveys the work of nineteen of this century’s most influential European thinkers. The second edition has a new chapter devoted to Julia Kristeva, whose work in the fields of semiotics and psychoanalytic theory has made a significant contribution to recent continental thought.

Author : Nayar
Publisher : Pearson Education India
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 8131727351

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Contemporary Literary And Cultural Theory: From Structuralism To Ecocriticism by Nayar Pdf

Author : Max Horkheimer
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1972-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780826400833

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Critical Theory by Max Horkheimer Pdf

These essays, written in the 1930s and 1940s, represent a first selection in English from the major work of the founder of the famous Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt. Horkheimer's writings are essential to an understanding of the intellectual background of the New Left and the to much current social-philosophical thought, including the work of Herbert Marcuse. Apart from their historical significance and even from their scholarly eminence, these essays contain an immediate relevance only now becoming fully recognized.