Postwar American critical thought

Author(s)

• Beilharz, Peter

Bibliographic Information

Postwar American critical thought

edited by Peter Beilharz

（SAGE hallmarks in postwar critical thought）

SAGE, 2006

• : set
• v. 1
• v. 2
• v. 3
• v. 4

Note

"Thesis Eleven Centre for Critical Theory, La Trobe University"

Includes bibliographical references

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The United States has some claim to have risen to a position of intellectual dominance in the social sciences in the post-war years. American social scientists are key players in international conferences and their premier publications have some claim to set international trends. Yet the relationship between American thought and global traditions has been peculiarly under-theorized. This unparalleled four-volume collection is divided into eight parts that focus on American post-war critical theory with special reference to social theory, sociology and politics. It provides a comprehensive survey of the outstanding contributions in the field. Peter Beilharz, through a considered selection of articles, argues that American critical theory can be read not only as European, but also as profoundly American and North American. That is, it is hybrid, at the same time global and local in significance and inflection. In this way, the American experience can be read as a case study for doing critical theory today. This comprehensive collection amounts to a definitive guide to the currents and cross currents of American critical theory in the Postwar years. Peter Beilharz is Professor of Sociology at La Trobe University, Director of the Thesis Eleven Centre for Critical Theory and Associate Fellow, Yale University in 2004 -.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: SOURCES - THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL Introduction - Peter Beilharz Urban Flights - Martin Jay The Institute of Social Research between Frankfurt and New York Adorno in America - Martin Jay The Frankfurt School in Exile - Martin Jay Critical Theory and Political Economy - Moishe Postone and Barbara Brick Walter Benjamin Today - Richard Wolin Introduction to Habermas on Society and Politics - Steven Seidman Habermas and Critical Theory - Jeffrey Alexander Beyond the Marxian Dilemma? Complexity and Democracy, or The Seducements of Systems Theory - Thomas McCarthy PART TWO: SOURCES - FROM THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL TO FOUCAULT From the Problem of Judgement to the Public Sphere - Seyla Benhabib Rethinking Hannah Arendt's Political Theory Ontology and the Political Project - Dick Howard Cornelius Castoriadis Institutionalization as a Creative Process - Hans Joas The Sociological Importance of Cornelius Castoriadis's Political Philosophy Habitus, Field and Capital - Craig Calhoun The Question of Historical Specificity The Reality of Reduction - The Failed Synthesis of Pierre Bourdieu - Jeffrey Alexander Why We Might All Be Able to Live Together - Jeffrey Alexander An Immanent Critique of Alain Touraine's Pourrons-Nous Vivre Ensemble? Women in Dark Times - Martin Jay Agnes Arendt and Hannah Heller Foucault, Post-Structuralism and the Mode of Information - Mark Poster Conflicting Conceptions of Critique - David Couzens Hoy Foucault versus Habermas PART THREE: AMERICAN INFLEXIONS AND RESPONSES Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism - Daniel Bell The Actor Deprived of His Art - Richard Sennett The Narcissistic Personality of Our Time - Christopher Lasch Nostalgia - Christopher Lasch The Abdication of Memory Afterword - Richard Rorty Pragmatism, Pluralism and Postmodernism An Underestimated Alternative - Hans Joas America and the Limits of 'Critical Theory' Between Science and Politics - Steven Seidman For Gouldner - Martin Jay Reflections on an Outlaw Marxist City Life and Difference - Iris Murdoch Young Culture, Political Economy and Difference - Nancy Fraser On Iris Young's Justice and the Politics of Difference Calhoun's Critical Theory - Peter Beilharz Bourdieu in America - Lo[um]ic Wacquant Notes on the Transatlantic Importation of Social Theory Prophetic Pragmatism - Cornel West Cultural Criticism and Political Engagement The McDonaldization of Sociological Research - George Ritzer PART FOUR: SOCIOLOGY - CRITIQUE AND INNOVATION Modern, Anti, Post and Neo - Jeffrey Alexander How Intellectuals Have Coded, Narrated and Explained the 'New World of Our Time' Rethinking Critical Theory - Craig Calhoun Civic Bodies Multi-Cultural New York - Richard Sennett The Search for Tradition - Andreas Huyssen Avant Garde and Postmodernism in the 1970s The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism - Fredric Jameson The End of the Utopias of Labor - Anson Rabinbach Metaphors of the Machine in the Post-Fordist Era Critical Theory, the Informational Revolution and an Ecological Path to Modernity - Timothy W Luke and Stephen K White Where Are We at Home? - Agnes Heller On Irony - Gil Eyal, Iv[ac]an Sz[ac]el[ac]enyi and Eleanor Townsley An Invitation to Neo-Classical Sociology PART FIVE: POLITICS Introduction - Craig Calhoun Habermas and the Public Sphere Why More Political Theory? - Jean Cohen Civil Society and Social Theory - Jean Cohen and Andrew Arato Social Justice in the Age of Identity Politics - Nancy Fraser Redistribution, Recognition and Participation Recognition and Social Justice - Axel Honneth Honneth's New Critical Theory of Recognition - Jeffrey Alexander and Mari Pia Lara The Politics of Recognition - Charles Taylor PART SIX: ENGAGING AMERICA The Resistance That Modernity Constantly Provokes - Peter Wagner Europe, America and Social Theory The Evergreen Tocqueville (On the Occasion of the Hungarian Publication of Democracy in America) - Ferenc Feher Why Return to the American Revolution? - Dick Howard False Premises - Jean Cohen Jean Baudrillard - Robert Hughes America The Signs in the Street - Marshall Berman It All Comes Together in Los Angeles - Edward W Soja PART SEVEN: ENDGAMES/EXITS The Significance of the Frankfurt School Today - Albrecht Wellmer Five Theses (1986) Exit - N[ac]estor Garc[ac]ia Canclini

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• NCID: BA74646712
• ISBN:
  • 076194415X
• LCCN: 2005935932
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: 4 v.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • DC22 : 301'.01
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Social sciences -- Philosophy
  • LCSH : Critical theory
  • LCSH : Social sciences -- United States
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA70158025