Critical Social Science
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Published: 2011
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 9788189524654
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The Cambridge Companion to Critical Theory
Author: Fred Leland Rush
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-08-26
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9780521016896
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCritical Theory constitutes one of the major intellectual traditions of the twentieth century, and is centrally important for philosophy, political theory, aesthetics and theory of art, the study of modern European literatures and music, the history of ideas, sociology, psychology, and cultural studies. In this volume an international team of distinguished contributors examines the major figures in Critical Theory, including Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse, Benjamin, and Habermas, as well as lesser known but important thinkers such as Pollock and Neumann. The volume surveys the shared philosophical concerns that have given impetus to Critical Theory throughout its history, while at the same time showing the diversity among its proponents that contributes so much to its richness as a philosophical school. The result is an illuminating overview of the entire history of Critical Theory in the twentieth century, an examination of its central conceptual concerns, and an in-depth discussion of its future prospects.
Concepts
Author: Andy Blunden
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2012-07-20
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9004228489
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAndy Blunden presents a critical review of theories of Concepts in cognitive psychology, analytical philosophy, linguistics, conceptual change theory and other disciplines. The problems in these disciplines has led many to abandon the idea of Concepts altogether, particularly those taking an interactionist approach. Blunden responds with an historical review focussing on the idealist philosophy of Hegel, its reception and transformation in the development of positive science and finally the cultural psychology of Lev Vygotsky. He then proposes an approach to Concepts which draws on Activity Theory. Concepts are equally subjective and objective, units of consciousness and of the cultural formation of which one is a part. This continues the author’s earlier work in An Interdisciplinary Theory of Activity (Brill 2010).
The Dictionary Of Critical Social Sciences
Author: T. R. Young
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-07-11
Total Pages: 1479
ISBN-13: 1000315908
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a teaching dictionary with the goal of de-mystifying current social science theory in a comprehensive, accessible format. It focuses on important terminology in progressive, radical, critical Marxist, feminist, left-liberal, postmodern, and semiotic contexts.
Critical Theory
Author: Max Horkheimer
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 1972-01-01
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 0826400833
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese 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.
Critical Social Research
Author: Lee Harvey
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis guide to critical social research is not concerned with simply describing techniques of data collection, but rather through the exploration of a number of case studies of critical social research it sets out and then explores the nature of critical social research methodology.
Critique as Social Practice
Author: Robin Celikates
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2018-05-08
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 1786604647
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCan critical theory diagnose ideological delusion and false consciousness from above, or does it have to follow the practices of critique ordinary agents engage in? This book argues that we have to move beyond this dichotomy, which has led to a theoretical impasse. Whilst ordinary agents engage in complex forms of everyday critique, it must remain the task of critical theory to provide analysis and critique of social conditions that obstruct the development of reflexive capacities and of their realization in corresponding practices of critique. Only an approach that is at the same time non-paternalistic, pragmatist, and dialogical as well as critical will be able to realize the emancipatory potential of the Frankfurt School tradition of critical theory in radically changing social circumstances. The translation of this work was funded by Geisteswissenschaften International – Translation Funding for Humanities and Social Sciences from Germany, a joint initiative of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, the German Federal Foreign Office, the collecting society VG WORT and the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels (German Publisher & Booksellers Association)
Realism and Social Science
Author: R. Andrew Sayer
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2000-02-11
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780761961246
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRealism and Social Science offers an authoritative guide to critical realism and an assessment of its virtues in comparison with other leading traditions in social science. It is illustrated throughout with relevant and accessible examples.
An Introduction to Critical Social Psychology
Author: Alexa Hepburn
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2003-02-28
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780761962106
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat is critical social psychology? In what ways can social psychology be progressive or radical? How can it be involved in political critique and reconstruction? Is social psychology itself the problem? Critical social psychology offers a confusing array of diverse answers to these questions. This book cuts through the confusion by revealing the very different assumptions at work in this fast growing field. A critical approach depends on a range of often-implicit theories of society, knowledge, as well as the subject. This book will show the crucial role of these theories for directing critique at different parts of society, suggesting alternative ways of doing research, and effecting social change. It includes chapters fr
Continental Philosophy of Social Science
Author: Yvonne Sherratt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-10-17
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 1139448552
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContinental Philosophy of Social Science demonstrates the unique and autonomous nature of the continental approach to social science and contrasts it with the Anglo-American tradition. Yvonne Sherratt argues for the importance of an historical understanding of the Continental tradition in order to appreciate its individual, humanist character. Examining the key traditions of hermeneutic, genealogy, and critical theory, and the texts of major thinkers such as Gadamer, Ricoeur, Derrida, Nietzsche, Foucault, the Early Frankfurt School and Habermas, she also contextualizes contemporary developments within strands of thought stemming back to Ancient Greece and Rome. Sherratt shows how these modes of thinking developed through medieval Christian thought into the Enlightenment and Romantic eras, before becoming mainstays of twentieth-century disciplines. Continental Philosophy of Social Science will serve as the essential textbook for courses in philosophy or social sciences.
