Critical theory [electronic resource] : diverse objects, diverse subjects / edited by Jennifer M. Lehmann.
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TextSeries: Current perspectives in social theory ; v. 22.Publication details: New York : JAI, 2003Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 392 p.)ISBN: 9781849501774 (electronic bk.) :; 1849501777 (electronic bk.) :Subject(s): Social sciences -- Philosophy | Knowledge, Theory of | Social theory | Social Science -- Sociology -- GeneralAdditional physical formats: Print version:: Critical theory.DDC classification: 301.01 LOC classification: H61 | .C76 2003Online resources: Click here to access online | Item type | Current library | Call number | URL | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Part I: Bringing Marxism back ... with Foucault -- Foucoult's encounter with Marxism / Paul Paolucci -- Part II: Critical theories of knowledge: epistemology and culture -- Afrocentricity and the Eurocentric hegemony of knowledge: contradictions of place / Molefi Kete Asante -- Epistemology, culture and rhetoric: some social implications of human cognition / Thomas J. Burns and Terri LeMoyne -- Films and utopia: the culture industry revisited / James J. Dowd -- Part III: Social structures, theories and movements -- Cybercritique: a social theory of online agency and virtual structures / Timothy W. Luke -- Rationalism and traditionalism in classical sociology and contemporary feminist theory / Mary Godwyn -- The duality of systems: networks as media and outcomes of movement mobilization / Jeff Livesay -- Part IV: Bridging the African diaspora in the new millennium (selected papers from the eponymous conference at the University of Nebraska, Februrary 2001) -- Re-visioning race: dismantling whiteness / Gerise Herndon -- The phychological and spiritual implications of western Christian missionaries' influence on the African diaspora: special reference to West African countries / Joshua Olayiwola Oyekan -- Part V: Critical theory (selected papers from the Conference of the Socialogical Theory Section, International Socialogical Association, University of Cambridge, September 2000) -- How is society possible? Towards a metacritique of reification / Frédéric Vandenberghe -- The form of difference: reimagining critical theory / Nancy Weiss Hanrahan -- Prolegomena to an intercultural critical theory / Fuyuki Kurasawa -- Pragmatism versus socialogical hermeneutics / Patrick Baert -- Subjectivity, culture, autonomy: Castadoriadis and social theory / Anthony Elliott.
The contributions in this 22nd volume of "Current Perspectives in Social Theory" explore the arguments for and against a view of the world in which multiple, distinct and conflicting societies differ both over time and contemporaneously.
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