Critique on the Couch

Amy Allen

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Critical Theory | nr. 73
• Does critical theory still need psychoanalysis? In Critique on the Couch , Amy Allen offers a cogent and convincing defense of its ongoing relevance. ... Lees meer

Social Acceleration

Hartmut Rosa

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Critical Theory | nr. 32
• Hartmut Rosa advances an account of the temporal structure of society from the perspective of critical theory. He identifies three categories of chang... Lees meer

Selected Writings on Media, Propaganda, and Political Communication

Siegfried Kracauer

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Critical Theory | nr. 80
• Siegfried Kracauer stands out as one of the most significant theorists and critics of the twentieth century, acclaimed for his analyses of film and po... Lees meer

Democracy and the Political Unconscious

Noëlle McAfee

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Critical Theory | nr. 10
• Political philosopher Noëlle McAfee proposes a powerful new political theory for our post-9/11 world, in which an old pathology-the repetition compuls... Lees meer

Praxis and Revolution

Eva Von Redecker

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Critical Theory | nr. 71
• The concept of revolution marks the ultimate horizon of modern politics. It is instantiated by sites of both hope and horror. Within progressive thoug... Lees meer

Foucault/Derrida Fifty Years Later

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Critical Theory | nr. 12
• Early in their careers, Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida argued over madness, reason, and history in an exchange that profoundly influenced contine... Lees meer

Starve and Immolate

Banu Bargu

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Critical Theory | nr. 33
• Starve and Immolate tells the story of leftist political prisoners in Turkey who waged a deadly struggle against the introduction of high security pri... Lees meer

Crisis Under Critique

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Critical Theory | nr. 78
• The word "crisis" denotes a break, a discontinuity, a rupture--a moment after which the normal order can continue no longer. Yet our political vocabul... Lees meer

The Highway of Despair

Robyn Marasco

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Critical Theory | nr. 41
• Hegel's "highway of despair," introduced in his Phenomenology of Spirit , is the tortured path traveled by "natural consciousness" on its way to freed... Lees meer

Alienation

Rahel Jaeggi

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Critical Theory | nr. 4
• The Hegelian-Marxist idea of alienation fell out of favor after the postmetaphysical rejection of humanism and essentialist views of human nature. In ... Lees meer

Political Responsibility

Antonio Vázquez-Arroyo

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Critical Theory | nr. 25
• Scholars in the humanities and social sciences have turned to ethics to theorize politics in what seems to be an increasingly depoliticized age. Yet t... Lees meer

The Practice of Political Theory

Clayton Chin

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Critical Theory | nr. 60
• Recent political thought has grappled with a crisis in philosophical foundations: how do we justify the explicit and implicit normative claims and ass... Lees meer

The Practice of Political Theory

Clayton Chin

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Critical Theory | nr. 60
• Recent political thought has grappled with a crisis in philosophical foundations: how do we justify the explicit and implicit normative claims and ass... Lees meer

Avicenna and the Aristotelian Left

Ernst Bloch

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Critical Theory | nr. 63
• Ernst Bloch was one of the most significant twentieth-century German thinkers, yet he remains overshadowed by his Frankfurt School contemporaries. Kno... Lees meer

A Time for Critique

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Critical Theory | nr. 58
• In a world of political upheaval, rising inequality, catastrophic climate change, and widespread doubt of even the most authoritative sources of infor... Lees meer

The Racial Discourses of Life Philosophy

Donna Jones

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Critical Theory | nr. 45
• In the early twentieth century, the life philosophy of Henri Bergson summoned the élan vital , or vital force, as the source of creative evolution. Be... Lees meer

Foucault/Derrida Fifty Years Later

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Critical Theory | nr. 12
• Early in their careers, Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida argued over madness, reason, and history in an exchange that profoundly influenced contine... Lees meer

Radical Cosmopolitics

James Ingram

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Critical Theory | nr. 28
• While supporting the cosmopolitan pursuit of a world that respects all rights and interests, James D. Ingram believes political theorists have, in the... Lees meer

The Power of Tolerance

Wendy Brown, Rainer Forst

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Critical Theory | nr. 44
• We invoke the ideal of tolerance in response to conflict, but what does it mean to answer conflict with a call for tolerance? Is tolerance a way of re... Lees meer

Mute Speech

Jacques Rancière

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Critical Theory | nr. 19
• Jacques Rancière has continually unsettled political discourse, particularly through his questioning of aesthetic "distributions of the sensible," whi... Lees meer

Fear of Breakdown

Noëlle McAfee

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Critical Theory | nr. 65
• What is behind the upsurge of virulent nationalism and intransigent politics across the globe today? In Fear of Breakdown , Noëlle McAfee uses psychoa... Lees meer

Starve and Immolate

Banu Bargu

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Critical Theory | nr. 33
• Starve and Immolate tells the story of leftist political prisoners in Turkey who waged a deadly struggle against the introduction of high security pri... Lees meer

Capitalism on Edge

Albena Azmanova

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Critical Theory | nr. 69
• The wake of the financial crisis has inspired hopes for dramatic change and stirred visions of capitalism's terminal collapse. Yet capitalism is not o... Lees meer

Birth of a New Earth

Adrian Parr

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Critical Theory
• In response to unprecedented environmental degradation, activists and popular movements have risen up to fight the crisis of climate change and the on... Lees meer