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

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

Another Universalism

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Critical Theory | nr. 84
• Seyla Benhabib's ongoing work has expanded the range and scope of critical theory beyond its origins to address questions of gender, migration, and di... 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

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

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

Regenerative Politics

Emma Planinc

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Critical Theory | nr. 98
• Critics of liberal democracy from both the left and right view rights not as protectors of freedom but as impediments to self-determination and call f... 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Return of Work in Critical Theory

Christophe Dejours, Jean-Philippe Deranty, Emmanuel Renault, Nicholas H Smith

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Critical Theory | nr. 55
• From John Maynard Keynes's prediction of a fifteen-hour workweek to present-day speculation about automation, we have not stopped forecasting the end ... 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

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

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

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

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