Craig Browne

Social Theory and the Political Imaginary (eBook, PDF)

Practice, Critique, and History

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Through engagement with the core problems of social theory as well as recent socio-political thought, this book explores landmark instances of 21st century social contestation, in order to demonstrate the importance of critical social theory to explaining and understanding contemporary social conflict and social transformation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781003823155
• Artikelnr.: 69353399

Autorenporträt

Craig Browne is an associate professor at The University of Sydney. He works in the area of critical social theory. His research into intersubjectivity, creative democracy, social change, contestation, global modernity and social and political imaginaries systematically revises the philosophy of praxis. He is the author of Critical Social Theory, Sage; and Habermas and Giddens on Praxis and Modernity: A Constructive Comparison, Anthem; and co-author of Taylor and Politics: A Critical Introduction, Edinburgh University Press. He co-edited Violence in France and Australia: Disorder in the Postcolonial Welfare State, SUP, and a special issue of Social Epistemology on conceptualizing the political imaginary.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Chapter 1. Social Theory Chapter 2. The Modern Political
Imaginary and the Pronlem of Hierachy Chapter 3. From the Philosophy of
Praxis to the Sociology of Practice Chapter 4. The Institution of Critique
and the Critique of Institutions Chapter 5. The Political Forms of
Modernity: The Gauchet-Badiou Debate over Democracy and Communism Chapter
6. Hong Kong as a Dual Periphery Chapter 7. Austerity and its Antitheses:
Practical Negations of Capitalist Legitimacy Chapter 8. Enacting
Half-Positions: Creative Disrespect in the 2005 French Riots