Amirhosein Khandizaji & Wolfgang Sohst (Eds): Critical Theory: The Last Stand for Emancipation
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Critical Theory: The Last Stand for Emancipation gathers leading voices in contemporary critical thought to reassert the enduring relevance of a tradition forged in resistance. From the early insights of the Frankfurt School to its intersections with decolonial, queer, ecological, and postcolonial critiques, this volume maps the evolving terrain of a radical project devoted to unveiling domination and envisioning emancipation.
At a time when neoliberal orthodoxy undermines critical scholarship, and authoritarian populism distorts public discourse, this book refuses resignation. It offers instead a lucid and urgent intervention—one that confronts the alienations of digital life, the legacies of colonial violence, and the manufactured chaos of late capitalism. With essays ranging from genealogy to praxis, from epistemology to affect, this collection insists that critical theory is not an academic relic, but a living practice of resistance.
Whether reckoning with the failures of progress or reclaiming hope as a political act, Critical Theory: The Last Stand for Emancipation is a call to think deeply, act ethically, and remember that critique remains a vital tool in the struggle for a more just world.
- Contents:
- Amirhosein Khandizaji & Wolfgang Sohst: Introduction: Critical Theory in a Time of Reckoning
- William Outhwaite: Generations of Critical Theory
- Thomas Wheatland: Critical Theory: The Los Angeles Years
- Bruce Baum: Queering Critical Theory: Revisiting the Early Frankfurt School on Homosexuality and Critique
- Geoff Boucher and Madeleine Schneider: The Contemporary Authoritarian Personality: Critical Theory and the Resurgence of Rightwing Authoritarianism
- Craig Browne: Social Practices and the Constitution of Knowledge: Critical Social Theory as a Philosophy of Praxis
- Eduardo Mendieta: Anthropodicies of Coloniality: Urbanocene, Plantationcene and Critical Theory
- Michael J. Thompson: Reification and the Web of Norms: Toward a Critical Theory of Consciousness
- Stephen Eric Bronner: Critical Theory American Style: C. Wright Mills and the Tradition
- David Ingram: Critical Theory and the Struggle for Recognition
- Sarah Burton, William Outhwaite, and Simon Susen: The Urgency of Critical Theory Today: Towards Optimism and Renewal in a Neoliberal World
ISBN: 978-3-911549-05-9, 381 pages, Paperback. Price: 32,00 €