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  • Social Suffering

    Sociology, Psychology, Politics

    Translated by Maude Dews ...
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    There are various forms of suffering that are best described as social suffering, such as stress, harassment, experience of poverty and domination. Such suffering is a matter of social concern, but it is rarely a matter of discussion in the social sciences, political theory or philosophy. This book aims to change this by making social suffering central to an interdisciplinary critical theory of ... Read more

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  • The Experience of Injustice

    A Theory of Recognition

    Translated by Richard A. Lynch ...
    Series Book 70 - New Directions in Critical Theory
    In The Experience of Injustice, the French philosopher Emmanuel Renault opens an important new chapter in critical theory. He brings together political theory, critical social science, and a keen sense of the power of popular movements to offer a forceful vision of social justice. Questioning normative political philosophy’s conception of justice, Renault gives an account of injustice as the ... Read more

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  • The Experience of Injustice

    A Theory of Recognition

    Translated by Richard A. Lynch ...
    Series Book 70 - New Directions in Critical Theory
    In The Experience of Injustice, the French philosopher Emmanuel Renault opens an important new chapter in critical theory. He brings together political theory, critical social science, and a keen sense of the power of popular movements to offer a forceful vision of social justice. Questioning normative political philosophy’s conception of justice, Renault gives an account of injustice as the ... Read more

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  • The Return of Work in Critical Theory

    Self, Society, Politics

    Series Book 56 - New Directions in Critical Theory
    From John Maynard Keynes’s prediction of a fifteen-hour workweek to present-day speculation about automation, we have not stopped forecasting the end of work. Critical theory and political philosophy have turned their attention away from the workplace to focus on other realms of domination and emancipation. But far from coming to an end, work continues to occupy a central place in our lives. This ... Read more

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  • The Return of Work in Critical Theory

    Self, Society, Politics

    Series Book 56 - New Directions in Critical Theory
    From John Maynard Keynes’s prediction of a fifteen-hour workweek to present-day speculation about automation, we have not stopped forecasting the end of work. Critical theory and political philosophy have turned their attention away from the workplace to focus on other realms of domination and emancipation. But far from coming to an end, work continues to occupy a central place in our lives. This ... Read more

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  • The Philosophy of Recognition

    Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

    The theory of recognition is now a well-established and mature research paradigm in philosophy, and it is both influential in and influenced by developments in other fields of the humanities and social sciences. From debates in moral philosophy about the fundamental roots of obligation, to debates in political philosophy about the character of multicultural societies, to debates in legal theory ... Read more

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    A watershed event in the field of sociology, this text introduced "a major breakthrough in the sociology of knowledge and sociological theory generally" (George Simpson, American Sociological Review ).In this seminal book, Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann examine how knowledge forms and how it is preserved and altered within a society. Unlike earlier theorists and philosophers, Berger and ... Read more

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  • One-Dimensional Man

    Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

    Originally published in 1964, One-Dimensional Man quickly became one of the most important texts in the ensuing decade of radical political change. This second edition, newly introduced by Marcuse scholar Douglas Kellner, presents Marcuse's best-selling work to another generation of readers in the context of contemporary events. ... Read more

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    This is a book about what many teachers know but are increasingly being prevented from talking about: that real education always involves a risk. The risk is there because, as W. B. Yeats has put it, education is not about filling a bucket but about lighting a fire. It is there because students are not to be seen as objects to be moulded and disciplined, but as subjects of action and ... Read more

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  • One-Dimensional Man

    Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

    Series series Routledge Classics
    One of the most important texts of modern times, Herbert Marcuse's analysis and image of a one-dimensional man in a one-dimensional society has shaped many young radicals' way of seeing and experiencing life. Published in 1964, it fast became an ideological bible for the emergent New Left. As Douglas Kellner notes in his introduction, Marcuse's greatest work was a 'damning indictment of ... Read more

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  • Recognition and the Human Life-Form

    Beyond Identity and Difference

    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
    What is recognition and why is it so important? This book develops a synoptic conception of the significance of recognition in its many forms for human persons by means of a rational reconstruction and internal critique of classical and contemporary accounts.The book begins with a clarification of several fundamental questions concerning recognition. It then reconstructs the core ideas of Fichte, ... Read more

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  • The Struggle for Recognition

    The Moral Grammar of Social Conflicts

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    In this book Axel Honneth re-examines arguments put forward by Hegel and claims that the 'struggle for recognition' should be at the centre of social conflicts. ... Read more

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