Since the linguistic turn in Frankfurt School critical theory during the 1970s, philosophical concerns have become increasingly important to its overall agenda, at the expense of concrete social-scientific inquiries. At the same time, each of the individual social sciences especially economics and psychology, but also political science and sociology have been moving further and further away from the challenge key representatives of the so-called first generation of Frankfurt School critical theorists (Adorno, Horkheimer, and Marcuse) identified as central to the promise and responsibility of social science: to illuminate those dimensions of modern societies that prevent the reconciliation of facts and norms. As professional disciplines, each individual social science, and even philosophy, is prone to ignoring both the actuality and the relevance for research of alienation and reification as the mediating processes that constitute the reference frames for critical theory. Consequently, mainstream social-scientific research tends to progress in the hypothetical: we study the social world as if alienation, reification, and more recent incarnations of those mediating processes had lost their shaping forcewhile, in the context of globalization, their manifestations are ever more apparent, and tangible. The chapters included in this volume of "Current Perspectives in Social Theory" highlight the problematic nature of mainstream perspectives, and the growing need to reaffirm how the specific kind of critique the early Frankfurt School theorists advocated is not less, but far more important today. Contributions examine the links between political geographies and globalization; Marxism and public sociology; anti-Semitic workers and Jewish stereotypes; governmental rationality and state power; restricted eros and contemporary politics; Marcuse and the psycho-politics of transformation; contemporary theory and consumer society; and the theory of C. Wright Mills. This book includes nine chapters from some of the most respected personalities in the field and a broad and diverse look at social science and critical theory.

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No Social Science without Critical Theory (Current Perspectives in Social Theory, 25)

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Current perspectives in social theory, Bingley, 2008

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Emerald Publishing, Bingley, 2008

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cover.jpg......Page 1
CURRENT PERSPECTIVES IN SOCIAL THEORY......Page 2
sdarticle_001.pdf......Page 3
sdarticle_002.pdf......Page 4
EDITOR......Page 5
List of Contributors......Page 7
Introduction......Page 9
Dilemmas of social science......Page 12
The Purported Superiority of the Western Model......Page 13
From Cold War to Globalization: Opportunity Costs of Professionalization......Page 16
Considering context: confronting the specificity of modern societies......Page 19
Social science versus critical theory?......Page 24
Two Dimensions of Societal Reality......Page 25
The Immersion of Social Science in Society......Page 27
The Issue of ‘‘Globalization’’......Page 29
The Place of Theory in Social Science......Page 32
Critical theory versus mainstream social science?......Page 35
On the Immersion of Mainstream Approaches in Modern Society......Page 38
Toward a Critical Theory of Mainstream Approaches: The Tension Between ‘‘Static’’ and ‘‘Dynamic’’ in Social Science......Page 42
Critical theory infin mainstream approaches?50......Page 47
Critical Liberalism, Cultural Pessimism, and Public Sociology......Page 49
Social science in the age of globalization: reconciling the irreconcilable?......Page 51
Notes......Page 56
References......Page 63
Critical conundrums - logic and politics in Frankfurt critical theory prior to the linguistic turn......Page 68
I......Page 69
II......Page 77
Notes......Page 82
References......Page 85
The Frankfurt School and the Problem of Ideological Power......Page 87
A socio-psychological model of ideology critique. The ambivalent program of interdisciplinary materialism......Page 90
A model of isolated critique: The speculative concept of a critical theory of instrumental reason......Page 97
A politico-sociological model and the problem of free-standing critique: A reorientation of ideology critique......Page 101
References......Page 108
Introduction......Page 109
Where is universality? what is particularity?......Page 113
Universal space, nature, and the floating signifier of race......Page 119
Hegel’s universality as a problem of space......Page 123
Regional geography as an expression of universality......Page 126
Ratzel on borders and race......Page 128
Grossraum versus universalism......Page 134
Hegemony and contingent universality......Page 137
The constitutive outside and civil society......Page 142
Scales of translation......Page 145
Conclusion......Page 147
References......Page 150
From the culture industry to the society of the spectacle: Critical theory and the situationist international......Page 154
Introduction......Page 155
Theories of consumer capitalism in Western Marxism: Lukács, the Frankfurt School, and Lefebvre......Page 160
Toward the society of the spectacle: Central concerns of the situationist international......Page 166
Alienation, Commodification, and the Homogenization of Time and Space......Page 167
From Reified Production to Reified Consumption......Page 171
Toward a critical theory of entertainment and spectacle......Page 177
Conclusion......Page 181
Notes......Page 183
References......Page 186
Signifying the Jew: antisemitic workers and Jewish stereotypes during World War II......Page 192
From inevitability to inquiry......Page 193
Labor study data and methods......Page 196
Antisemitism as an instrument of domination......Page 198
Broad antisemitic themes in the different antisemitic groups (A-D)......Page 202
Dirty Jews......Page 205
Ill-Mannered Jews......Page 206
The antisemitic hatred of clannishness......Page 208
Jewish aggressiveness......Page 211
Jewish sexuality......Page 213
Antisemitism and ‘‘Jewish personal qualities’’......Page 214
An overview and summary......Page 216
Notes......Page 224
References......Page 228
Introduction......Page 231
Affluence and emancipation......Page 232
Rethinking the performance principle......Page 236
The Performance Principle and Nihilism......Page 239
The Performance Principle and Domination......Page 241
Re-thinking repressive de-sublimation......Page 242
Imagination, play and well-being......Page 245
Notes......Page 252
References......Page 255
Introduction......Page 257
One-dimensionality and the performance principle......Page 259
Restricted Eros (libido) and the creation of one-dimensional humanity......Page 262
Politics, pseudo morality, and the negation of the political and the moral......Page 263
Eros: the psychic remainder......Page 268
References......Page 270
The radical present: the psychopolitics of transformation in Marcuse......Page 272
Notes......Page 283
Pedagogy against ‘‘dis-utopia’’: from conscientization to the education of desire......Page 284
Critical sociology and the possibility of possibility......Page 285
Critical theory and critical pedagogy: challenges in theory and practice......Page 287
Post-modern capitalism - the ’end of social dreams’?......Page 290
Need, desire and hope in critical theory......Page 295
Classical roots of critical-utopian education......Page 298
From conscientization to the ’education of desire’......Page 304
Conclusion......Page 307
Notes......Page 310
References......Page 314
Governmental rationality and popular sovereignty......Page 319
Rationalities of government......Page 320
Popular sovereignty and the modalities of resistance......Page 326
Governmental rationality as symbolic struggle......Page 330
Counter-government and the politics of truth......Page 333
Governmental rationality from below......Page 337
Notes......Page 339
References......Page 341
I......Page 343
II......Page 344
III......Page 347
IV......Page 353
V......Page 357
VI......Page 359
VII......Page 362
VIII......Page 365
IX......Page 368
X......Page 369
Notes......Page 370
References......Page 371
The sociological theory of C. Wright Mills: toward a critique of postmodernity......Page 373
I......Page 374
II......Page 376
III......Page 381
IV......Page 385
Notes......Page 388
References......Page 389

"Since the linguistic turn in Frankfurt School critical theory during the 1970s, philosophical concerns have become increasingly important to its overall agenda, at the expense of concrete social-scientific inquiries. At the same time, each of the individual social sciences have been moving further and further away from the challenge key representatives of the so-called "first generation" of Frankfurt School critical theorists identified as central to the promise and responsibility of social science: to illuminate those dimensions of modern societies that prevent the reconciliation of facts and norms. This volume highlights the problematic nature of mainstream perspectives, and the growing need to reaffirm how the specific kind of critique the early Frankfurt School theorists advocated is not less, but far more important today."--Jacket

2011-06-04