Critical theory and epistemology

Critical theory and epistemology
Author: Anastasia Marinopoulou
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2017-06-26
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1526105381

This volume in the Critical Theory and Contemporary Society series explores the arguments between critical theory and epistemology in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Focusing on the first and second generations of critical theorists and Luhmann’s systems theory, the book examines how each approaches epistemology. It opens by looking at twentieth-century epistemology, particularly the concept of lifeworld (Lebenswelt). It then moves on to discuss structuralism, poststructuralism, critical realism, the epistemological problematics of Foucault’s writings and the dialectics of systems theory. The aim is to explore whether the focal point for epistemology and the sciences remain that social and political interests actually form a concrete point of concern for the sciences as well.

Critical Theory and Epistemology

Critical Theory and Epistemology
Author: Anastasia Ch. Marinopoulou
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2017
Genre: Knowledge, Theory of
ISBN: 9781526128157

This volume in the 'Critical Theory and Contemporary Society' series explores the arguments between critical theory and epistemology in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Nietzsche, Theories of Knowledge, and Critical Theory

Nietzsche, Theories of Knowledge, and Critical Theory
Author: Babette Babich
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 380
Release: 1999-08-31
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780792357421

Nietzsche, Theories of Knowledge, and Critical Theory, the first volume of a two-volume book collection on Nietzsche and the Sciences, ranges from reviews of Nietzsche and the wide variety of epistemic traditions - not only pre-Socratic, but Cartesian, Leibnizian, Kantian, and post-Kantian -through essays on Nietzsche's critique of knowledge via his critique of grammar and modern culture, and culminates in an extended section on the dynamic of Nietzsche's critical philosophy seen from the perspective of Habermas and critical theory. This volume features a first-time English translation of Habermas's afterword to his own German-language collection of Nietzsche's Epistemological Writings.

Contemporary Critical Theory and Methodology

Contemporary Critical Theory and Methodology
Author: Piet Strydom
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2011-03
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 113599787X

Contemporary Critical Theory and Methodology is unique in presenting the first critical collection of texts dealing with the debate between critical theory and pragmatism. Piet Strydom focuses in particular on the implications that the relation between the two has for the methodology and research practice of contemporary critical theory.

Critique and Praxis

Critique and Praxis
Author: Bernard E. Harcourt
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 730
Release: 2020-08-11
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0231551452

Critical philosophy has always challenged the division between theory and practice. At its best, it aims to turn contemplation into emancipation, seeking to transform society in pursuit of equality, autonomy, and human flourishing. Yet today’s critical theory often seems to engage only in critique. These times of crisis demand more. Bernard E. Harcourt challenges us to move beyond decades of philosophical detours and to harness critical thought to the need for action. In a time of increasing awareness of economic and social inequality, Harcourt calls on us to make society more equal and just. Only critical theory can guide us toward a more self-reflexive pursuit of justice. Charting a vision for political action and social transformation, Harcourt argues that instead of posing the question, “What is to be done?” we must now turn it back onto ourselves and ask, and answer, “What more am I to do?” Critique and Praxis advocates for a new path forward that constantly challenges each and every one of us to ask what more we can do to realize a society based on equality and justice. Joining his decades of activism, social-justice litigation, and political engagement with his years of critical theory and philosophical work, Harcourt has written a magnum opus.

Problems of Knowledge

Problems of Knowledge
Author: Michael Williams
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2001
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780192892560

In this introduction to epistemology, Michael Williams explains and criticises traditional philosophical theories of the nature, limits, methods, possibility, and value of knowing.

Critical Theory Philosophy

Critical Theory Philosophy
Author: David Ingram
Publisher: Paragon Issues in Philosophy
Total Pages: 282
Release: 1990
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

Critical Theory and Philosophy illuminates one of the most complex and influential philosophical movements of this century. After tracking Critical Theory to its source in the works of Kant, Hegel, Marx, and Weber, David Ingram examines the four major figures of the Frankfurt School: Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Herbert Marcuse, and Jurgen Habermas. The logical structure of this text guides both novice and veteran students through specific social and political concerns toward a gradual understanding of the philosophy of critical evaluation. Includes chapters on: · The Philosophical Roots of Critical Theory · Freud and the Problem of Ideology · Weber and the Dialectic of Enlightenment · Marcuse and the New Politics of Liberation · Horkheimer and Habermas on Critical Methodology · Contemporary Trends in Social Philosophy

Knowledge and Ideology

Knowledge and Ideology
Author: Michael Morris
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2016-11-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 110717709X

For political philosophers, Morris provides an epistemology that integrates social interests within a normative account of knowledge.

Introduction to Critical Theory

Introduction to Critical Theory
Author: David Held
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 641
Release: 2013-05-02
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0745668399

The writings of the Frankfurt school, in particular of Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse, and Jurgen Habermas, caught the imagination of the radical movements of the 1960s and 1970s and became a key element in the Marxism of the New Left. Partly due to their rise to prominence during the political turmoil of the 1960s, the work of these critical theorists has been the subject of continuing controversy in both political and academic circles. However, their ideas are frequently misunderstood. In this major work, now available from Polity Press, David Held presents a much-needed introduction to, and evaluation of, critical theory. Some of the major themes he considers are critical theory's relation to Marx's critique of political economy, Freudian psychoanalysis, aesthetics and the philosophy of history. There is also an extended discussion of critical theory's substantive contribution to the analysis of capitalism, culture, the family, the individual, as well as its contribution to epistemology and methodology.