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This is the first study to make a detail case for the Frankfurt Schools relevance to understanding contemporary populism. It reconstructs their analysis of modern demagogy and demonstrates its advantages over orthodox populism studies and the work of Laclau. The book also extends the Institutes analysis to assess counter-demagogic forces.

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Rearticulating critical theory with a contemporary focus, this book investigates how the conditions of democratic statehood have changed at key historical intervals since 1945. It argues that a sociological approach is needed to address conceptual deficits and explain how the mechanisms of democratic statehood can be updated today. -- .

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This volume in the Critical Theory and Contemporary Society series looks at the contributions of critical theorists to the study of Europe.

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This is the first study to make a detail case for the Frankfurt Schools relevance to understanding contemporary populism. It reconstructs their analysis of modern demagogy and demonstrates its advantages over orthodox populism studies and the work of Laclau. The book also extends the Institutes analysis to assess counter-demagogic forces.

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The book explores critically disabling contexts using disability studies and phenomenology.

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Bringing the resources of critical theory to bear on the genre of dystopian fiction, this volume demonstrates both the continuing potential of Theodor Adornos work on literature, and the meaning of dystopia when considered in the light of Adornos critique of modernity.

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Bringing the resources of critical theory to bear on the genre of dystopian fiction, this volume demonstrates both the continuing potential of Theodor Adornos work on literature, and the meaning of dystopia when considered in the light of Adornos critique of modernity.

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This Critical Theory and Contemporary Society volume offers a critical review of epistemological issues in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. -- .

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This Critical Theory and Contemporary Society volume offers a critical review of epistemological issues in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. -- .

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This book examines the vital role of affect and feeling within the work of the early Frankfurt School. The author investigates a range of concepts - including melancholia, hope, (un)happiness, objects, and mimesis - and argues that a contemporary reading of critical theory needs to accommodate an adequate understanding of affect. -- .

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This book examines the vital role of affect and feeling within the work of the early Frankfurt School. The author investigates a range of concepts including melancholia, hope, (un)happiness, objects, and mimesis and argues that a contemporary reading of critical theory needs to accommodate an adequate understanding of affect.

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This Critical Theory and Contemporary Society volume analyzes how cinema can help critical theory repoliticize culture and society.

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This Critical Theory and Contemporary Society volume analyzes how cinema can help critical theory repoliticize culture and society. >

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This book describes the evolution of the human rights movement into a grand managerial project, rooted in compassion, with the aim of improving universal welfare by defining the conditions of human well-being and imposing obligations on the state and other actors to realise them. It argues that this is ultimately antagonistic to individual freedom.

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This book describes the evolution of the human rights movement into a grand managerial project, rooted in compassion, with the aim of improving universal welfare by defining the conditions of human well-being and imposing obligations on the state and other actors to realise them. It argues that this is ultimately antagonistic to individual freedom.

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This book explores intersections between contemporary critical theory and the disabled people's Independent Living movement. The book helps strengthen critiques of the state, the market, and the family by grounding them in the struggles of disabled people for self-determination.

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An introduction to critical theory in international relations summarising the history of critical thought in the discipline and its possible future.

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The first English-language collection of the work of Europe's top legal sociologists, introducing his influential theories of societal constitutionalism and legal autopoiesis. -- .

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The first English-language collection of the work of Europe's top legal sociologists, introducing his influential theories of societal constitutionalism and legal autopoiesis. -- .

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Axel Honneths critical theory of recognition has failed the Frankfurt School. A new social-theoretical foundation is urgently needed. As this book argues, Herbert Marcuse and Erich Fromm are crucial allies in this task.

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Rearticulating critical theory with a contemporary focus, this book investigates how the conditions of democratic statehood have changed at key historical intervals since 1945. It argues that a sociological approach is needed to address conceptual deficits and explain how the mechanisms of democratic statehood can be updated today. -- .

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