Ray, Larry J. (1993) Rethinking Critical Theory: Emancipation in the Age of Global Social Movements. SAGE Publications Ltd, London, 224 pp. ISBN 978-0-8039-8364-9. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:38803)
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Abstract
In Rethinking Critical Theory, Larry Ray effectively outlines the fundamental concepts of Habermas' Critical Theory. Developing an analysis of such ideas as the public sphere, communicative action, and the colonization of the lifeworld, he examines the insights that critical theory can offer global analysis--and its relation to global social change. Ray argues that, on the one hand, modernity is poised between the threat of authoritarian politics of identity, and on the other, it is between the promise of opening up new democratic communicative organizations. The analysis is illustrated by a detailed discussion of post-communist eastern Europe, Islamic revivalism in Iran, and the liberation struggle in South Africa. Exploring the potential for critical and emancipatory politics of social movements, Rethinking Critical Theory will be of interest to students and scholars in social theory, philosophy, sociology, and development studies. "Author Larry J. Ray makes important contributions to the rethinking of both critical theory and social movement theory." -Contemporary Sociology
Item Type: | Book |
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research |
Depositing User: | Mita Mondal |
Date Deposited: | 18 Mar 2014 11:46 UTC |
Last Modified: | 05 Nov 2024 10:23 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/38803 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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