Critical theory Books

This collection, written by leading Lacanian psychoanalytic theorists and practitioners, is a unique exploration of the novel aspects of perversion from the perspective of cruelty-a psychoanalytic study that has never been sufficiently undertaken in an...

This book focuses on critical approaches to the state and state theory in the Global South. In light of the reemergence of the post-colonial and peripheral state as a crucial institution and actor in the 21st century's capitalist world-system, the book...

This book explores critical pedagogy and issues relating to entrepreneurialism, commodification, and marketization in education, and their deleterious effects on student agency and subjectivity. The central theme of the book is a cross-border critical...

This handbook brings together a range of global perspectives in the field of critical studies in education to illuminate multiple ways of knowing, learning, and teaching for social wellbeing, justice, and sustainability. The handbook covers areas such as...

This book investigates the relation between Durkheim's sociology, Critical Theory, and the philosophy of social sciences. The book is organized in four sections: confronting Durkheim and other critical traditions; inquiring his social and critical...

This volume is based to a large extent on the understanding of biosemiotic literary criticism as a semiotic-model-making enterprise.  For Jurij Lotman and Thomas A. Sebeok, "nature writing is essentially a model of the relationship between...

This book demonstrates how Fredric Jameson's understanding of the novel form has heavily influenced his work as a critical theorist. It contends that Jameson's idiosyncratic engagements with the literary canon have had a major impact...

Henri Lefebvre's Critical Theory of Space offers a rigorous analysis and revival of Lefebvre's works and the context in which he produced them. Biagi traces the historical-critical time-frame of Lefebvre's intellectual investigations, bringing to light a...

Living in Disneyland is a short - yet urgent - tour de force exploration of late-stage capitalism, told through the lens of a Baudrillardian perspective. Through an aphoristic and epigrammatic style, Alex Mazey delves into the absurd...

By invoking Flora Nwapa, this monograph draws attention to Nigerian women writers in world literature, with an emphasis on femininity and spirituality. Flora Nwapa's Efuru (1966) was the first internationally published novel in English by a female...

This book explores Critical Sustainability Sciences, a new field of scientific inquiry into sustainability issues. It will be of great interest to students, scholars, and practitioners of emancipatory and intercultural approaches to sustainability...

This book provides a study of Walter Benjamin's first philosophy in two senses: it focuses on his early philosophy as a source of insight into his later works, and it explores his thinking about the nature of truth, method, experience, the relation of...

En Nada es igual: bocetos del país que nos acontece, Anayra Santory Jorge hace crónicas cotidianas y partes de prensa subversiva. Hace crítica y teoriza, de forma astuta y audaz, a propósito de nuestro momento actual en Puerto Rico. Pero, sobre...

Queering Modernist Translation explores translations by Ezra Pound, Langston Hughes, and H.D. through the concept of queering translation. As Bancroft argues, queering translation is an intersectional lens for gleaning identity and socio-cultural issues...

Henning brings theories of alienation back to better account for contemporary social pathologies. Theories of Alienation: From Rousseau to the Present shines important new light on this important field of contemporary social philosophy and is very...

This book argues that the received view of the distinction between freedom and power must be rejected because it rests on an untenable account of the discursive cognition that endows individuals with the capacity for autonomy, self-governed rationality.

In Archaic Modernism, Daniel Humphrey offers the first book-length, English-language examination of three adaptations of Greek tragedy produced by the gay and Marxist Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini: Oedipus Rex (1967), Medea (1969), and Notes...

Le Nouvel Encyclopédisme: An Alphabetical Unfolding is a collection of French essays created in the tradition of the critical philosophical dictionary of Pierre Bayle, Voltaire and the Encyclopédie. It seeks to renew the importance of the...

The book, Great Communists and their Achievements, contains Jose Maria Sison's writings celebrating the lives and achievements of great revolutionaries-Karl Marx, Frederick Engels, Vladimir Lenin, Mao Zedong, and others; and how their teachings have...

While celebrating the centenary of the "annus mirabilis" of modernism, we now encounter modernism after postmodernist, poststructuralist, postcolonial, critical race, feminist, queer and trans writing and theory. Out of the figures, narratives and...

Sensory perception and literary narration are sometimes regarded in opposition to each other. Paul de Man, for example, declared that ‘a literary text is not a phenomenal event’ and therefore ‘solicits an understanding that has to...

“ ... Je vous ai convaincu de petitesse. Vous m’en accuseriez à mon tour si je tombais dans le vice que je vous reproche, si je croyais mes vues immenses parce qu’elles s’étendront là où les...

Electracy and Transmedia StudiesSeries Editors: Jan Rune Holmevik and Cynthia HaynesA motto guiding Gregory L. Ulmer's career is from the poet Basho: not to follow in the footsteps of the masters, but to seek what they sought. The responsibility of...

Of all the topics of interest in the digital humanities, the network has received comparatively little attention. We live in a networked society: texts, sounds, ideas, people, consumerism, protest movements, politics, entertainment, academia, and other...

Explores sociology's double critique. This book opens with chapters on how to think sociologically; an overview of the scientific, humanistic, and critical schools of sociology; and, a detailed exposition of the critical tradition.

The Desire for Mutual Recognition is a work of accessible social theory that seeks to make visible the desire for authentic social connection, emanating from our social nature, that animates all human relationships.Using a social-phenomenological method...

First published in 1967, The Art of the Soluble presents collection of essays giving the views of the author on creativity and originality in science and on the logical connections between creative and critical thought.

Bringing together authors from two intellectual traditions that have, so far, generally developed independently of one another - critical theory and new materialism - this book addresses the fundamental differences and potential connections that exist...

This book presents a pragmatic engagement between the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari and various facets of Indian society, culture and art.

Birth of the Binge: Serial TV and the End of Leisure describes and details serial television and "binge watching," the exceedingly popular form of contemporary television viewing that has come to dominance over the past decade. Author Dennis...

This book engages with the idea of the Global South through cinema as a concept of resistance; as a space of decolonialisation; and as an arena of virtuality, creativity and change. It opens up a dialogue amongst scholars and filmmakers from the Global...

In assessing the current state of feminism and gender studies, whether on a theoretical or a practical level, it has become increasingly challenging to avoid the conclusion that these fields are in a state of disarray. Indeed, feminist and gender studies...

Das Buch ""System der kritischen Philosophie"" wurde im Jahr 1875 von Carl Goring ver������ffentlicht. Es handelt sich um eine umfassende Darstellung der kritischen Philosophie, die sich mit den Grundlagen der Erkenntnistheorie, der Metaphysik und der...

What makes individuals what they are? How should they judge their social and political interaction with the world? What makes them authentic or inauthentic? This original and provocative study explores the concept of "authenticity" and its relevance for...

Examines motion pictures produced or sponsored by Ford Motor Company from a rhetorical perspective, demonstrating how the films reveal a long-term rhetorical project that has helped embed corporations into many of the social systems guiding societies...

This book addresses the question: what happens after the betrayal? And it comes after the orgy of Why hasn’t JB already disappeared (Delere Press, 2017): keeping in mind that the title is in the form of a statement, and not a question; even...

This book is an attempt to respond to a text message, a textual call — to a missive sent by Tombie Rautenbach that arrived at three in the morning on 7 March 2007 — which read, « Baudrillard is dead ». But more than a eulogy, more...

Two fifths of Britain’s leading people were educated privately: that’s five times the amount as in the population as a whole, with almost a quarter graduating from Oxford or Cambridge. Eight private schools send more pupils to Oxbridge than...

Philosophical questions surrounding skill and expertise can be traced back as far as Ancient Greece, China, and India. In the twentieth century, skilled action was an important factor in the work of phenomenologists such as Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty...