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The SAGE Handbook of Frankfurt School Critical Theory expounds the development of critical theory from its founding thinkers to its contemporary formulations in an interdisciplinary setting. It maps the terrain of a critical social theory, expounding its distinctive character vis-a-vis alternative theoretical perspectives, exploring its theoretical foundations and developments, conceptualising its subject matters both past and present, and signalling its possible future in a time of great uncertainty. Taking a distinctively theoretical, interdisciplinary, international and contemporary perspective on the topic, this wide-ranging collection of chapters is arranged thematically over three volumes: Volume I: Key Texts and Contributions to a Critical Theory of Society Volume II: Themes Volume III: Contexts This Handbook is essential reading for scholars and students in the field, showcasing the scholarly rigor, intellectual acuteness and negative force of critical social theory, past and present.
Critical Theory and Recognition
Critical Theory and Recognition
For most of the twentieth century, academic political theory addressed liberal themes. It has operated, that is, with a conception of human individuals as beings who possess an ‘area of personal freedom’ (Miller, 2006: 40–7) – the area itself being clear-cut and hard-edged. Perhaps for this reason, the notion of ‘recognition’ has not found favour in it. Whoever speaks of ‘recognition’ sees individual identity as socially constructed and not as something self-enclosed or atomistic.
This said, the term ‘recognition’ found acceptance in political theory in the last decade of the twentieth century. In an influential article of 1992, Charles Taylor turned to this concept as a means of ...
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