100 Years of the Institute for Social Research
An interview with director of the Institute for Social Research, Stephan Lessenich, about the tradition and future of a critical theory of society.
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Posts tagged: critical-theory
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Fredric Jameson Bookshelf
Complete your Fredric Jameson bookshelf with this reading list! All 40% off (print books) and 60% off (ebooks) until January 4th.
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The Painter, the People and the Union
In this new edition of a classic, The Intellectual and His People, Jacques Rancière analyzes a question key to struggle: How does the intellectual relate to the masses they theorize about and, ultimately, for?
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Politics, Power, and Promises
Jacques Rancière explains the temporality of the promise and how it shapes our political reality.
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Commodification: Intellectual History of a Concept and Process
Fredric Jameson demonstrates that it is the moment of reification which enables the emergence of commodification as such; or to put it the other way around, the existence of a tendency to commodification is then what motivates reification and encourages its influence in all kinds of areas (the psychic and the cultural, for example) in which it did not previously hold sway or seem applicable.
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The last nineteenth century German philosopher: Habermas at 90
Raymond Geuss' recent article discussing the German philosopher Jürgen Habermas on the occasion of his 90th birthday sparked a fierce controversy. Here Raymond Geuss responds to his critics and argues that the liberal philosophy of Habermas is fundamentally inadequate in the face of the crises of contemporary capitalism.
