Critical Theory and Poststructuralism
In Search of a Context
1st Edition
Published on 15. May 2019
200 pages
978-1-5017-4618-5 (ISBN)
Description
In Critical Theory and Poststructuralism Mark Poster enacts a dialogue between the French poststructuralists, especially Michel Foucault, and the tradition of critical social theory as developed by the Frankfurt School and by other Continental theorists such as Jean-Paul Sartre. These confrontations between poststructuralists who represent "postmodern" thought and theorists committed the "modern" project of the Enlightenment is, according to Poster, of urgent importance because of the failure of critical theory to sustain a convincing critique of today's radically changed social formation. -- Cornell University Press
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Language
English
Place of publication
Ithaca
United States
Target group
Interest Age: From 18 years
Edition type
Digital original
Illustrations
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ISBN-13
978-1-5017-4618-5 (9781501746185)
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Critical Theory Poststruct CB
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01/1989
Cornell University Press
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Person
Mark Poster is Professor of History and Director of the Critical Theory Institute at the University of California, Irvine. -- Cornell University Press
Content
- Cover
- Critical Theory and Poststructuralism
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Theory and the Problem of Context
- 1 The Modern versus the Postmodern
- 2 Sartre' s Concept of the Intellectual
- 3 Foucault and the Problem of Self-Constitution
- 4 Foucault, the Present, and History
- 5 Foucault and the Tyranny of Greece
- 6 Foucault, Poststructuralism, and the Mode of Information
- 7 The Mode of Information
- 8 The Family and the Mode of Information
- Index
