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Critical Theory refers to a form of self-reflexive social critique as well as a particular tradition associated with the Institute for Social Research (Institut für Sozialforschung), a.k.a. the Frankfurt School. Early Frankfurt School theorists combined a Hegelian Marxist social criticism with other emancipatory approaches, such as psychoanalysis and cultural critique, taking a genuinely anti-positivist and interdisciplinary approach. Critical theory was intended to contribute to the “intensification of the struggle with which the theory is connected,” wrote Horkheimer, becoming a material force in the “transformation of society as a whole” (219). Theorists associated with the early Frankfurt School include Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Herbert Marcuse, and Walter Benjamin, while contemporary figures such as Jürgen Habermas, Axel Honneth, Nancy Fraser, and Seyla Benhabib continue the tradition with non-Marxist forms of critique grounded in, for example, communicative reason and social recognition. Today, Critical Theory refers to a broader spectrum of social theorists in poststructuralist, feminist, queer, critical race, disability, and postcolonial theory, such as Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, Angela Davis, Paulo Freire, Frantz Fanon, Enrique Dussel, Gayatri Spivak, Giorgio Agamben, Jacque Rancière, and Slavoj Žižek.

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Max Horkheimer’s 1937 essay “Traditional and Critical Theory” (in Horkheimer 1972) is a foundational text, outlining the Institute’s interdisciplinary methodology and critique of "traditional" theory. Other important works by early Frankfurt School theorists include Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment; Theodor Adorno, Minima Moralia and Negative Dialectics; short works by Walter Benjamin in Illuminations and Reflections, particularly his essays “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” and “On Violence”; and Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man and Eros and Civilization. Jürgen Habermas’ two-volume work The Theory of Communicative Action represents a break from the earlier Marxist tendencies of the Institute, laying out a new normative foundation for critique in communicative reason. Axel Honneth, the current director of the Institute for Social Research, has alternatively reconstructed the Hegelian notion of social recognition in his critiques of social injustices and social pathologies in Struggle for Recognition and Freedom’s Right. Seyla Benhabib’s Critique, Norm, and Utopia and Nancy Fraser’s Unruly Practices are also important works in the Frankfurt School tradition. Seminal texts beyond this tradition include, for example, Frantz Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth, Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish, Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble Enrique Dussel’s Ethics of Liberation, Gayatri Spivak’s “Can the Subaltern Speak?”, and Giorgio Agamben’s Homo Sacer.

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The best scholarly introductions to the Frankfurt School tradition in English are Jay 1973, Held 1980, and Wiggershaus 1994. Jay Bernstein has edited the six-volume collection: The Frankfurt School: Critical Assessment and the publications of the Institute’s journal Zeitscrift für Sozialforschung (1932-1941) are available in a nine-volume set. Notable anthologies on the Frankfurt School and critical theory more generally include Andrew Arato and Eike Gebhardt (eds.), The Essential Frankfurt School Reader, Stephen Eric Bronner and Douglas MacKay Kellner (eds.), Critical Theory and Society, David Rasmussen, The Handbook of Critical Theory, Benhabib, Butler, Cornell, and Fraser, Feminist Contentions; Seyla Benhabib and Drucilla Cornell (eds.), Feminism as Critique, William Rehg and James Bohman (eds), Pluralism and the Pragmatic Turn, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Neil Gotanda, et al. (eds.), Critical Race Theory, Philomena Essed and David Theo Goldberg (eds.), Race Critical Theories, Patrick Williams and Laura Chrisman (eds.), Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory, and two volumes on the “idea of communism”: Costas Douzinas and Slavoj Žižek (eds.),The Idea of Communism, and Slavoj Žižek (ed.), The Idea of Communism, Volume II.

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  1. Relationality, Not Universality: A Dialogue on Solidarity Across Movements, Borders and Species.Nóra Ugron, Maria Martelli & Veda Popovici - 2025 - Matters: Journal of New Materialist Research (10).
    This paper is an unfolding dialogue filled with questions and half-answers between three activists and engaged researchers from Eastern Europe, looking into the connections between different social movements, building internationalist solidarity and the possibility of (total) liberation. We think through issues such as the hegemony of what counts as politically relevant in a globalized world, the overrepresentation of Man following Sylvia Wynter, pain and grief in the face of current (social and ecological) crises and joining the fights for human and (...)
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  2. La prensa anarquista y el mito franquista de la «Reconciliación Nacional»: el uso propagandístico de los «reintegrados a la patria».Pedro García-Guirao - 2012 - In Antoni Segura I. Mas, Andreu Mayayo I. Artal & Teresa Abelló Güell (eds.), La dictadura franquista: la institucionalització d'un règim. Barcelona: Universidad de Barcelona, Publicacions i Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona. pp. 129-142.
    A continuación se va a analizar de manera breve tres periódicos libertarios publicados en el exilio francés: "Solidaridad Obrera" (1946-1961), "CNT" (1944-1961) y, por último, "Espoir" (1962-hasta la muerte de Franco). La finalidad de estas indagaciones, por un lado, va a ser crear una teoría crítica en la que se expliquen las razones por las que (en opinión de los anarquistas) el hecho de regresar a la España franquista suponía una traición absoluta tanto personal como colectiva a los principios democráticos (...)
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  3. La dictadura franquista: la institucionalització d'un règim.Antoni Segura I. Mas, Andreu Mayayo I. Artal & Teresa Abelló Güell (eds.) - 2012 - Barcelona: Universidad de Barcelona, Publicacions i Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona.
    La recerca sobre el franquisme continua revelant-nos, en ple segle XXI, dades i fets insospitats. A l’abril del 2010, els investigadors que van participar en el congrés «La dictadura franquista: la institucionalització d’un règim», organitzat pel Centre d’Estudis Històrics Internacionals (CEHI), van avançar en la recuperació de la memòria col•lectiva de l’època franquista, especialment en els inicis de la implantació del nou règim. L’interès del congrés no sols va raure en el perfil dels ponents, els principals historiadors del període, sinó (...)
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  4. Abriendo la historia, abriendo la enseñanza. Una aproximación al proyecto OpenLIVES/ Open history, open teaching. An approach to the project OpenLIVES.Pedro García-Guirao & Katherine Borthwick - 2012 - Caracteres. Estudios Culturales y Críticos de la Esfera Digital 1 (2):159-165.
    El proyecto OpenLIVES (Learning Insights from the Voices of Émigrés) se encargará de digitalizar y publicar materiales de todo tipo que documenten las experiencias de los emigrantes españoles, sobre todo por tierras francesas, alemanas e inglesas durante un período de tiempo que abarca las décadas de los 50, 60 y 70, y su posterior retorno a España; toda la información recogida será reutilizada en forma de recursos educativos en abierto. Estas fuentes primarias sobre el tema de la migración, obtenidas a (...)
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  5. Alienation as a Social Pathology: Evaluating Jaeggi's Concept of Alienation.Wouter Wiersma - forthcoming - Journal of Social Philosophy.
    This paper examines to what extent Jaeggi’s concept of alienation can account for instances of alienation that have a social cause and require a social solution. The paper argues that there are three interrelated problems with her account of alienation. First, Jaeggi’s conception of alienation is unable to make a distinction between individual and social causes of alienation. Second, Jaeggi constructs alienation as an individual failure to appropriate norms and roles properly, but in doing so, conflates two requirements for appropriation, (...)
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  6. Introduction: Noology and Technics.Dillet Benoit & Anaïs Nony - 2016 - London Journal of Critical Thought 1 (1):26-37.
    Noology is the technical life of ideology. It works at the formal and technical production of knowledge, rather than focusing on the content displayed by a specific system of thought. There are two reasons why the notion of noology must play a role in today’s critical and political debates. First, the concept of ideology has lost its relevance since its everyday meaning is far removed from the original meaning Karl Marx gave it; today ideology mainly means “political doctrine,” right-wing, left-wing, (...)
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  7. Transl.《批判经济理论如何可能?》导言/Preface, How Is Critical Economic Theory Possible?János Kis & Letian Lei - 2024 - Fudan Political Philosophy Review 16:131-151. Translated by Letian Lei.
  8. How We Make Each Other: Trans Life at the Edge of the University.Perry Zurn - 2024 - Durham, NC, USA: Duke University Press.
    Trans people have always lived in the cracks of institutions—and the university is no exception. In How We Make Each Other, Perry Zurn tells the stories of how trans people make and live their lives at the edges of the university in ways that sometimes lead to policy change but always leave participants and institutions different than they were before. Using the Five Colleges in Massachusetts as a case study, Zurn notes that Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith (...)
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  9. What is social science if not critical?Jana Bacevic - 2024 - British Journal of Sociology:1-7.
    This short article represents a contribution to the debate on the motion “Social science is explanation, or it is nothing.” While in the format of parliamentary debating the contribution would fall on the side of the opposition, I will not be arguing against explanation as such. The work of explaining is in no way oppositional to or mutually exclusive with critique. Instead, my contribution will revolve around two arguments: one is that both critique and explanation exhibit characteristics we commonly attribute (...)
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  10. Vida cotidiana, tiempo abstracto y cosificación. Un acercamiento a Historia y conciencia de clase.Osvaldo Montero Salas - 2025 - Devenires. Revista de Filosofía y Filosofía de la Cultura 26 (51):33-66.
    Historia y conciencia de clase es considerado un libro decisivo en el surgimiento de diversas problemáticas filosóficas, políticas y estéticas a principio de siglo XX. Su repercusión puede apreciarse en filosofías y perspectivas que, desde otros ámbitos teóricos, reconocieron en esta obra el abordaje de temas determinantes de la modernidad. El artículo se detiene al análisis de tres núcleos teóricos considerados medulares en Historia y conciencia de clase, y que se discurre ayudan a leer críticamente el mundo contemporáneo, a saber: (...)
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  11. “Cual si tuviera dentro del cuerpo el amor”: Marx y la subsunción metafórica del Fausto de Goethe.Osvaldo Montero Salas - 2019 - Praxis. Revista de Filosofía de la Universidad Nacional 1 (80):1-17.
    Este ensayo se propone realizar un trabajo exploratorio sobre la influencia que el Fausto de Goethe tuvo en la confección de la versión definitiva de la teoría del valor de Marx, observando la centralidad de las veces que acude a esta obra y, en especial, a los versos 2140-2141, una de las citas más empleadas por él en todas sus obras. Se parte de la hipótesis de que Fausto tiene una importancia capital en la construcción del concepto de “sujeto automático”, (...)
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  12. Geistige Allmende und objektiver Geist: Überindividuelle Phänomene menschlicher Lebenswelten.Matthias Wunsch & Steffen Kluck (eds.) - 2024 - Brill.
  13. Modern Abstract Sacrifice in Robespierre's Terror and Hitler's Holocaust.Cara S. Greene - 2025 - Chiasma: A Site for Thought 9 (1):23-42.
    In “Modern Abstract Sacrifice in Robespierre’s Terror and Hitler’s Holocaust,” I use Hegel’s analysis of Robespierre’s Terror in the Phenomenology and Adorno and Horkheimer’s analysis of the Nazi Holocaust in the Dialectic of Enlightenment to identify what I term “modern abstract sacrifice” as the dominant kind of instrumental destruction that took place during these nation-building mass-sacrifices. As I show, these events relied upon a justificatory instrumental logic—a sacrificial story—even if that sacrificial story broke down or was abandoned in practice, in (...)
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  14. Hegel and Finite of Falsehood.Isaac Miller - 2025 - Sense Publishing 47 (1):15-17.
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  15. False consciousness, hermeneutical injustice, and ideological power.Titus Stahl - 2024 - Philosophy and Social Criticism.
    Theories of ideology explain the stability of unjust social institutions by reference to the ways in which social power undermines the epistemic agency of those subordinated by them. The historically dominant model of ideology understands it as ‘false consciousness’, that is, as a set of socially distorted beliefs. The false consciousness model of ideology is, however, unsatisfactory in various respects. I argue that this, in part, explains why theorists have more recently turned to a competing model that understands the epistemic (...)
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  16. Zeitliche Dimensionen und kritische Theorie(n) des Rechts.Sonja Heimrath, Esther Neuhann, Tanja Niedernhuber, Kristina Peters, Thomas Steenbreker & Claudia Wirsing (eds.) - 2023 - Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag.
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  17. Donna J. Haraway’s ecofeminism revisited: Critical new materialist pedagogies for Anthropocenic crisis times.Delphi Carstens & Evelien Geerts - 2024 - Southern African Journal of Environmental Education 40 (1):1-16.
    By bringing feminist science studies scholar Donna J. Haraway’s A manifesto for cyborgs (1985) and Situated knowledges (1988) in line with contemporary critical new materialist thought (see Colman & Van der Tuin, 2024; Dolphijn & Van der Tuin, 2012; Geerts, 2022), this critical pedagogical and philosophical think piece tackles the problematic of Anthropocenic disruptions of the planetary biosphere for critical pedagogies and higher education (also see Carstens, 2016). It additionally encourages its readers to think through their own pedagogical conceptions and (...)
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  18. Tout contre. Tombeau de Bernard Stiegler.Anaïs Nony - 2020 - Ars Industrialis.
    Bernard Stiegler est né en philosophie comme l’on construit un édifice de sable à marée montante : toujours déjà un sacrifice. D’emblée l’expérience de la beauté et de sa perte. Son suicide marque la fin d’une vie qui n’aura eu de cesse de lutter contre les faux-semblants, les sur-codages, les symptômes accablant de vérités toutes faites. Pour quelqu’un qui, comme moi, a eu la chance de côtoyer Bernard, il est difficile de ne pas se rendre compte de la force qu’il (...)
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  19. From Dividual Power to the Ethics of Renewal in the Anthropocene.Anaïs Nony - 2017 - Azimuth. International Journal of Philosophy 9:134-147.
    The battlefield of the Anthropocene is a tragic one. It begins at the end. It emerges out of melancholy, in the locality of being not-dead-yet. As an Epoch dating the human impact on earth, the Anthropocene looks like a graveyard-to-come, one in which the story of humankind is writing its own epitaph in real time. The tragedy of our moment, or the tragic moment of our action means having to act despite knowing it is too late, searching for hope in (...)
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  20. Proletarianization of the Mind:A Media Theory of Artificial Intelligence after Simondon and Stiegler.Anaïs Nony - 2024 - Tropos. Rivista di Ermeneutica e Critica Filosofica 16 (1):116-136.
    This article draws on Bernard Stiegler and Gilbert Simondon’s work to further interrogate the psychic, social, and political problems raised by the development of Artificial Intelligence. Stiegler’s political philosophy of time-consciousness reveals three concomitants urgencies: human memory is conditioned by industrial supplements that are increasingly disruptive, capitalism has produced an entropic condition where life on earth is threaten by toxic systems, the deployment of technologies of spirits has striped individuals of their psychic and collective individuation. I read media theory along (...)
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  21. Real interests, well-being, and ideology critique.Pablo Gilabert - forthcoming - Ergo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy.
    In a common, pejorative sense of it, ideology consists in attitudes whose presence contributes to sustaining, by making them seem legitimate, social orders that are problematic. An important way a social order can be problematic concerns the prospects for well-being facing the people living in it. It can make some people wind up worse off than they could and should be. They have “real interests” that are not properly served by the social order, and the interests aligned with it are (...)
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  22. Left-Wing Populism in Power in Argentina and Greece.G. Markou - 2025 - In Mlado Ivanovic, Dustin Byrd & Jeremiah Morelock (eds.), The Many Faces of Populism: Perspectives from Critical Theory and Beyond. Brill. pp. 169–191.
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  23. The Many Faces of Populism: Perspectives from Critical Theory and Beyond.Mlado Ivanovic, Dustin Byrd & Jeremiah Morelock (eds.) - 2025 - Brill.
    Today, more than ever, it is easy to understand how populism has become such a contested word in contemporary politics. Despite its relatively short history, the term follows a rather volatile trajectory in terms of its historical development and presence as a political practice. When we look at its political and moral impact, one can see that despite its often strict national commitments and narratives, populism is rather a global political phenomenon. As embodiment of anti-establishment narratives, polarizing attitudes, and emancipatory (...)
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  24. Alienation, reification and the banking model of education: Paulo Freire’s critical theory of education.N. Govender - 2020 - Acta Academica 52 (2):204-222.
    I argue in this paper that Paulo Freire’s work Pedagogy of the oppressed should be reconsidered as a contribution to critical theory, given its proximity to first-generation critical theory concerning both theory and praxis. Pedagogy of the oppressed, I argue, is well suited to provide a viable praxis for the social critique provided by first-generation critical theory. While Freire’s critique in Pedagogy of the oppressed can be viewed typically as pedagogical in character, if we consider Freire’s classroom as a microcosm (...)
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  25. La recepción de F.W.J. Schelling en los jóvenes hegelianos, el marxismo y la Teoría Crítica.Jordi Magnet Colomer - 2024 - Quaderns de Filosofia (2):35-70.
    El presente artículo pretende dilucidar los motivos fundamentales de la recepción de F. W. J. Schelling en los jóvenes hegelianos (I), el marxismo (II) y la Teoría Crítica (III) estableciendo ciertos paralelismos y divergencias respecto al modo en que fue acogida su obra en el seno de estas tres tradiciones. En el primer apartado se toma en consideración el alcance de este influjo en la obra de L. Feuerbach, así como en algunos escritos de juventud de F. Engels. A continuación, (...)
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  26. El debilitamiento del yo en el tardocapitalismo y la nueva propaganda fascista.Jordi Magnet Colomer - 2021 - Oxímora. Revista Internacional de Ética y Política 18:37-55.
    El fermento psicológico del fascismo en las sociedades capitalistas tardías aparece vinculado al proceso de debilitamiento del yo y al necesario entrelazamiento de las disposiciones subjetivas con factores situacionales. Desentrañar los mecanismos que inciden en la expansión del carácter potencialmente fascista requiere de un análisis de las tendencias de la personalidad que favorecen su arraigo y cómo se ven fomentadas por determinados procesos sociales. El presente artículo se centra en el influjo y la interacción de tres factores objetivos y tres (...)
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  27. Designmethoden im Zeitalter ihrer technischen Reproduzierbarkeit.Gerhard Schweppenhäuser, Popp Judith-Frederike & Christian Bauer (eds.) - 2023 - Wiesbaden: Springer.
    Die Beiträge in diesem Band spiegeln den Stand der Reflexions- und Forschungsprozesse an der Fakultät Gestaltung der TH Würzburg-Schweinfurt, der HBKsaar und der New Design University in St. Pölten. Sie repräsentieren einen Prozess der Aufklärung, dessen Prüfstein Walter Benjamins Frage ist, wie sich ›die Art und Weise der Sinneswahrnehmung‹ geschichtlich gewachsener Kollektive durch neue Medientechnologien verändert.
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  28. Genauigkeit und Seele. Erkenntnisorientierte Literatur als überlegene Philosophie nach Musil und Valéry.Tom Poljanšek - 2016 - In Sebastian Hüsch & Sikander Singh (eds.), Literatur als philosophisches Erkenntnismodell: literarisch-philosophische Diskurse in Deutschland und Frankreich. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto. pp. 236-251.
    Im Umgang mit dem, was geschieht, lassen sich grundsätzlich zwei Weisen unterscheiden: Einer offenen, irritationsfreudigen Umgangsweise steht eine Erlebensweise gegenüber, die eher dazu neigt, Erlebtes zu vereindeutigen, mit ihm so schnell wie möglich fertig zu werden, es möglichst schnell möglichst abschließend zu begreifen. Während eine Person, die ersterem zuneigt, etwa einen in alltäglicher Konversation geäußerten Satz daraufhin abklopft, welche Über- und Hintersinne noch mit ihm angespielt und ausgesagt sein könnten, ob das, was sie zu hören meinte, auch wirklich das ist, (...)
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  29. American Philosophy and the Intellectual Migration: Pragmatism, Logical Empiricism, Phenomenology, Critical Theory.Sander Verhaegh (ed.) - 2025 - Berlin: De Gruyter.
    How did immigrant scholars such as Rudolf Carnap, Max Horkheimer, and Alfred Schütz influence the development of American philosophy? Why was the U.S. community more receptive to logical empiricism than to critical theory or phenomenology? This volume brings together fifteen historians of philosophy to explore the impact of the intellectual migration. -/- In the 1930s, the rise of fascism forced dozens of philosophers to flee to the United States. Prominent logical empiricists acquired positions at prestigious U.S. universities. Critical theorists moved (...)
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  30. The gender of critical theory: On the experiential grounds of critique.Paul Apostolidis - 2024 - Contemporary Political Theory 23 (4):678-681.
  31. Empirismo lógico y Teoría Crítica. Comentarios a la réplica de Otto Neurath a Max Horkheimer.Jordi Magnet Colomer - 2020 - Encrucijadas: Revista Crítica de Ciencias Sociales 20:1-19.
    La crítica de Horkheimer al empirismo lógico del Círculo de Viena en su ensayo “El último ataque a la metafísica” (1937) motivó la respuesta de Neurath, principal blanco de las críticas, con la redacción del texto “Ciencia unificada y empirismo lógico: una réplica” (1937). En el presente artículo nos ocupamos de dilucidar el contexto de la polémica entre la Teoría Crítica y el empirismo lógico. Tomamos como eje argumental de nuestra exposición el conjunto de temáticas sobre las que Horkheimer fundamentó (...)
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  32. Empirismo lógico y Teoría Crítica. Comentarios a la réplica de Otto Neurath a Max Horkheimer.Jordi Magnet Colomer - 2020 - Encrucijadas: Revista Crítica de Ciencias Sociales 20:1-19.
    La crítica de Horkheimer al empirismo lógico del Círculo de Viena en su ensayo “El último ataque a la metafísica” (1937) motivó la respuesta de Neurath, principal blanco de las críticas, con la redacción del texto “Ciencia unificada y empirismo lógico: una réplica” (1937). En el presente artículo nos ocupamos de dilucidar el contexto de la polémica entre la Teoría Crítica y el empirismo lógico. Tomamos como eje argumental de nuestra exposición el conjunto de temáticas sobre las que Horkheimer fundamentó (...)
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  33. Histories and Afterlives of Dispossession: Symposium on Robert Nichols’s Theft is Property! Dispossession and Critical Theory, Durham: Duke University Press, 2020.Brenna Bhandar, Sandy Grande, Adom Getachew & Robert Nichols - 2022 - Political Theory 50 (3):504-528.
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  34. Figuras de la realización de la filosofía en Karl Korsch y la Teoría Crítica. En el centenario de la publicación de 'Marxismo y filosofía' (1923).Jordi Magnet Colomer - 2024 - Revista Izquierdas 53:1-28.
    En el primer apartado del artículo nos ocupamos de la relación que Karl Korsch mantuvo con el Instituto de Investigación Social y con sus figuras más representativas, desde sus primeros años de funcionamiento en Frankfurt hasta el exilio en los Estados Unidos (1). En la segunda parte se lleva a cabo un contraste entre lo que Korsch y la primera Teoría Crítica entendían por ‘realización de la filosofía’ (2). Se añade un apéndice estructurado en tres temáticas suplementarias: la recepción del (...)
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  35. Axel Honneth y la 'Rechtsphilosophie' hegeliana. Una actualización problemática.Jordi Magnet Colomer - 2020 - Nicolás Marín, J. A.; Wahnón, S.; Romero Cuevas, J. M. Crítica y Hermenéutica. Granada: Comares 1:215-226.
  36. Fetichismo del valor de uso y forma natural.Osvaldo Montero Salas - 2024 - Eikasia Revista de Filosofía 123:7-47.
    Comúnmente percibido como un elemento neutral e inocente, incluso un componente aliado e indispensable en las aspiraciones de proyectos sociales alternativos, la primera parte de este artículo se dedica a problematizar el valor de uso, subrayando el particular fetichismo que le es inherente. Su tratamiento crítico se complementa con un detenido estudio de la forma natural, dimensión imprescindible sin la que la crítica de la economía política quedaría inconclusa. El artículo pretende, entonces, en primer lugar, poner al descubierto la problemática (...)
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  37. Book Review: Toward a Critical Theory of Nature: Capital, Ecology and Dialectics. [REVIEW]Austin Cottrell - 2024 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 50 (8):1282-1285.
  38. Critiquing racist ideology as harmful social norms.Keunchang Oh - 2024 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 50 (8):1194-1217.
    In what follows, I will argue that racist ideology should be understood in terms of racist social norms that constitute certain incentive structures. To this end, I will motivate my position by examining two existing accounts of ideology: those of Tommie Shelby and Sally Haslanger. First, I will begin by reconstructing Shelby’s account of racism as ideology. After analysing three dimensions of ideology (epistemic, genetic and functional), I will argue that his view is too cognitivist. In this regard, Shelby’s view (...)
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  39. The domination of nature: A forgotten theme in critical theory?Omar Dahbour - 2024 - Constellations 31 (3):368-381.
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  40. La transición de la crítica antropológica a la crítica inmanente.Jordi Magnet Colomer - 2020 - In José Manuel Romero, José A. Zamora & Gabriel Cabello Padial (eds.), Crítica inmanente de la sociedad. Barcelona: Anthropos. pp. 107-127.
    El afán de hallar un soporte antropológico u ontológico fundamental capaz de otorgar validez normativa a la crítica de la sociedad devino un recurso filosófico habitual en las contribuciones teóricas de numerosos autores a lo largo de los siglos XIX y XX. En contraste con la crítica inmanente, que se esfuerza por localizar en la propia realidad social los parámetros normativos y las posibilidades históricas para la crítica y la transformación de esa misma realidad, la crítica antropológica tomaba como criterio (...)
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  41. Climate Denial as Alienation in advance.Larry Alan Busk & Ashley Krieger - forthcoming - Radical Philosophy Review.
    This paper develops an understanding of climate denial as an expression of alienation in the sense described by Marx. We first argue for an expanded and differentiated conception of climate denial, theorizing four distinct types that go beyond the simple rejection of an anthropogenic warming trend: naturalist denialism, technological denialism, gradualist denialism, and politicized denialism. We then claim that these forms of climate denial illustrate and are illustrative of Marx’s concept of alienation from species-being (Gattungswesen). The article is intended as (...)
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  42. Critical Theory and Non-Ideal Theory.Titus Stahl - 2024 - In Hilkje Charlotte Hänel & Johanna M. Müller (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Non-Ideal Theory. New York, NY: Routledge. pp. 166-177.
    The tradition of critical theory, broadly conceived, is skeptical towards the project of ideal theory on the basis of two specific arguments developed in that tradition. One argument questions whether we are epistemically capable of conceptualizing an ideal society, whereas another argument questions whether any “ideal” can be determined by reference to norms the intelligibility and justification of which remains unchanged throughout processes of social transformation. The author argues that the epistemic argument does not rule out the possibility that idealizations (...)
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  43. Dialektische Phänomenologie und konkrete Philosophie beim frühen Marcuse.Jordi Magnet Colomer - 2021 - Zeitschrift Für Kritische Theorie 27 (52/53):144-169.
    Im besonderen philosophischen Kontext des Zwischenkriegsdeutschlands entwickelte der junge Marcuse eine originelle Rezeption in marxistischer Perspektive der existenziellen Phänomenologie und der Lebensphilosophie (I). In seinen ersten Aufsätzen »Beiträge zu einer Phänomenologie des Historischen Materialismus« (1928) und »Über konkrete Philosophie« (1929) orientierte sich diese Rezeption am Projekt der Erarbeitung einer dialektischen Phänomenologie und in Verbindung damit an dem Versuch, die radikale Tat auf den ontologischen Begriff der Geschichtlichkeit zu gründen, ohne eine materielle Komponente zu vernachlässigen (II, III, IV). In der Auseinandersetzung (...)
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  44. Zwischenwelten der Kritischen Theorie. Beiträge zu Systematik und Geschichte.Felix Brandner & Till Seidemann (eds.) - 2024 - Baden-Baden: Karl Alber.
    Versuche, eine Ideengeschichte der kritischen Theorie zu schreiben, gleichen haufig dem Vorgehen inner-halb eines kartesischen Koordinatensystems. Ausgehend von dem Anspruch, einen paradigmatischen Theoriekern zu bestimmen, werden die als wesentlich erachteten Philosopheme auf die Richtungsachsen verteilt und dann gefragt: Wovon steckt mehr drin? Mehr Marx oder mehr Freud? Mehr Hegel oder mehr Kant? Entgegen der skizzierten kartesischen Tendenz in der Ideengeschichte werfen die Beitrage des Bandes einen Blick auf den geistesgeschichtlichen Kontext, aus dem die kritische Theorie hervorging. So werden die Zwischenwelten (...)
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  45. Rewilding as Re-enchantment.Linde De Vroey - 2024 - Religions 15 (8).
    Rewilding is regularly connected to re-enchantment. In some rewilding projects, ecological restoration merges with narratives of wonder, enchantment and spirituality. While rewilding’s association with re-enchantment appears as part of its appeal, it is also criticised as anthropocentric, escapist or naive. This article aims to formulate a thorough conceptual understanding of rewilding as re-enchantment by situating it within the critical framework of (dis)enchantment developed in the early 20th century by Weber and Horkheimer and Adorno. Connecting this framework to contemporary, phenomenologically inspired (...)
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  46. La Transmodernidad como hermenéutica de la cultura.Roberto Luis Díaz Perojo - forthcoming - Tunja: Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia.
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  47. Mixing Fire and Water: A Critical Phenomenology.Eric J. Mohr - 2016 - In J. Aaron Simmons & James Hackett (eds.), Phenomenology for the 21st Century. Palgrave-Macmillan.
    Various, albeit largely incongruent, attempts have been made at demonstrating the critical force of phenomenology. Mohr seeks to rekindle the project by accentuating the critical potential hidden within a core phenomenological presupposition: the discrepancy between conceptual and intuitive meaning (logos and phenomenon). Phenomenological attention on the discrepancy itself as an experienced phenomenon constitutes the starting point of critical phenomenology. While Adorno famously rejects intuition as a viable candidate for grounding critique, Mohr argues that reflection on lived experiences and the nonformal (...)
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  48. Controversias óntico-ontológicas sobre el concepto de historicidad.Jordi Magnet Colomer - 2023 - Latin American Journal of Humanities and Educational Divergences 2 (2):4-23.
    Partiendo de un análisis introductorio en torno a las diversas interpretaciones del concepto de historicidad (Geschichtlichkeit) en las obras de W. Dilthey, P. Yorck von Wartenburg y M. Heidegger, se considera seguidamente el modo como esta polémica fue recepcionada por el joven H. Marcuse (1). En discusión con la sociología alemana de su época (K. Mannheim, S. Landshut, H. Freyer), Marcuse pretende continuar el proyecto de inclusión de la historicidad en las ciencias del espíritu iniciado por Dilthey con una orientación (...)
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  49. Ambivalences of Trans Recognition.Jules Wong - forthcoming - Hypatia.
    The need for gender recognition is widespread, even when hypervisibility and other effects of trans antagonism make that need dangerous for trans people. This reason partially accounts for why, in trans critique, recognition is a dirty word. As a political aim, and to some extent as a moral norm, trans critiques encourage dropping recognition. On the other hand, social philosophers often view recognition as a solution to misrecognition and take recognition to be a remedy for injustice. In my view, recognition (...)
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  50. The Shadow of the Object. Melancholia, Real Abstraction and the Suffering of Practice in Albrecht Dürer, Alfred Sohn-Rethel and Sigmund Freud.Florian Endres - 2024 - Zeitschrift für Ästhetik Und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft 69 (1):32-46.
    The paper proposes a parallel reading of Albrecht Dürer’s engraving ›Melencolia I‹ (1514) and Alfred Sohn-Rethel’s notion of real abstraction. It argues for a constitutive link between the abstractions operative in ›Melencolia I‹, in commodity exchange, and in certain formations of psychological suffering, most notably described in the psychoanalytic conception of melancholia theorized by Sigmund Freud and the subsequent Lacanian tradition. With and against the iconographic analysis put forward by Raymond Klibansky, Erwin Panofsky, and Fritz Saxl in ›Saturn and Melancholy‹ (...)
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