Critical theory and the political

Anastasia Marinopoulou

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Year: 2026
• Print ISBN:
  9781526172624
• eBook ISBN:
  9781526172617
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Critical Theory

The book addresses what is political in critical theory and which aspects, arguments or notions of critical theory maintain political significance for the 20th and the 21st centuries. The collection of essays comprises itself of a series of clear and critical perspectives that analyze the extent to which critical theory relates political argument to modern societies and, thereby, exerts a critique of the multiple social and political phenomena of late modernity. The contributors focus on a multiplicity of universal phenomena such as globalization, multiple crises, late capitalism and the social role of the sciences, and posit some novel criticism of the contemporary social sphere, as it is situated within the wider system of global capitalism. They also present a plurivalent critique that links arguments in Marxism and Freud to all three generations of critical theory.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Information
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of contributors
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Part I Essential political notions of critical theory
• Part II Democracy
• Part III Political power, civil society and globalisation
• Part IV Epistemology and the political
• Part V Praxis, public sphere and political communication
• Postscript
• Index