Globalizing Critical Theory

Contributions by James Bohman, Jacques Derrida, Nancy Fraser, Jürgen Habermas, Peter Uwe Hohendahl, Andreas Huyssen, María Pía Lara, Silvia L. López, Thomas McCarthy, Eduardo Mendieta Professor of Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University, F Scott Scribner, Clay Steinman, Carsten Strathausen Edited by Max Pensky

Publication date:

03 February 2005

Length of book:

264 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Dimensions:

230x147mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9780742534490

Across a spectrum of academic disciplines, the topic of globalization is at the forefront of contemporary efforts to understand a dynamically changing world society. How might critical social theory respond creatively to the challenge of thinking and theorizing globalization in its full complexity? Globalizing Critical Theory collects essays by scholars at the forefront of Critical Theory as they confront this timely topic. This book offers readers a chance to see contemporary Critical Theory in its full range—from political analyses of a global public sphere, critical race theory, and the politics of memory, to aesthetics and media studies. It includes crucial new essays by Jürgen on the transformations of the global order in the wake of the American invasion of Iraq, and major interventions by Nancy Fraser, Peter Hohendahl, Andreas Huyssen, James Bohman, and others. Globalizing Critical Theory provides a fascinating exploration of how Critical Theory is confronting the question of globalization—and how globalization is transforming Critical Theory.

Chapter 1 Globalizing Theory, Theorizing Globalization: Introduction
Part 2 Part I: Globalization and Hegemony: Two Interventions
Chapter 3 Interpreting the Fall of a Monument
Chapter 4 February 15; or, What Binds Europeans Together: A Plea for a Common Foreign Policy, Beginning in Core Europe
Part 5 Part II: The Global Public Sphere
Chapter 6 Transnationalizing the Public Sphere
Chapter 7 Toward a Critical Theory of Globalization: Democratic Practice and Multiperspectival Inquiry
Chapter 8 Democratic Institutions and Cosmopolitan Solidarity
Chapter 9 The Transnational University and the Global Public Sphere
Part 10 Part III: Race, Memory, Forgetting
Chapter 11 Beyond Eurocentrism: The Frankfurt School and Whiteness Theory
Chapter 12 Vergangenheitsbewältigung in the United States: On the Politics of the Memory of Slavery
Chapter 13 Resistance to Memory: The Uses and Abuses of Public Forgetting
Part 14 Part IV: Globalizing Visions: Science, Technology, Aesthetics
Chapter 15 Globalizing Critical Theory of Science
Chapter 16 In the Stocking-Steps of Walter Benjamin: Critical Theory, Television, and the Global Imagination
Chapter 17 Adorno; or, The End of Aesthetics
Chapter 18 Peripheral Glances: Adorno's Aesthetic Theory in Brazil

The collection of articles, edited and introduced by Max Pensky, is an important document of the intellectual actuality of Critical Theory today. This book explains the reason why Critical Theory today has been developed into an important philosophical and political theory which is critically reflecting on the process of globalization and supports the constitution of a structure of cosmopolitan democratic institutions, of a worldwide democratic law, and of a global public sphere.