New Critical Theory

Essays on Liberation

By (author) William S. Wilkerson, Jeffrey Paris

Publication date:

27 November 2001

Length of book:

288 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Dimensions:

235x156mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9780742512771

New Critical Theory surveys contemporary leftist thought while introducing the tenets of this new form of critical theory. Beginning with an exploration of the relationship between Marxism, Habermas, and the politics of identity, William S. Wilkerson and Jeffrey R. Paris present a collection that critiques the globalization of capital. The development of personality appears as subject to socialized standards in an age of global capitalism. Only after scrutinizing the effects of such a system can liberation be found. The essays within join Critical Theory with postmodern insights on language and subjectivity to provide a more comprehensive view of emancipatory social theory. Through this and other refelctions on critical race, gender, and queer theories, Wilkerson and Paris emerge with an encompassing volume defining New Critical Theory.

Chapter 1 Foreword: Back to the Future: Marcuse and the New Critical Theory
Chapter 2 Introduction: Why a New Critical Theory?
Part 3 Visions and Methods
Chapter 4 Obstinate Critique and the Possibility of the Future
Chapter 5 Redemption in the Impasse: An Other Communism
Chapter 6 Toward a New Critical Theory
Chapter 7 Inhabiting Hope: Contributions to a New Materialist Phenomenology
Part 8 Intersections beyond Postmodernism
Chapter 9 Marcuse and the Quest for Radical Subjectivity
Chapter 10 Challenging the Colonial Contract: The Zapatistas Insurgent Imagination
Part 11 Critique of Technology
Chapter 12 Marcuse and the Aestheticization of Technology
Chapter 13 Women Carrying Water: At the Crossroads of Technology and Critical Theory
Chapter 14 Chronotopology: Critique of Spatiotemporal Regimes
Part 15 Race, Sexuality, and the Normative Foundations of Criticism
Chapter 16 Can Queer Theory Be Critical Theory?
Chapter 17 The Mother Wit of Justice: Eros and Hubris in the African-American Context
Chapter 18 Imagining the Horizon
Part 19 Index

"This collection brings together some of the most exciting voices writing in critical theory today. The essays included in the volume show us how critical theory can be expanded to include the burning issues of multiculturalism; racial, ethnic, and language politics; and the pressing demands of feminism."