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Critical Theory Today: An Old Paradigm for New Challenges?, special issue of Azimuth Journal, VIII, 16, 2020, edited by G. Cavallo and G. Fazio, 2020
This issue of Azimuth aims at exploring the possibilities that recent theoretical and methodological reflections can offer for the diagnosis of present social pathologies. In particular, the Editors have collected papers which are representative of the way in which Critical Theory is trying nowadays to re-establish a link between social philosophy and empirical research on the background of an interdisciplinary approach which includes psychoanalysis, sociology, epistemology, and the natural sciences. Taken together, these different lines of research show the fertility and vitality of a tradition, as well as they point out some contradictions and some worrying signs of regression in our societies *** With contributions by: Vera King, Ferdinand Sutterlüty, Katia Genel, Claudia Leeb, Frieder Vogelmann, Jean-Philipp Kruse, Rodrigo Duarte, Carl Cassegård, Emmanuel Renault, Gonçalo Marcelo, Jean-Baptiste Vuillerod, Emmanuel Charreau, Felipe Torres. http://www.azimuthjournal.com/2021/01/30/critical-theory-today-an-old-paradigm-for-new-challenges/
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Azimuth. Philosophical Coordinates in Modern and Contemporary Age, 2020
This issue of "Azimuth" aims at exploring the possibilities that recent theoretical and methodological reflections can offer for the diagnosis of present social pathologies. In particular, the Editors have collected papers which are representative of the way in which Critical Theory is trying nowadays to re-establish a link between social philosophy and empirical research on the background of an interdisciplinary approach which includes psychoanalysis, sociology, epistemology, and the natural sciences. Taken together, these different lines of research show the fertility and vitality of a tradition, as well as they point out some contradictions and some worrying signs of regression in our societies.
Abstract Is Critical Theory a part of our knowledge we can access just in a kind of museum of history of ideas, or is Critical Theory a living part of our culture on which we can still rely in order to understand and (re)orient our society? To answer this basic question, and many others, and also to shed some light on what seems to be a recent abuse of the term “critical”, in this issue will be addressed, under different points of view, the meaning of the expression Critical Theory. The papers here collected are divided in an English and an Italian section, to facilitate the reader who is confident with, or prefers, only one of these languages. In both sections, Critical Theory is addressed in a twofold way: as regards its origins in the so-called School of Frankfurt and as concerns its further and contemporary developments, from an interdisciplinary perspective. Keywords: Critical Theory, Society, Philosophy, Sociology, Anthropology.
«Polis», The contribution of Critical Theory in understanding society, n. 4, 2016, pp. 248
Is Critical Theory a part of our knowledge we can access just in a kind of museum of history of ideas, or is Critical Theory a living part of our culture on which we can still rely in order to understand and (re)orient our society? To answer this basic question, and many others, and also to shed some light on what seems to be a recent abuse of the term “critical”, in this issue will be addressed, under different points of view, the meaning of the expression Critical Theory. The papers here collected are divided in an English and an Italian section, to facilitate the reader who is confident with, or prefers, only one of these languages. In both sections, Critical Theory is addressed in a twofold way: as regards its origins in the so-called School of Frankfurt and as concerns its further and contemporary developments, from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Critical Theory: une histoire raisonnée
A historical account detailing the emergence of critical theory in the work of Marx, the influence of Freud, the Frankfurt School synthesis, and the subsequent development of the intellectual tradition. This the first chapter of a book that I am writing called How to Criticize Society.
Analyse & Kritik, 2008
I propose a conception of critical theory that is an alternative to that of the Frankfurt School and Habermas. It is based on the assumptions that critical theory is not unique but started off with the 5th century BC movement of the sophists that aimed at an understanding of society free from superstition and prejudice, can be better understood by considering the history of social thinking, does not look for knowledge for knowledge’s sake but for solving practical problems, distinguishes basic social problems from dependent problems, looks for and defends a value to guide it both in its research and its solutions, prefers the value of capability development to that of happiness.