Rational Radicalism and Political Theory: Essays in Honor of Stephen Eric Bronner/Critical Theory: A Very Short Introduction

2011 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 394-396
Author(s):  
David Schultz
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Short Introduction

Human Nature, Non-human Nature, and Needs

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Biro
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Deliberative Democracy ◽  
Frankfurt School ◽  
Instrumental Rationality ◽  
Communicative Rationality ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Human Needs

This chapter assesses the relevance of Frankfurt School critical theory for contemporary environmental political theory. Early Frankfurt School thinkers such as Adorno, Horkheimer, and Marcuse developed a critique of instrumental rationality that provides a powerful framework for understanding the domination of nature in modernity, including an inability to articulate and defend human needs. Habermas subsequently attempts to mitigate this totalizing critique, countering instrumental rationality with a focus on communicative rationality. This Habermasian turn both provides new openings and forecloses certain possibilities for environmental political theory; deliberative democracy is emphasized, but with a renewed commitment to anthropocentrism. The chapter then explores whether Habermas’s communicative turn could be “greened,” either through an expansion of the subjects of communicative rationality, or by critically examining the extent to which human beings themselves can articulate their genuine needs.

scholarly journals Kritik in der Krise

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
Political Thinking ◽  
Critical Political Theory

In times of crises, critical thinking needs to be maintained and fostered. This volume on critical political theory in the coronavirus pandemic brings together 13 contributions that offer a variety of perspectives on the interrelationship between critique and crisis. What are the consequences of the current crisis for critical political thinking—and what contribution can critical theory offer to our understanding of current challenges? With contributions by Clara Arnold, Simon Duncker, Oliver Flügel-Martinsen, Lea Jonas, Kristoffer Klement, Jamila Maldous, Noah Marschner, Samia Mohammed, Malte Pasler, Demokrat Ramadani, Gerrit Tiefenthal, Andreas Vasilache and Nele Weiher.

scholarly journals Ivers oeuvre

2019 ◽  
Vol 77 (2) ◽  
pp. 148
Author(s):  
Torbjørn L. Knutsen
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Great Influence ◽  
English School ◽  
Post Modernism ◽  
Political Studies ◽  
Science Community ◽  
Anchor Points ◽  
Anglo American

Iver Neumann has been one of the most productive and visible foreign policy and IR scholars of his generation. He has had great influence both internationally and at NUPI. He has, however, not become a prophet in his own country. Norway’s political science community has expressed little interest in the three traditions that have been the lasting anchor points in Neumann’s works: the English School, the German tradition of critical theory and French post-modernism. This article suggests that Norwegian political studies have expressed a lack of curiosity – if not an active skepticism – towards political theory in general and continental approaches in particular. The errand here is not to wonder why. Rather, it is to provide the briefest of glimpses into some of the perspectives that lie outside the Anglo-American, methodological mainstream of Norwegian political science.

Machiavelli: A Very Short Introduction

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Quentin Skinner
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Niccolo Machiavelli ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
Political Theorist ◽  
Niccolò Machiavelli ◽  
Political Works

Machiavelli: A Very Short Introduction considers the life and impact of the Florentine Renaissance humanist, diplomat, historian, and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. Machiavelli taught that political leaders must be prepared to do evil so that good may come of it, and his name has been a byword ever since for duplicity and immorality. This VSI considers whether his sinister reputation is deserved, focusing on his three major political works, The Prince, the Discourses, and The Florentine Histories. This new edition discusses how Machiavelli developed his neo-classical political theory through engaging in continual dialogue with the ancient Roman moralists and historians, especially Cicero and Livy.

Critical International Political Theory

2018 ◽  
pp. 73-86
Author(s):  
Anna Jurkevics ◽  
Seyla Benhabib
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Domestic Politics ◽  
World Order ◽  
International Political Theory ◽  
American Hegemony ◽  
And Migration ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter assesses debates within the field of Critical Theory, broadly conceived, on central themes of international politics, including sovereignty, human rights, and American hegemony. After the Cold War, many critical theorists followed Jürgen Habermas’s shift in focus from domestic politics to the “post-national constellation.” We explore Habermasian critiques of Westphalian sovereignty and the accompanying call for cosmopolitan solutions to crises of human rights and migration. We also consider the critical re-evaluations of sovereignty that arose following 9/11 in response to the American “war on terror.” Finally, we turn to the recent return to sovereignty within Critical Theory. The most convincing new approaches call for a nuanced evaluation of the relationship between sovereignty and cosmopolitanism in order to rethink the institutional configuration of a world order that is already decidedly post-national.

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