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Globalization, critique and social theory diagnoses and challenges /
In recent years, under the impression and the burden of globalization and neoliberalism, debates about the relationship between the theory and practice of progress - including the theory and practice of social critique - have gone through an unexpected and momentous revival, renewal and rejuvenation...
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Format: | e-Book |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Bingley, U.K. :
Emerald,
2015.
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Series: | Current perspectives in social theory ;
v. 33. |
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Online Access: | Full-text access View in OPAC |
Summary: | In recent years, under the impression and the burden of globalization and neoliberalism, debates about the relationship between the theory and practice of progress - including the theory and practice of social critique - have gone through an unexpected and momentous revival, renewal and rejuvenation. This is due in large part to the proliferation of manifest crises in the early years of the twenty-first century. The terrorist attacks in September of 2001, the financial crisis of 2008 that spawned the Great Recession, the Euro crisis that began in fall 2010 - these events provided glimpses of the existing system of political economy, and opportunities to begin to grasp and reveal the ongoing reconstruction of business-labor-government relations in the early 21st century. Yet, in a variety of ways, the notions that theories and practices of rigorous social critique in and of modern societies could become outdated, or that they were based on a categorical misunderstanding of the nature of social, economic, political and cultural life in the modern world, were symptomatic of an ongoing reconfiguration of the system of political economy itself. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 295 p.) |
ISBN: | 9781785602467 (electronic bk.) : |
ISSN: | 0278-1204 ; |