Critique in a Neoliberal Age 9781472460998, 9781315609799

Table of contents :
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1 Critique as ideology critique in a neoliberal age
Critique as ideology critique
Market justice and social justice: drawing the battle lines
The battle between political rationalities
Ideology critique in a neoliberal age
Concluding remarks
References
Chapter 2 Sociology and critique
Peter Wagner: sociology as a political project
Axel Honneth: sociology’s contribution to critical theory
Agnes Heller: sociology as critique in the neoliberal universities
References
Chapter 3 The dialectic of critique and progress: Comparing Peter Wagner and Theodor Adorno
Peter Wagner: progress reconstructed
Theodor Adorno: progress in the age of catastrophe
The dialectics of progress and critique: challenges to Eurocentric social theory
Conclusion: a critical humanist reconstruction of ‘progress’?
References
Chapter 4 The embedded market and ideology critique
The ‘embedded economy’ as critique
Capitalism’s new spirit
Fictitious commodities and ideology critique
Conclusion: reflections on Axel Honneth’s Polanyi
References
Chapter 5 Common cause? The political rationalities of populism and neoliberalism
Populism: a politically flexible mode of mobilization?
Fever warning or democracy’s inner enemy?
A revival of the political?
Conclusion
References
Chapter 6 De-politicizing needs: Therapy culture and the ‘happiness turn’
Obstacles for normatively grounded critique
Eva Illouz: immanent critique
Therapy culture and ideology critique
Conclusion
References
Chapter 7 The rationality potentials of intimacy: In search of a critical pulse
Normative continuities
Normative discontinuities
Negotiating a field of tensions: insights drawn from Hegel
Conclusion
References
Chapter 8 The critic’s role: Debating Nancy Fraser’s feminism
Feminism as critique
‘Gender justice’ and the neoliberal offensive
Struggling with neoliberal ‘resignifications’
Conclusion
References
Chapter 9 Learning from the Budapest School women: The politics of need interpretation
Feminism without revolution?
Feminism as radical need
Feminism and the politicization of needs
Women and success
Conclusion: a cast of feminist characters
References
Chapter 10 Conclusion
References
Index

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