Rethinking Critical Theory: Emancipation in the Age of Global Social Movements

by Larry J. Ray

In this broad-ranging text, Ray assesses Critical Theory, particularly that of J[um]urgen Habermas. Developing an analysis of such ideas as the public sphere, communicative action and the colonization of the lifeworld, he examines the insights that Critical Theory can offer global analysis and the challenges to Critical Theory from global social change.

In a detailed discussion of post-communist eastern Europe, Islamic revivalism in Iran...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803983646
• ISBN13: 9780803983649
• Release Date: August 1993
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"