Critique as Social Practice: Critical Theory and Social Self-Understanding - Paperback

by Robin Celikates (Author), Naomi Van Steenbergen (Translator)

This book provides an overview of recent debates about critical theory from Pierre Bourdieu via Luc Boltanski to the Frankfurt School. Robin Celikates investigates the relevance of the self-understanding of ordinary agents and of their practices of critique for the theoretical and emancipatory project of critical theory.

Author Biography

Robin Celikates is Professor of Social Philosophy at the Free University Berlin. Naomi van Steenbergen is a Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer at Utrecht University, Netherlands.