Critical Theory and Poststructuralism: In Search of a Context

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Cornell University Press, 2019 M05 15 - 200 páginas

In Critical Theory and Poststructuralism Mark Poster enacts a dialogue between the French poststructuralists, especially Michel Foucault, and the tradition of critical social theory as developed by the Frankfurt School and by other Continental theorists such as Jean-Paul Sartre. These confrontations between poststructuralists who represent "postmodern" thought and theorists committed the "modern" project of the Enlightenment is, according to Poster, of urgent importance because of the failure of critical theory to sustain a convincing critique of today's radically changed social formation.

 

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Theory and the Problem of Context
1
1 The Modern versus the Postmodern
12
2 Sartre s Concept of the Intellectual
34
3 Foucault and the Problem of SelfConstitution
53
4 Foucault the Present and History
70
5 Foucault and the Tyranny of Greece
87
6 Foucault Poststructuralism and the Mode of Information
104
7 The Mode of Information
124
8 The Family and the Mode of Information
143
Index
171

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Mark Poster is Professor of History and Director of the Critical Theory Institute at the University of California, Irvine.

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