Globalization, Critique and Social Theory: Diagnoses and Challenges (Current Perspectives in Social Theory, 33) - Hardcover

Harry F. Dahms

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1785602470 ISBN 13: 9781785602474

Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited, 2015

Synopsis

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of ways, the notions that theories and practices of rigorous social critique in and of modern societies could become outdated, or that they were based on a categorical misunderstanding of the nature of social, economic, political and cultural life in the modern world, were symptomatic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.

About this title

About the Author:

Harry F. Dahms - University of Tennessee at Knoxville, USA

Review:

In this book, Harry F. Dahms has collected contributions from a diverse group of experts in the field on the ongoing reconfiguration of the system of global political economy in the face of globalization. The ten selections that make up the main body of the text are organized in three sections devoted to the elements of a critical theory of globalization, the contributions of critique to social theory, and critical applications of political theory to ongoing globalization phenomena. Harry F. Dahms is a faculty member of the University of Tennessee. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. --Annotation ©2016 Ringgold Inc. Portland, OR (protoview.com)

About this edition

• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1785602470
• ISBN 13: 9781785602474
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Harry F. Dahms