Just theory : an alternative history of the western tradition /
Just theory offers an alternative history of critical theory in the context of the birth and transformation of the Western philosophical tradition. But rather than providing a summary survey, it situates the production of theoretical texts within the geopolitical economy of just two pivotal cultural...
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Urbana, Illinois :
National Council of Teachers of English,
[2019]
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Obsah:
- Preface: what is just theory?
- Introduction: framing the common good
- Cultural turn 1. Inventing western metaphysics
- Why is Plato so upset at the poets, and what is western metaphysics?
- Reframing the republic : from the homeric to the platonic paideia
- Finding love (and writing) in all the wrong places : Plato's pharmacy and the double-edged sword of literacy in the Phaedrus
- Aristotle's natural classification of things : when dialectic trumps rhetoric and poetry gets rescued
- Cultural turn 2. Rewriting western metaphysics : aesthetics and politics in the age of capital
- Rewriting western metaphysics for a revolutionary age
- The prelude to the revolution : the limits of literary freedom in a market society
- Women's rights, class wars, and the master-slave dialectic : signs of the rising countermovements
- The struggle between communality and hierarchy : lessons of the paris commune for the twenty-first century
- From God's great chain to nature's slow-motion evolution : reframing our regulative fictions
- Cultural turn 3. Surviving the sixth extinction and resolving the crisis of care
- Epilogue.