Discourses on Liberation: An Anatomy of Critical Theory
Author:   Kyung-Man Kim
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
ISBN:  

9781594511271


Pages:   156
Publication Date:   15 August 2005
Format:   Hardback
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Discourses on Liberation: An Anatomy of Critical Theory


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Author:   Kyung-Man Kim
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.340kg
ISBN:  

9781594511271


ISBN 10:   1594511276
Pages:   156
Publication Date:   15 August 2005
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The Management of Temporality; Chapter 3 Can Bourdieu's Critical Theory Liberate Us from Symbolic Violence?; Chapter 4 Critical Theory Criticized; Chapter 5 On the Failure of Habermas's Hermeneutic Reconstructionism; Chapter 6 Is Social Theory an Interactive Kind?; Chapter 7 Richard Rorty's Critique of the Will to Power; Chapter 8 Epilogue;

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Kyung-Man Kim offers a comprehensive inventory of the obstacles the most powerful and influential thinkers of our time tried to overcome, the questions they asked without finding good answers, and the questions they've overlooked or avoided. No one concerned with the ethical impact of knowledge and the role it may play in winning the case of human freedom can neglect Kyung-Man Kim's analysis. -Zygmunt Bauman This is a powerful book, compelling for every reader who wants to know how current sociological theory can be used to change, not just interpret, the social world. Kyung-man Kim offers masterful readings of the main theoretical formations of the last century. -Norman K. Denzin, University of Illinois A lucid exposition and critique of Bourdieu, Giddens, and Habermas, and of the phenomenological ethnographies of Garfinkel and the ethnomethodologists who provided their starting point. Kim, who has honed his skills in his acute contributions to the hyper-reflexive sociology of scientific knowledge, now successfully takes on the big game of the emancipatory theory world. -Randall Collins, University of Pennsylvania


'Kyung-Man Kim offers a comprehensive inventory of the obstacles the most powerful and influential thinkers of our time tried to overcome, the questions they asked without finding good answers, and the questions they've overlooked or avoided. No one concerned with the ethical impact of knowledge and the role it may play in winning the case of human freedom can neglect Kyung-Man Kim's analysis.' Zygmut Bauman 'This is a powerful book, compelling for every reader who wants to know how current sociological theory can be used to change, not just interpret, the social world. Kyung-man Kim offers masterful readings of the main theoretical formations of the last century.' Norman K. Denzin, University of Illinois


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Kyung-Man Kim Department of Sociology Sogang University, Korea

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