Globalizing Critical Theory

by Pensky, Max; Bohman, James; Derrida, Jacques; Fraser, Nancy; Habermas, Jürgen; Hohendahl, Peter Uwe; Huyssen, Andreas; Lara, María Pía; López, Silvia L.; McCarthy, Thomas; Mendieta, Eduardo; Scribner, F Scott; Steinman, Clay; Strathausen, Carsten

• ISBN13: 9780742534490
• ISBN10: 0742534499
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-02-03
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Across a spectrum of academic disciplines, the topic of globalization is at the forefront of contemporary efforts to understand a dynamically changing world society. How might critical social theory respond creatively to the challenge of thinking and theorizing globalization in its full complexity? Globalizing Critical Theory collects essays by scholars at the forefront of Critical Theory as they confront this timely topic. This book offers readers a chance to see contemporary Critical Theory in its full range--from political analyses of a global public sphere, critical race theory, and the politics of memory, to aesthetics and media studies. It includes crucial new essays by JYrgen on the transformations of the global order in the wake of the American invasion of Iraq, and major interventions by Nancy Fraser, Peter Hohendahl, Andreas Huyssen, James Bohman, and others. Globalizing Critical Theory provides a fascinating exploration of how Critical Theory is confronting the question of globalization--and how globalization is transforming Critical Theory.

Table of Contents

Globalizing Theory, Theorizing Globalization: Introduction	1	(18)
Max Pensky
Part I: Globalization and Hegemony: Two Interventions
1 Interpreting the Fall of a Monument	19	(8)
Jürgen Habermas
2 February 15; or, What Binds Europeans Together: A Plea for a Common Foreign Policy, Beginning in Core Europe	27	(10)
Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida
Part II: The Global Public Sphere
3 Transnationalizing the Public Sphere	37	(11)
Nancy Fraser
4 Toward a Critical Theory of Globalization: Democratic Practice and Multiperspectival Inquiry	48	(24)
James Bohman
5 Democratic Institutions and Cosmopolitan Solidarity	72	(17)
Maria Pia Lara
6 The Transnational University and the Global Public Sphere	89	(26)
Peter Uwe Hohendahl
Part III: Race, Memory, Forgetting
7 Beyond Eurocentrism: The Frankfurt School and Whiteness Theory	115	(23)
Clay Steinman
8 Vergangenheitsbewaltigung in the United States: On the Politics of the Memory of Slavery	138	(27)
Thomas McCarthy
9 Resistance to Memory: The Uses and Abuses of Public Forgetting	165
Andreas Huyssen
Part IV: Globalizing Visions: Science, Technology, Aesthetics
10 Globalizing Critical Theory of Science	187	(22)
Eduardo Mendieta
11 In the Stocking-Steps of Walter Benjamin: Critical Theory, Television, and the Global Imagination	209	(12)
F. Scott Scribner
12 Adorno; or, The End of Aesthetics	221	(20)
Carsten Strathausen
13 Peripheral Glances: Adorno's Aesthetic Theory in Brazil	241	(12)
Silvia L. López
Index	253