Beyond Friend and Foe
Biographical note
Volker Heins, Ph.D. (1988) in political science, Goethe University Frankfurt, is a researcher at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt and a faculty fellow at the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University. His recent publications include Nongovernmental Organizations in International Society: Struggles over Recognition (2008).
Readership
All those interested in critical social and political theory, intellectual history and contemporary continental philosophy.
Table of contents
Introduction: Critical Theory and the Political
Chapter One
Knowing the Worst: Critical Theory as Trauma Narrative
Chapter Two
From Factions to Rackets: The Traps of Conspiracy Thinking
Chapter Three
Flâneurs without Borders: Benjamin and the Cultural Politics of Travel Writing
Chapter Four
Meanings of Barbarism: Civil Society and Its Others
Chapter Five
Orientalizing America: Habermas and the Changing Discourse of Europe
Chapter Six
Age of Access? The Place of Property in Critical Theory
Chapter Seven
Realizing Honneth: Redistribution, Recognition, and Global Justice
Chapter Eight
From Persons to Peoples: The Politics of Recognition in International Society
Chapter One
Knowing the Worst: Critical Theory as Trauma Narrative
Chapter Two
From Factions to Rackets: The Traps of Conspiracy Thinking
Chapter Three
Flâneurs without Borders: Benjamin and the Cultural Politics of Travel Writing
Chapter Four
Meanings of Barbarism: Civil Society and Its Others
Chapter Five
Orientalizing America: Habermas and the Changing Discourse of Europe
Chapter Six
Age of Access? The Place of Property in Critical Theory
Chapter Seven
Realizing Honneth: Redistribution, Recognition, and Global Justice
Chapter Eight
From Persons to Peoples: The Politics of Recognition in International Society
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