Critique in a Neoliberal Age

✍ Scribed by Pauline Johnson

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 177
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Critique in a Neoliberal Age brings a critique of ideology to main debates within economic sociology, populism studies, the neoliberal university, therapy culture, contemporary intimacies and feminism. Over the last decades, neoliberalism has worked to lift social protections and political regulations from the market and to identify modernity with capitalism itself. It has also engaged in an ideological project to screen alternative measurements of progress. Liberal and social democracy have been effectively disabled as grounds for weighing the costs of neoliberal predations. This volume examines the strategies through which neoliberalism has reconstituted and de-politicized liberal precepts such as universal justice, private right and a social democratic project responsive to needs. As such it will appeal to scholars and students of sociology and social and critical theory, political and social philosophy, politics, cultural studies and feminist thought.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1 Critique as ideology critique in a neoliberal age
Critique as ideology critique
Market justice and social justice: drawing the battle lines
The battle between political rationalities
Ideology critique in a neoliberal age
Concluding remarks
References
Chapter 2 Sociology and critique
Peter Wagner: sociology as a political project
Axel Honneth: sociology’s contribution to critical theory
Agnes Heller: sociology as critique in the neoliberal universities
References
Chapter 3 The dialectic of critique and progress: Comparing Peter Wagner and Theodor Adorno
Peter Wagner: progress reconstructed
Theodor Adorno: progress in the age of catastrophe
The dialectics of progress and critique: challenges to Eurocentric social theory
Conclusion: a critical humanist reconstruction of ‘progress’?
References
Chapter 4 The embedded market and ideology critique
The ‘embedded economy’ as critique
Capitalism’s new spirit
Fictitious commodities and ideology critique
Conclusion: reflections on Axel Honneth’s Polanyi
References
Chapter 5 Common cause? The political rationalities of populism and neoliberalism
Populism: a politically flexible mode of mobilization?
Fever warning or democracy’s inner enemy?
A revival of the political?
Conclusion
References
Chapter 6 De-politicizing needs: Therapy culture and the ‘happiness turn’
Obstacles for normatively grounded critique
Eva Illouz: immanent critique
Therapy culture and ideology critique
Conclusion
References
Chapter 7 The rationality potentials of intimacy: In search of a critical pulse
Normative continuities
Normative discontinuities
Negotiating a field of tensions: insights drawn from Hegel
Conclusion
References
Chapter 8 The critic’s role: Debating Nancy Fraser’s feminism
Feminism as critique
‘Gender justice’ and the neoliberal offensive
Struggling with neoliberal ‘resignifications’
Conclusion
References
Chapter 9 Learning from the Budapest School women: The politics of need interpretation
Feminism without revolution?
Feminism as radical need
Feminism and the politicization of needs
Women and success
Conclusion: a cast of feminist characters
References
Chapter 10 Conclusion
References
Index