Critical Theories
800 Lancaster Ave.
Villanova 19085
United States
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Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE As the “Occupy X” movements spread
across the United States and resistance movements continue in the Middle East,
we recognize the pressing need for continued engagement with critical theory in
it myriad forms. Since its inception in the 1920s, critical theory has sought
to interrogate oppressive structures and imagine possibilities for human
emancipation. During the present age of global capital and neoliberal
governance, however, resistance has often appeared futile. But the economic
crises of the 21st century have reawakened the call for critique both in theory
and practice. As global political conditions radically shift and new modes of
oppression and resistance materialize, examining historical iterations of
critical theory and various contemporary critical theories appears ever more
urgent. We are accepting submissions on topics
including, but not limited to, the idea, method, and
definition of "critique"; ideology; emancipation; discourse and the
public sphere; problems and questions of modernity and Enlightenment; dialectics
and materialism; redistribution and recognition; politics and the
(im)possibility of democracy; and the relationship between critical theory and
aesthetics, deconstruction, and other forms of theory (e.g., sociology,
postcolonial theory, queer theory, feminism, and race theory). Possible figures include but are not limited
to the following: Karl Marx, Herbert Marcuse, Theodor Adorno, Walter
Benjamin, Max Horkheimer, Jürgen Habermas, Allison Jaggar, Karl-Otto Apel,
Cornelius Castoriadis, Hannah Arendt, Charles Mills, Richard Rorty, Max Weber,
Mikhail Bakhtin, Enrique Dussel, Angela Davis, Axel Honneth, Iris Marion Young,
Seyla Benhabib, Michel Foucault, Louis Althusser,
Jean Baudrillard, Paulo Friere, Pierre Bourdieu, Judith Butler, Erich Fromm,
Guy Debord, Giorgio Agamben, Jacques Rancière, Johann Löwenthal, Paul Ricoeur. We encourage submissions from faculty members, graduate
students, and independent scholars of abstracts (300-500 words) or papers
(3,000 to 4,000 words). Please format these for blind review, including a cover
sheet with name, contact details, institutional affiliation, and paper title. Please email your submissions or any questions you may have
to: [email protected]. The deadline for submission is February 1, 2012.
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