Ludovisi - Critical Theory and the Challenge of Praxis: Beyond Reification

CRITICAL THEORY AND THE CHALLENGE OF PRAXIS

Beyond Reification

Edited by
STEFANO GIACCHETTI LUDOVISI
Loyola University Chicago, Rome Center, Italy

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Critical theory and the challenge of praxis : beyond reification / [edited] by Stefano Giacchetti Ludovisi.

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ISBN 978-1-4724-4773-9 (hardcover) -- ISBN 978-1-3155-7511-7 (ebook) -- ISBN 978-1-3171-5699-4 (epub) 1. Critical theory. 2. Social sciences--Philosophy. 3. Political science--Philosophy. I. Ludovisi, Stefano Giacchetti, 1969

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Stefano Giacchetti Ludovisi

Deborah Cook

Stefano Petrucciani

Stefano Giacchetti Ludovisi

James Gordon Finlayson

Idit Dobbs-Weinstein

Karin Stgner

Roco Zambrana

Andrew Feenberg

Robert Fine

Alessandro Ferrara

Marcos Nobre

David Ingram

Samir Gandesha

Massimo Canevacci

Massimo Canevacci is Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Digital Arts and Culture at the University of Rome La Sapienza. He is currently Visiting Professor at the Institute of Advanced Study of the University So Paulo (IEA-USP). His books include: SincretiKa. Exploraes etnogrficas sobre artes contemporneas (Studio Nobel, 2013, translated in English by Sean Kingston Publ. and already published in Italian), The Line of Dust. The Bororo Culture between Tradition, Mutation and Self-representation (Canon Pyon, Sean Kingston Publ., 2013, published in Italian and Portuguese), and Digital Auratic Reproducibility, in An Ethnography of Global Landscapes (ed. L. Naidoo, InTech, 2012).

Deborah Cook is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Windsor, Canada. Her books include: Adorno on Nature (Acumen, 2011), Adorno, Habermas, and the Search for a Rational Society (Routledge, 2004), The Culture Industry Revisited: Theodor Adorno on Mass Culture (Rowman and Littlefield, 1996), and The Turn towards Subjectivity: Michel Foucaults Legacy (Peter Lang, 1993). She also edited Theodor Adorno: Key Concepts (Acumen, 2008). Currently, she is writing a book that compares the critical theories of Adorno and Foucault.

Idit Dobbs-Weinstein is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt University. Her books include: Maimonides and St. Tomas on the limits of Reason (SUNY Press, 1995), Maimonides and His Heritage (SUNY Press, 2009, edited with Lenn Goodman and James Grady), and Spinozas Critique of Religion and Its Heirs: Marx, Benjamin, Adorno (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).

Andrew Feenberg is Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Technology in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University, where he directs the Applied Communication and Technology Lab. He also serves as Directeur de Progamme at the College International de Philosophie in Paris. His books include: Questioning Technology and Heidegger and Marcuse: The Catastrophe and Redemption of History (Routledge, 1999 and 2005) Between Reason and Experience: Essays in Technology and Modernity (MIT Press, 2010), a co-edited collection entitled Community in the Digital Age (Rowman and Littlefield, 2004), a co-edited collection entitled The Essential Marcuse (Beacon Press, 2007) and another co-edited volume entitled (Re)Inventing the Internet (Sense Publishers, 2012). His most recent book is The Philosophy of Praxis: Marx, Lukcs and the Frankfurt School (Verso Press, 2014).

Alessandro Ferrara is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and former president of the Italian Association of Political Philosophy. His books include: Reflective Authenticity: Rethinking the Project of Modernity (Routledge, 1998), Justice and Judgment: The Rise and the Prospect of the Judgment Model in Contemporary Political Philosophy (Sage, 1999), and The Force of the Example: Explorations in the Paradigm of Judgment (Columbia University Press, 2008). Recently he has published The Democratic Horizon: Hyperpluralism and the Renewal of Political Liberalism (Cambridge University Press, 2014).

Robert Fine is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK. His books include: Of Cosmopolitanism (Routledge, 2007), Political Investigations: Hegel, Marx, Arendt (Routledge 2001), Being Stalked (Chatto and Windus, 1997), Labour and Liberation in South Africa (Pluto, 1990), and Democracy and the Rule of Law: Marxs Critique of the Legal Form (Pluto, 1985 and Blackburn, 2002). Recently he co-edited a special issue of European Societies on Racism, antisemitism and Islamophobia (2012) and a special issue of Journal of Classical Sociology on Natural law and social theory (2013). He is currently co-authoring a monograph on Cosmopolitanism and Antisemitism (Bloomsbury, 2015).

James Gordon Finlayson lectures in philosophy at the University of Sussex, where he is also Director of the Centre for Social and Political Thought. He is author of Habermas: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2005), and co-author and editor of Habermas and Rawls: Disputing the Political (Routledge, 2010), and has written many articles on Adornos Critical Theory, in places such as the European Journal of Philosophy, Telos, Harvard Theological Review and The Oxford Handbook to Continental Philosophy. He is currently writing a monograph on Immanent Critique, and a book on Adornos life and work, with Henry Pickford, for the Critical Lives series.

Samir Gandesha is Associate Professor of Modern European Thought and Culture in the Department of Humanities and Director of the Institute for the Humanities at Simon Fraser University. He is co-editor with Lars Rensmann of