Bücher der Reihe Essex Studies in Contemporary Critical Theory

This is the first English-language translation of an important book that contributes to contemporary debates about social suffering in sociology, social psychology, political theory and philosophy. Renault provides a systematic account of the ways in which social suffering could be conceptualised.

Offering an alternative outlook on contemporary (practical) philosophy, this highly original book provides a conceptual history of responsibility within philosophy, including a critical analysis of the relation between philosophy and its social and political contexts.

This book provides an overview of recent debates about critical theory from Pierre Bourdieu via Luc Boltanski to the Frankfurt School. Robin Celikates investigates the relevance of the self-understanding of ordinary agents and of their practices of critique for the theoretical and emancipatory project of critical theory.

Engagements with Axel Honneth. Bringing together leading scholars in contemporary social and political philosophy, this volume takes up the central themes of Axel Honneths work as a starting point for debating the present and future of critical theory, as a form of socially grounded philosophy for analyzing and critiquing society today.

This original book offers a systematic overview of contemporary accounts of social critique in critical theory and beyond.

This book explores the many facets of naturalism in social philosophy, investigating the consequences of concepts such as second nature and forms of life. It analyses the ways in which social action, gender, work and morality are embodied and surveys the conceptions of nature at play in social criticism.