A Critical Theory of Global Justice

The Frankfurt School and World Society
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-0-19-286412-3
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 384 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 740 g

The idea of a critical theory is famous across the world, yet it is today rarely practised as originally conceived by the Frankfurt School. The waning influence of critical theory in the contemporary academy may be due to its lack of engagement with global problems and the postcolonial condition. This book offers the first systematic treatment of the idea of a critical theory of world society, advancing the conversation between critical theory and postcolonial and
ecological thought. Malte Frøslee Ibsen develops a reconstruction of the Frankfurt School tradition as four paradigms of critical theory, in original interpretations of the work of Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno, Jürgen Habermas, and Axel Honneth, and considers how the global context has featured in
their work and what might be salvaged for a critical theory of contemporary world society. Along the way, Ibsen advances new interpretations of the relationship between critical theory and justice, the idea of communicative freedom, and three conceptions of power in the Frankfurt School tradition. He further offers extended discussions of two emerging paradigms in the work of Amy Allen and Rainer Forst and argues that a critical theory of world society must combine and integrate a Kantian
constructivist approach in a critique of global injustice, as Forst defends, with the reflexive check of a self-problematizing critique of its blind spots and taken-for-granted assumptions regarding the postcolonial condition, as defended by Allen. Finally, Ibsen rethinks the relationship between society
and nature in critical theory, with far-reaching normative and methodological implications.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ibsen, Malte Frøslee

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Globalisierung, Transformationsprozesse
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Über Autor(innen)

Malte Frøslee Ibsen is a postdoctoral fellow at the Cluster of Excellence 'Contestations of the Liberal Script (SCRIPTS)' at Freie Universität Berlin. He is a political theorist working on critical theory, global justice, democracy and globalization, populism, climate justice, and justice in finance. He studied political theory at the University of Oxford and Goethe Universität Frankfurt, where he wrote his dissertation under the supervision of Rainer
Forst and Axel Honneth, and has previously held a postdoctoral position at the University of Copenhagen.