Tag: Critique

Free Download David Detmer, "Freedom As a Value: A Critique of the Ethical Theory of Jean-Paul Sartre"
English | 1988 | pages: 276 | ISBN: 0812690834, 0812690826 | PDF | 51,2 mb
This dramatic re-evaluation of Sartre’s ethical theory will establish its author as a leading American exponent of phenomenology and win many new followers for Sartre in the English-speaking world.

Free Download Critical theory and the critique of political economy : on subversion and negative reason By Bonefeld, Werner
2014 | 246 Pages | ISBN: 1441161392 | PDF | 6 MB
Subversive thought is none other than the cunning of reason when confronted with a social reality in which the poor and miserable are required to sustain the illusion of fictitious wealth. Yet, this subsidy is absolutely necessary in existing society, to prevent its implosion. The critique of political economy is a thoroughly subversive business. It rejects the appearance of economic reality as a natural thing, argues that economy has not independent existence, expounds economy as political economy, and rejects as conformist rebellion those anti-capitalist perspectives that derive their rationality from the existing conceptuality of society. Subversion focuses on human conditions. Its critical subject is society unaware of itself. This book develops Marx’s critique of political economy as negative theory of society. It does not conform to the patterns of the world and demands that society rids itself of all the muck of ages and founds itself anew.

Free Download Thijs Lijster, "Benjamin and Adorno on Art and Art Criticism: Critique of Art"
English | ISBN: 946298140X | 2017 | 368 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book brings together two of the most important figures of twentieth-century criticism, Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno, to consider a topic that was central to their thinking: the place of and reason for art in society and culture. Thijs Lijster takes us through points of agreement and disagreement between the two on such key topics as the relationship between art and historical experience, between avant-garde art and mass culture, and between the intellectual and the public. He also addresses the continuing relevance of Benjamin and Adorno to ongoing debates in contemporary aesthetics, such as the end of art, the historical meaning of art, and the role of the critic.

Free Download Nir Kedem, "A Deleuzian Critique of Queer Thought: Overcoming Sexuality "
English | ISBN: 1474441572 | 2024 | 176 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Holding queer theory to its promise to revolutionise our ways of thinking, Nir Kedem offers a forceful encounter between Deleuze’s work and contemporary queer thought to provide both critical and practical means to re-evaluate and rework key concepts and methods, especially sexuality. Kedem provides a new pragmatic approach to working with Deleuze across multiple disciplines, a rigorous demonstration of its critical and creative power, as well as extensive analysis of the relations between Deleuze and queer thought. All of which exemplify that despite – if not owing to – the unassuming role of sexuality in his thought, Deleuze proves to be queer thought’s true ally.

Free Download Anne Kaun, "Crisis and Critique: A Brief History of Media Participation in Times of Crisis"
English | 2016 | pages: 143 | ISBN: 178360736X, 1783607378 | PDF | 3,9 mb
Throughout history, innovations in media have had a profound impact on protest and dissent. But while these recent developments in social media have been the subject of intense scholarly attention, there has been little consideration of the wider historical role of media technologies in protest. Drawing on the work of key theorists such as Walter Benjamin and Raymond Williams, Crisis and Critique provides a historical analysis of media practices within the context of major economic crises.

Free Download A Critique of Orthodox Economics: An Alternative Model by H. Lydall
English | 1998 | ISBN: 0333725417 | 202 Pages | PDF | 8.4 MB
Modern neoclassical economics is a theory of general equilibrium. It is based on highly unrealistic assumptions and yields a number of false predictions.

Free Download A Commentary on Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason by Lewis White Beck
English | 1984 | ISBN: 0226040763 | 306 Pages | PDF | 37.5 MB
When this work was first published in 1960, it immediately filled a void in Kantian scholarship. It was the first study entirely devoted to Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason and by far the most substantial commentary on it ever written.

Free Download Dissecting the Holocaust: The Growing Critique of Truth and Memory, 3rd edition
by Germar Rudolf
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1591482275 | 635 Pages | True ePUB/pdf | 31 MB

Free Download Pnina Werbner, "Ecofeminism (Critique Influence Change)"
English | 2014 | pages: 360 | ISBN: 1350379883, 8185107335, 8185107335 | EPUB | 0,7 mb
In this groundbreaking work, two world-renowned scholars argue that ecological destruction and industrial catastrophes constitute a direct threat to everyday life, the maintenance of which has been made the particular responsibility of women. In both industrialized societies and the developing countries, the new wars the world is experiencing, violent ethnic chauvinisms and the malfunctioning of the economy also pose urgent questions for ecofeminists. Is there a relationship between patriarchal oppression and the destruction of nature in the name of profit and progress? How can women counter the violence inherent in these processes? Should they look to a link between the women’s movement and other social movements?

Free Download The Adventures of the Commodity: For a Critique of Value (Critical Theory and the Critique of Society) by Anselm Jappe
English | November 16, 2023 | ISBN: 1350381195 | True EPUB/PDF | 234 pages | 0.2/8.2 MB
The Adventures of the Commodity explores conceptions of a capitalist society that is ordered entirely around the exigencies of the commodity, money and labour.