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Gender of Critical Theory

Lois McNay
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      Frankfurt School Critical Theory describes itself as an unmasking critique of power. However, it has surprisingly little to say about major structural oppressions, including gender. A distinctive feature of critique is that, in diagnosing what is wrong with the world, it ought to be guided by the experiences of oppressed groups. Yet, in practice, it tends to pay little heed to these experiences. The Gender of Critical Theory shows how these oversights andtensions stem from the preoccupation with normative foundations that has dominated Frankfurt School theory since Habermas and has given rise to a mode of paradigm-led inquiry that undermines an effective critique of oppression. The assumption of paradigm-led inquiry that too strong a focus on lived experiencehas parochializing effects on theory stands in tension with its other tenet that emancipatory critique ought to be primarily concerned with the situation of oppressed groups. To alleviate this tension, this book offers a reconfigured account of context-transcendence as the critical insight afforded not by a monist interpretative paradigm but by reasoning dialogically across experiential and theoretical perspectives. By bringing feminist work on gender to bear on Frankfurt School criticaltheory, it argues that, far from stymying emancipatory critique, attentiveness to the experiences of oppressed groups is one of its enabling conditions. Lived experience can reveal dimensions to oppression that are not necessarily visible from the external vantage point of the theorist. The ways in whichvulnerable groups respond to their circumstances may also make an invaluable contribution to the development of models of transformative social practice. Combining feminist ideas with inherent but underutilised resources in the Frankfurt School tradition, this book proposes the idea of critique as theorising from experience.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Lois McNay EAN: 9780198857747 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 580 g HEIGHT: 240 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2022-03-10 CITY: GENRE: POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Women in Politics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Methodology WIDTH: 163 cm SPINE:

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      Gender studies, gender groups, Sociology, Political science and theory

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      Lois McNay is Professor of the Theory of Politics at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Somerville College. She works on French and German critical theory and its intersections with feminist ideas of gender. Her previous books include: Foucault and Feminism (Polity 1992), Gender and Agency (Polity 2000), Against Recognition (2008) and The Misguided Search for the Political (2014).
      Frankfurt School Critical Theory describes itself as an unmasking critique of power. However, it has surprisingly little to say about major structural oppressions, including gender. A distinctive feature of critique is that, in diagnosing what is wrong with the world, it ought to be guided by the experiences of oppressed groups. Yet, in practice, it tends to pay little heed to these experiences. The Gender of Critical Theory shows how these oversights andtensions stem from the preoccupation with normative foundations that has dominated Frankfurt School theory since Habermas and has given rise to a mode of paradigm-led inquiry that undermines an effective critique of oppression. The assumption of paradigm-led inquiry that too strong a focus on lived experiencehas parochializing effects on theory stands in tension with its other tenet that emancipatory critique ought to be primarily concerned with the situation of oppressed groups. To alleviate this tension, this book offers a reconfigured account of context-transcendence as the critical insight afforded not by a monist interpretative paradigm but by reasoning dialogically across experiential and theoretical perspectives. By bringing feminist work on gender to bear on Frankfurt School criticaltheory, it argues that, far from stymying emancipatory critique, attentiveness to the experiences of oppressed groups is one of its enabling conditions. Lived experience can reveal dimensions to oppression that are not necessarily visible from the external vantage point of the theorist. The ways in whichvulnerable groups respond to their circumstances may also make an invaluable contribution to the development of models of transformative social practice. Combining feminist ideas with inherent but underutilised resources in the Frankfurt School tradition, this book proposes the idea of critique as theorising from experience.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Lois McNay EAN: 9780198857747 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 580 g HEIGHT: 240 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2022-03-10 CITY: GENRE: POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Women in Politics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Methodology WIDTH: 163 cm SPINE:

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      Gender studies, gender groups, Sociology, Political science and theory

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      Lois McNay is Professor of the Theory of Politics at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Somerville College. She works on French and German critical theory and its intersections with feminist ideas of gender. Her previous books include: Foucault and Feminism (Polity 1992), Gender and Agency (Polity 2000), Against Recognition (2008) and The Misguided Search for the Political (2014).

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