The Gender of Critical Theory: On the Experiential Grounds of Critique by Lois M

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A major new contribution to the Frankfurt School of critical theory drawing on feminist work on gender.

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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 effectivecritique of oppression. The assumption of paradigm-led inquiry that too strong a focus on lived experience has 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 experientialand theoretical perspectives. By bringing feminist work on gender to bear on Frankfurt School critical theory, it argues that, far from stymying emancipatory critique, attentiveness to the experiences ofoppressed 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 which vulnerable 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 ofcritique as theorising from experience.

Author Biography

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).

Table of Contents

Introduction1: Unmasking Power: Experience, Gender and Oppression2: Experience at the Limits of Justification3: Recognition and Progress in the Family4: The Politics of Disclosure5: Critique and the 'Merely Experienced'6: The Incompatibility of Formalism and NegativismConclusion: Theorising from Experience

Review

A meticulous and carefully argued presentation. * Choice *

Long Description

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.

Feature

Surveys the work of third and fourth generation Critical Theorists (especially its feminist thinkers) in a way that has not been done beforePresents a significant new interpretation of Critical Theory by bringing it into conversation with feminist theory (particularly the work of black and decolonial feminist theorists, feminist epistemologists, and sociologists)Presents a significant new idea of critique as theorising from experience that has implications not just for critical theory but political theory more generally

Details ISBN0198857756 Publisher Oxford University Press Year 2022 ISBN-10 0198857756 ISBN-13 9780198857754 Format Paperback Imprint Oxford University Press Place of Publication Oxford Country of Publication United Kingdom Publication Date 2022-03-10 UK Release Date 2022-03-10 NZ Release Date 2022-03-10 Subtitle On the Experiential Grounds of Critique Author Lois McNay Alternative 9780198857747 DEWEY 305.3 Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2022-06-01 Pages 284 We've got this

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