Critical Turns in Critical Theory : New Directions in Social and Political Thought (Hardcover)

TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword: Karl-Otto Apel Introduction Seamus O Tuama & Ger Mullally A Theory of Cognitive Frames for Critical Sociology Piet Strydom An Ethic of Responsibility: Some Critical Reflections Catherine Brennan The Reconstruction of Sociological Learning Theory: Cognitive Sociology, Normativity and Discursivity Pat O'Mahony Rational Action, Communicative Action and the Narrative Structure of Social Life: The Social Embeddedness of Discourse and Markets Klaus Eder The Significance of Global Ethics for Critical Social Theory Gerard Delanty Rational Actors and Paradigm Warriors: Revisiting and Gendering Social Movement Theories Louise Ryan Linking Knowledge, Communication and Social Learning: Crical Theory's Immanent Critique of Capitalism's Administrative State Tracey Skillington Rights, Recognition and Contingency: Opening a Discussion on a Right to have Rights Seamus O Tuama Modelling 'Triple Contingency' Loet Leydesdorff Environmental Responsibility and the Public Sphere in Latin America Jose Mauricio Domingues and Andrea Coutinho Pontual Sustainable Development and Responsible Governance in Ireland: Communication in the Shadow of Hierarchy? Gerard Mullally The Calling of a New Critical Theory: Self-Development, Inclusion of the Other and Planetary Realizations Ananta Kumar Giri Index