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  1. Discursive Democracy: Politics, Policy, and Political Science.John S. Dryzek - 1990 - Cambridge University Press.
    In this book, John Dryzek criticizes the dominance of instrumental rationality and objectivism in political institutions and public policy and in the practice of political science. He argues that the reliance on these kinds of politics and to technocracies of expert cultures that are not only repressive, but surprisingly ill-equipped for dealing with complex social problems. Drawing on critical theory, he outlines an alternative program for the organization of political institutions advocating a form of communicatively rational democracy, which he terms (...)
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  • Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge.Jean-François Lyotard - 1984 - Univ of Minnesota Press.
    In this book it explores science and technology, makes connections between these epistemic, cultural, and political trends, and develops profound insights into the nature of our postmodernity.
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  • Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics.Ernesto Laclau (ed.) - 1985 - Verso.
    In this hugely influential book, Laclau and Mouffe examine the workings of hegemony and contemporary social struggles, and their significance for democratic theory. With the emergence of new social and political identities, and the frequent attacks on Left theory for its essentialist underpinnings, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy remains as relevant as ever, positing a much-needed antidote against ‘Third Way’ attempts to overcome the antagonism between Left and Right.
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  • The Political Forms of Modern Society: Bureaucracy, Democracy, Totalitarianism.Claude Lefort - 1986 - MIT Press.
    Claude Lefort is one of the leading social and political theorists in France today. This anthology of his most important work published over the last four decades makes his writing widely accessible to an English-speaking audience for the first time. With exceptional skill Lefort combines the analysis of contemporary political events with a sensitivity to the history of political thought. His critical account of the development of bureaucracy and totalitarianism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe is a timely contribution (...)
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  • How individualistic is methodological individualism?G. B. Madison - 1990 - Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 4 (1-2):41-60.
    F.A.Hayek is generally considered to be a representative of what, in regard to the methodology of the human sciences, is commonly referred to as ?methodological individualism?; (MI). This paper is an attempt to determine the exact nature and significance of Hayek's own particular brand of ?individualism.?; In particular, it attempts to show that Hayek's MI is grossly misinterpreted when it is viewed as being merely another instance of the atomistic or analytic individualism characteristic of much modern thinking. The ?true?; individualism (...)
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  • The new consensus: I. The Fukuyama thesis.Jeffrey Friedman - 1989 - Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 3 (3-4):373-410.
    Fukuyama's argument that we have recently reached ?The End of History?; is defended against writers who fail to appreciate the Hegelian meaning of Fukuyama's ?Endism,?; but is criticized for using simplistic dichotomies that evade the economic and ideological convergence of East and West. Against Fukuyama, the economic critique of socialism, revisionist scholarship on early Soviet economic history, and the history of the libertarian ideas of Rousseau, Kant, Hegel and Marx are deployed to show that history ?ended?; years ago: the creeds (...)
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  • Democracy as a spontaneous order.Gus diZerega - 1989 - Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 3 (2):206-240.
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  • The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures.Jürgen Habermas - 1987 - Polity.
    Modernity's Consciousness of Time and Its Need for Self- Reassurance In his famous introduction to the collection of his studies on the sociology of ...
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  • Postmodernism and Politics.Steven Shaviro & Jonathan Arac - 1988 - Substance 17 (1):95.
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  • The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change.David Harvey - 1992 - Wiley-Blackwell.
    In this new book, David Harvey seeks to determine what is meant by the term in its different contexts and to identify how accurate and useful it is as a description of contemporary experience.
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  • The True and Only Heaven: Progress and its Critics.Christopher Lasch - 1993 - Utopian Studies 4 (1):156-159.
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  • Postmodern philosophy?G. B. Madison - 1988 - Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 2 (2-3):166-182.
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  • The postmodern political condition.Agnes Heller - 1988 - Cambridge, UK: Polity Press in association with B. Blackwell. Edited by Ferenc Fehér.
    The debate about the nature of modernity and postmodernity has become central to intellectual culture today. In this work, two distinguished social theorists make a distinctive contribution to this continuing discussion.
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