Contemporary Critical Theory and Latin America

Alexis Gros is Senior Lecturer in Sociological Theory at Friedrich Schiller University Jena.Agustín L. Prestifilippo is Senior Lecturer in Sociological Theory at the University of Buenos Aires and Researcher at Argentina’s National Scientific and Technical Research Council.Santiago M. Roggerone is Senior Lecturer in Sociological Theory at the University of Buenos Aires and Researcher at Argentina’s National Scientific and Technical Research Council.

• Foreword Introduction: A Relation of Unrelatedness? Critical Theory and Latin America (Alexis Gros, Agustín L. Prestifilippo, and Santiago M. Roggerone) PART I – Critical Theory Today: Challenges and Legacies 1. One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Postcolonialism and the West (Axel Honneth) 2. Frankfurt School Critical Theory in a Reparative Frame (Gurminder K. Bhambra) 3. Provincializing Frankfurt: Critical Theory in Lowercase (Daniel Loick) 4. From Socialization to Social Research: Felix Weil, Karl Korsch, and the Political Origins of the Frankfurt School (Jacob Blumenfeld) 5. “Whoever Is Not Willing to Talk About Capitalism...” Critical Theory and the Contemporary Surge of Authoritarianism (Malte Frøslee Ibsen) PART II – Doing Critical Theory in (and from) Latin America 6. Critical Theory and Counter-Modernity: On How a Historical Singularity Becomes a Critical Dialectic for “Our America” (Eduardo Grüner) 7. Conceptual Elements for a Critical Theory from the Americas: Towards a Philosophical Discussion between Mexico and Germany (Stefan Gandler) 8. Bifurcations of Critical Theory: Reception and Remaking in Ibero-American Contexts of Crisis (Mauro Basaure) 9. The New Organisation: Digital Culture Industry and Platform Neofascism (Bruna Della Torre) 10. The Intercommunication System: A Conceptual Alternative for Critical Theory (Esteban Torres) PART III – Critical Theory and the Multiple Crises of the Present 11. New Authoritarianism as Counterrevolution (Verónica Gago) 12. Codes and Corpses: Reading Female Bodies in the Context of Mexican Femicide (Stephanie Graf) 13. Affirmative Rather than Critical: How AI Is Changing the Democratic Public Sphere and What This Means for Critical Theory (Regina Kreide) 14. Habermas’s Political Theory from the Abyss of Democracies (Ezequiel Ipar) 15. Decolonizing Critical Theory: An Interview with Amy Allen (Alexis Gros, Agustín L. Prestifilippo, Santiago M. Roggerone, and Amy Allen) Index