Robert J. Antonio
University of Kansas
56 Papers
278 Citations
Robert J. Antonio is an academic researcher from University of Kansas. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social theory & Democracy. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 54 publications.
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Papers
Immanent critique as the core of critical theory: its origins and developments in Hegel, Marx and contemporary thought*
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explain the intellectual and historical basis of critical theory, a term with vague and imprecise meaning for sociologists, and their development as the central mode of critical theoretic analysis.
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The Unbearable Lightness of Politics: Climate Change Denial and Political Polarization
TL;DR: Newly elected Republican Senator Paul states succinctly the conservative view of U.S. cooperation with international efforts to stem global warming: "It's anti-American and anti-freedom" as mentioned in this paper.
After Postmodernism: Reactionary Tribalism1
TL;DR: The authors links reactionary tribalism to a recurrent 20th-century theoretical tendency, the "total critique of modernity" (TWC), a fusion of oversimplified Nietzschean and Weberian ideas, which counters the "historicist" method of "internal critique" and the "communication model" characteristic of reflexive social theory.
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A New Global Capitalism? From "Americanism and Fordism" to "Americanization-Globalization"
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the development of the discourse on Fordism and post-Fordism and its transition into a broader rubric about globalization, and analyze dimensions of neoliberal globalization.
The Normative Foundations of Emancipatory Theory: Evolutionary Versus Pragmatic Perspectives
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explain the significance of Habermasian theory for the emancipatory tradition, analyzes certain problems of the theory, and argues that an expanded dialogue with American pragmatism would strengthen both its sociological and its normative dimensions.