Concrete Critical Theory

Acknowledgements 1 Introduction  1  Concrete Analysis and Frankfurt School Critical Theory  2  Methodology  3  Structure the Book 2 ‘But Didn’t He Kill His Wife?’  1  The Duty to Cite  2  Countervailing Harms  3  External and Internal Approaches  4  A Duty to Speak and to Respond 3 Althusser’s Scientism  1  Definition of Althusser’s Scientism  2  Althusser’s (Mostly) Consistent Scientism: 1960–1980  3  Althusser 1982–1987: Marxist Philosophy without Marxist Science?  4  An Aleatory Materialism Consistent with Marxist Science?  5  Conclusion 4 Historical Materialism and Concrete Analysis  1  The Theoretical and Political Context for Concrete Analysis  2  Althusser’s Original Formulation of Concrete Analysis  3  Critique of Concrete Analysis  4  Reconstructing Concrete Analysis  5  Historical Materialism and Critical Theory 5 ‘Class as Concrete and Normative’   Introduction  1  Gender Theories  2  Marxian Class Theories  3  Trait/Norm Covariant Class Model 6 Separating Racist Science from Racial Science  1  Separating Science from Ideology  2  Critical Technique Defined  3  Critical Technique Applied 7 Manipulation of Consent and Deliberative Democracy  1  Deliberation from Procedural to Feasible  2  Obstacles to Deliberation  3  Overcoming Obstacles  4  Insurmountable Obstacles? 8 Cosmopolitanism and Class Erasure  1  Against a ‘Cosmopolitanism of Fear’  2  Reconstruction of Althusser’s Anti-Cosmopolitan Argument  3  Contemporary Cosmopolitanisms  4  Critique of Moral and Cultural Cosmopolitanisms Works Cited Index