The Crisis Paradigm Description and Prescription in Social and Polit
“In an extremely well-timed work, Gilbert critically explores the notion of crisis in political and social theory. This thoughtful scrutiny is an important contribution to the human sciences – not only reminding us of the crucial reflexive demands of our
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The Crisis Paradigm
Andrew Simon Gilbert
The Crisis Paradigm Description and Prescription in Social and Political Theory
Andrew Simon Gilbert Department of Social Inquiry La Trobe University Bundoora, VIC, Australia
ISBN 978-3-030-11059-8 ISBN 978-3-030-11060-4 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11060-4
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Preface
This book is an examination of the idea of “crisis” in the work of four twentieth century thinkers. Crisis is a term that has become almost ubiquitous in contemporary language. Reading newspapers and online news, it is not unusual to be inundated with reports of a bewildering variety of different crises unfolding in today’s world. Yet behind the clear dramatic effect of the word, there is a great deal of ambiguity about what crisis actually means. Several questions can be posed: What is a crisis? What does a crisis entail? How is it deployed? Why has it become so prevalent? Like much of the burgeoning literature on crisis being published today, this book emerged out of the aftermath of the “Global Financial Crisis” of late last decade. There were two determining factors in my decision to take up crisis as a Ph.D. project. The first was the advice of my academic supervisor, Peter Beilharz, who suggested it to me as a possible project after I watched him deliver a public lecture on the topic. The second was my history of involvement in socialist politics, and the effect that “the crisis” had on my p
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