Volume 17 (2020), Edition 2

Based on a qualitative study, this article discusses the psychotherapeutic practice of interpreting and “translating” patients’ suffering, presenting it as a practice of “biographization.” The associated psychotherapeutic concept of the...

To the present day, the social understanding of architecture is shaped by narratives in which the integrity of architects and their work is asserted. This article argues that the ideological function of this model of interpretation becomes apparent...

This article reconstructs the sociocultural genesis of the “meat paradox. ” By this is meant the historical transformations that turned meat consumption into an affectively ambivalent practice that requires justification and thus is no longer...

Despite a broad pluralism of methodological approaches, the different methods of qualitative social research are based on the assumption that social reality must be explored from the perspectives of social actors. The issue on "Actors of Critique"...

Critical Theory is committed to tying theory to practice and thus to anchoring theory in pre-theoretical experience, oppositional forms of consciousness and theorization, as well as practices of critique and resistance – while at the same time...

This article discusses the significance of the actor’s perspective in the context of empirical social research from the point of view of gender studies. It sheds light on the question of partiality, on the one hand, and the structure of the...

Whereas postcolonial-feminist anthropologists have been interrogating the colonial paradigms, methodologies and methods of fieldwork and ethnography in general for decades and have engaged with questions of methodological decolonization, related...

The paper argues for rethinking the social ontology of critical social research from the perspective of interdependence theory. On the one hand, this perspective decenters the categorical divisions between researcher/research subjects,...

Axel Honneth belongs among a group of Frankfurt critical theorists now worried that its wide-ranging critical theory of society has being jettisoned in favor of a narrow liberal political-theoretical concern with “legalism.” Though Honneth...

The following contribution attempts, in the form of a brief rejoinder to objections raised by William Scheuerman, to at least hint at solutions for three intricate and intertwined problems of a critical theory of society: in a first step, it will...

Smart orders are characterized by their use of technologies which ensure that a norm will be obeyed in a concrete case. Their aim is to avoid mistakes. The technology is based on collecting and analyzing behavioral data through which future behavior...

With her book The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality, Katharina Pistor presents, in the reviewer’s view, nothing less than a “crisis theory of law.” Adam Tooze is impressed by Pistor’s analysis, which reveals how law,...