Social critique and the aesthetic of cognitive mapping

Juan Pablo Rodríguez

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-32108-6_3

Social critique and the aesthetic of cognitive mapping

Juan Pablo Rodríguez^*

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School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies

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By exploring the relationship between Fredric Jameson’s notion of an aesthetics of cognitive mapping and Luc Boltanski’s critical sociology, this chapter discusses the status and modalities of ‘social totality’ in critical theory. By examining the possibilities of holding an emancipatory notion of social totality, Rodríguez shows that the very notion of social critique presupposes the idea of social totality and that a non-reductionist version of social totality is urgently required to aid critical theorists and social movements in approaching the complex realities of contemporary global capitalism and locating their practices in relation to both broader social structures and individuals’ experience.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Resisting Neoliberal Capitalism in Chile
Subtitle of host publication	The Possibility of Social Critique
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Pages	55-81
Number of pages	27
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-32108-6
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-32107-9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32108-6_3
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 19 Dec 2019

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Name	Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
ISSN (Print)	2524-7123
ISSN (Electronic)	2524-7131

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