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TELOS 151 (Summer 2010)
China: Critical Theory, Market Society, and Culture

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Telos 151 (Summer 2010), a special issue on China, edited Russell A. Berman and Ban Wang, is now available for purchase. Click here to order. Read Berman and Wang's introduction here.

Telos turns its attention to China and a set of diverse encounters between Critical Theory and contemporary Chinese society and culture. How does the Chinese experience shed a new light on the questions that have been at the core of Critical Theory for decades: bureaucracy and domination, innovation and particularity, capitalism and its metamorphoses, reification and democracy, art and emancipation. The essays collected in this issue of Telos try to explore these questions from the Critical-Theoretical tradition in relation to the Chinese present, which in turn puts pressure on Critical Theory to recalibrate its inherited metrics. Since the work of Lukács, Adorno, and Benjamin, the western Marxist tradition has involved systematic reflection on capitalism and culture: to continue that project today demands reflection on China.

Russell A. Berman serves currently as editor of Telos, having been involved with the journal for many years. His interests include German Studies, U.S.-European relations, Critical Theory, culture, politics, and literature. He is the Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University as well as a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution.

Ban Wang is a Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature at Stanford. In addition to his research on Chinese literature and culture, he has written on English and French literatures, psychoanalysis, international politics, and cinema. He taught at Beijing Foreign Studies University, SUNY-Stony Brook, Harvard, and Rutgers before joining the Stanford faculty.