Critical Theory and the Concept of Social Pathology Conference : The Centre for Social and Political Thought, University of Sussex, Date: September 2017 Introduction

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  • James Gordon Finlayson University of Sussex

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https://doi.org/10.20919/sspt.28.2018.82

Abstract

Introduction to the papers presented in the present edition that were first heard at the Critical Theory and the Concept of Social Pathology Conference held at the University of Sussex in September 2017.

Author Biography

James Gordon Finlayson, University of Sussex

Director of the Centre for Social and Political Thought, Reader in Philosophy (Philosophy) and Senior Lecturer in Social and Political Thought, University of Sussex.

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2019-02-21

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Finlayson, J. G. (2019) “Critical Theory and the Concept of Social Pathology Conference : The Centre for Social and Political Thought, University of Sussex, Date: September 2017 Introduction”, Studies in Social and Political Thought, 280. doi: 10.20919/sspt.28.2018.82.

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