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1 online resource (517 pages) |
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Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Note about translation; Introduction; Part One Critical Theory: The Frankfurt School; 1 The formation of the Institute of Social Research; The Institute under Grünberg, 1923-9; The Institute and its programme under Max Horkheimer; The character of the Institute's projects; Emigration; The post-war years; 2 Class, class conflict and the development of capitalism: critical theory and political economy; Marx's political economy as the foundation for critical social theory; Reflections on early twentieth century history |
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Capitalism and the authoritarian stateRationalization: the rise of instrumental reason; Images of society and the prospects of revolutionary change; 3 The culture industry: critical theory and aesthetics; The concepts of culture and art; Affirmation and negation in 'autonomous' art; The rise of mass culture and the culture industry; The produce of the culture industry: advertising aesthetics; Examples: television, astrology and music; Examples of modern art which resist assimilation; The changing structure of ideology; Further differences among Institute members |
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4 The changing structure of the family and the individual: critical theory and psychoanalysisErich Fromm; Wilhelm Reich; Concepts of human nature; Life and death in the works of Marcuse; The individual, family and society; Adorno's essays on ego weakness and narcissism; Marcuse: the obsolescence of the Freudian concept of man?; Studies on prejudice and authoritarianism; Anti-Semitism; 5 The critique of instrumental reason: critical theory and philosophy of history; Dialectic of Enlightenment: philosophical fragments towards a philosophy of history; The idea of reconciliation |
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Enlightenment and moralityScience, social science and positivism; 6 Horkheimer's formulation of critical theory: epistemology and method 1; Hegel; Feuerbach, Marx and materialism; The structure of critical theory; The critique of ideology; Interdisciplinary research; Theory and praxis; Post-war developments; 7 Adorno's conception of negative dialectics: epistemology and method 2; Differences between Horkheimer and Adorno; The critique of philosophy: initial orientation; Hegel, Benjamin and Nietzsche; Style; Negative dialectics: non-identity thinking |
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Negative dialectics and Marx's theory of value'Meditations on metaphysics'; 8 Marcuse's notions of theory and practice: epistemology and method 3; Differences with Horkheimer and Adorno; The concept of critical theory; Stages of development; Heidegger and history; Reason and dialectics: Hegel; Foundations of historical materialism; Marxian dialectic; The integration of Freud; Nature and natural science; The nature of concepts: appearance and essence; Part Two Critical Theory: Habermas; 9 Introduction to Habermas; Continuities and discontinuities with the Frankfurt school |
| Summary |
The writings of the Frankfurt school, in particular of Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse, and Jurgen Habermas, caught the imagination of the radical movements of the 1960s and 1970s and became a key element in the Marxism of the New Left. Partly due to their rise to prominence during the political turmoil of the 1960s, the work of these critical theorists has been the subject of continuing controversy in both political and academic circles. However, their ideas are frequently misunderstood. In this major work, now available from Polity Press, David Held presents a much-needed introduc |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Habermas, Jürgen
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Horkheimer, Max, 1895-1973.
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Habermas, Jürgen fast |
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Horkheimer, Max, 1895-1973 fast |
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Frankfurt school of sociology.
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Critical theory.
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Social institutions.
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critical theories (dialectical critiques)
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social institutions.
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critical theory (sociological concept)
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
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Critical theory
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Frankfurt school of sociology
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Social institutions
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Kritische Theorie
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780745678054 |
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074567805X |
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9780745668390 |
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0745668399 |
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