| Description |
xxxii, 340 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Studies in contemporary German social thought |
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Studies in contemporary German social thought.
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| Contents |
The incapacity for social analysis : Aporias of critical theory -- Horkheimer's original idea : the sociological deficit of critical theory -- The turn to the philosophy of history in the Dialectic of enlightenment : a critique of the domination of nature -- Adorno's theory of society : the definitive repression of the social -- The rediscovery of the social : Foucault and Habermas -- Foucault's historical analysis of discourse : the paradoxes of a semiological approach to the history of knowledge -- From the analysis of discourse to the theory of power : struggle as the paradigm of the social -- Foucault's theory of society : a systems-theoretic dissolution of the Dialectic of enlightenment -- Habermas' anthropology of knowledge : the theory of knowledge-constitutive interests -- Two competing models of the history of the species : understanding as the paradigm of the social -- Habermas' theory of society : a transformation of the Dialectic of enlightenment in light of the theory of communication |
| Analysis |
Sociology Philosophy |
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Sociology Philosophy |
| Notes |
Translation of: Kritik der Macht |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [305]-334) and index |
| Notes |
Translation of: Kritik der Macht. Reflexionsstufen einer kritischen Gesellschaftstheorie |
| Subject |
Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.
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Habermas, Jürgen.
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Horkheimer, Max, 1895-1973. Philosophische Fragmente.
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Horkheimer, Max, 1895-1973.
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| SUBJECT |
Critical theory. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84709838
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| Subject |
Critical theory.
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| LC no. |
91006950 |
| ISBN |
0262082020 |
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