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1 online resource |
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Studies in critical social sciences ; Volume 61 |
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Studies in critical social sciences ; v. 61.
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Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Overview -- What is critical practice? -- Voltaire : setting the role of public intellectual -- Schiller : reform consciousness to change the world -- Foucault : the end of evasion -- Jean Baudrillard : critical practice as core extraction -- Eagleton : literary critic : literature or criticism? -- Hayden White : historic truth as story telling -- Liberation : project, method, object -- Appendix: technical note -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
Questioning the resistance to change of the West in constant crisis, and framed by early writings of Max Horkheimer and others, John E. O'Brien's historical-materialist method explores the contested perspectives of Voltaire, Schiller, Baudrillard, Foucault, Eagleton and Hayden White |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Voltaire, 1694-1778 -- Political and social views
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Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984 -- Political and social views
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Eagleton, Terry, 1943- -- Political and social views
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Schiller, Friedrich, 1759-1805 -- Political and social views
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White, Hayden V., 1928-2018 -- Political and social views
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Baudrillard, Jean, 1929-2007 -- Political and social views
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Baudrillard, Jean, 1929-2007 |
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Eagleton, Terry, 1943- |
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Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984 |
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Schiller, Friedrich, 1759-1805 |
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Voltaire, 1694-1778 |
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White, Hayden V., 1928-2018 |
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Critical theory.
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critical theories (dialectical critiques)
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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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Political and social views
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
900426065X |
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9789004260658 |
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