| Description |
vi, 372 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Karl Korsch : Western Marxism and the origins of critical theory -- Philosophical anticipations : a commentary on the "Reification" essay of Georg Lukacs -- Utopian projections : in honor of Ernst Bloch -- Horkheimer's road -- Ontology and its discontents : unorthodox remarks on the philosophy of Martin Heidegger -- Reclaiming the fragments : on the Messianic materialism of Walter Benjamin -- Political aesthetics in retrospect : reflections on the expressionism debate and its contemporary relevance -- Dialectics at a standstill : a methodological inquiry into the philosophy of Theodor W. Adorno -- Fromm in America -- Remembering Marcuse -- The anthropological break : Herbert Marcuse and the radical imagination -- Left instrumentalism : a critique of analytic and rational choice Marxism -- Jürgen Habermas and the language of politics -- Points of departure : sketches for a critical theory with public aims |
| Summary |
Of Critical Theory and its Theorists is an overview of the entire Critical Theory Tradition. Filled with insights and historical narratives, the book covers the work of major philosphical thinkers such as Benjamin, Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse and Habermas and revisits the contributions of lesser-known figures such as Karl Korsch and Ernst Bloch. Bronner measures the writing of these theorists against each other, postmodernist philosophers and the critical tradition reaching back to Hegel. --From publisher's description |
| Analysis |
Philosophy |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Critical theory.
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Philosophy and social sciences.
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| LC no. |
93030889 |
| ISBN |
0631187375 (alk. paper) |
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0631187383 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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