Critical Theory : A Very Short Introduction
Stephen Eric. Bronner
Bok Engelsk 2011 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Oxford : : Oxford University Press, USA, , 2011.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (145 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Contents; List of illustrations; Introduction: what is critical theory?; 1 The Frankfurt School; 2 A matter of method; 3 Alienation and reification; 4 Enlightened illusions; 5 The utopian laboratory; 6 The happy consciousness; 7 The great refusal; 8 From resignation to renewal; Further reading; Index. - Critical Theory emerged in the 1920s from the work of the Frankfurt School, the circle of German-Jewish academics who sought to diagnose-and, if at all possible, cure-the ills of society, particularly fascism and capitalism. In this book, Stephen Eric Bronner provides sketches of leading representatives of the critical tradition (such as George Lukacs and Ernst Bloch, Theodor Adorno and Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse and Jurgen Habermas) as well as many of its seminal texts and empirical investigations. This Very Short Introduction sheds light on the cluster of concepts and themes that set c
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| ISBN | 9780199730070
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