UID:
almafu_9959695975302883
Format:
1 online resource (xx, 376 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-139-81684-5
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0-511-99994-1
Series Statement:
Cambridge companions to philosophy
Content:
Critical Theory constitutes one of the major intellectual traditions of the twentieth century, and is centrally important for philosophy, political theory, aesthetics and theory of art, the study of modern European literatures and music, the history of ideas, sociology, psychology, and cultural studies. In this volume an international team of distinguished contributors examines the major figures in Critical Theory, including Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse, Benjamin, and Habermas, as well as lesser known but important thinkers such as Pollock and Neumann. The volume surveys the shared philosophical concerns that have given impetus to Critical Theory throughout its history, while at the same time showing the diversity among its proponents that contributes so much to its richness as a philosophical school. The result is an illuminating overview of the entire history of Critical Theory in the twentieth century, an examination of its central conceptual concerns, and an in-depth discussion of its future prospects.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).
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Conceptual foundations of early critical theory /
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Benjamin, Adorno, and the decline of the aura /
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Dialectic of enlightenment /
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Marriage of Marx and Freud: critical theory and psychoanalysis /
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Dialectics and the revolutionary impulse /
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"The dead speaking of stones and stars": Adorno's Aesthetic theory /
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Critique, state, and economy /
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Transcendental turn: Habermas's "Kantian pragmatism" /
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Politics of critical theory /
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Critical theory and the analysis of contemporary mass society /
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Critical theory and poststructuralism: Habermas and Foucault /
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Very idea of a critical social science: a pragmatist turn /
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Social pathology of reason: on the intellectual legacy of critical theory /
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-01689-4
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-81660-2
Language:
English
