Introduction to Critical Theory: Horkheimer to Habermas (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Introduction to Critical Theory Presents an introduction to, and evaluation of, critical theory. This book concerns itself with the thought of the Frankfurt school - Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse and Habermas. It includes critical theory's relation to Marx's critique of the political economy, Freudian psychoanalysis, aesthetics, and the philosophy of history.
Full description- Publisher: University of California Press
- Published: 01 November 1980
- Format: Paperback 497 pages
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- Categories: Sociology & Anthropology | Sociology | Politics & Government | History Of Western Philosophy | Social & Political Philosophy
- ISBN 13: 9780520041752 ISBN 10: 0520041755
- Sales rank: 485,325
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Full description for Introduction to Critical Theory
The writings of the critical theorists caught the imagination of students and intellectuals in the 1960s and 1970s. They became a key element in the formation and self-understanding of the New Left, and have been the subject of continuing controversy. Partly because of their rise to prominence during the political turmoil of the sixties, and partly because they draw on traditions rarely studied in the Anglo-American world, the works of these authors are often misunderstood. In this book David Held provides a much-needed introduction to, and evaluation of, critical theory. He is concerned mainly with the thought of the Frankfurt school - Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse, in particular - and with Habermas, one of Europe's leading contemporary thinkers.Several of the major themes considered are critical theory's relation to Marx's critique of the political economy, Freudian psychoanalysis, aesthetics, and the philosophy of history. There is also a discussion of critical theory's substantive contribution to the analysis of capitalism, culture, the family, and the individual, as well as its contribution to epistemology and methodology. Held's book will be necessary reading for all concerned with understanding and evaluating one of the most influential intellectual movements of our time.
