Critical Theory: A Very Short Introduction
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Offers a new and striking reinterpretation of critical theory Explores the contributions of a gamut of well-known representatives of the critical tradition, including Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and Jurgen Habermas Pr...
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- ISBN13 9780199730070
- ISBN10 0199730075
- Tipo LIBRO
- Páginas 130
- Colección Very Short Introductions #263
- Año de Edición 2011
- Idioma Inglés
- Encuadernación Paperback
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Crítica Literaria InglesaCritical Theory: A Very Short Introduction
Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Offers a new and striking reinterpretation of critical theory Explores the contributions of a gamut of well-known representatives of the critical tradition, including Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and Jurgen Habermas Pr...
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- Offers a new and striking reinterpretation of critical theory
- Explores the contributions of a gamut of well-known representatives of the critical tradition, including Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and Jurgen Habermas
- Presents a fresh, controversial interpretation of Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno's seminal Dialectic of Enlightenment
Though they shared a Marxist bent, the Frankfurt School's scholars came from a variety of fields—philosophy, economics, psychoanalysis, and even music—and they initially sought not only to do interdisciplinary work but also to combine theory with practice, criticism with empirical data. Forced by the rise of Hitler to flee to the United States, by the late 1930s the Frankfurt School left behind the emphasis on empiricism, beginning instead to specialize in philosophical inquiry into the nature of social control, which combined the work of Hegel, Marx, Freud, and Nietzsche.
This VSI is ultimately organized around the cluster of concepts and themes that set critical theory apart from its more traditional philosophical competitors. Bronner explains and discusses concepts such as method and agency, alienation and reification, the culture industry and repressive tolerance, non-identity and utopia. He argues for the introduction of new categories and perspectives for illuminating the obstacles to progressive change and focusing upon hidden transformative possibilities. Only a critique of critical theory can render it salient for a new age. That is precisely what this very short introduction seeks to provide.