Critical Theory: a Very Short Introduction

Name: Critical Theory: a Very Short Introduction
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ISBN: 9780199730070

ISBN-10: 0199730075

ISBN-13: 9780199730070

Edition: 2011

Authors: Stephen Eric Bronner

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In its essence, Critical Theory is Western Marxist thought with the emphasis moved from the liberation of the working class to broader issues of individual agency. 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 famous and less famous representativesof the critical tradition (such as George Lukács and Ernst Bloch, Theodor Adorno and Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse and Jurgen Habermas) as well as many of its seminal texts and empirical investigations. Though…

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List price: $7.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/1/2018
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 144
Size: 6.85" wide x 4.58" long x 0.34" tall
Weight: 0.242
Language: English