Philosophy of Praxis Marx, Lukï¿½cs and the Frankfurt School

Name: Philosophy of Praxis Marx, Lukï¿½cs and the Frankfurt School
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ISBN: 9781781681725

ISBN-10: 1781681724

ISBN-13: 9781781681725

Edition: 2014

Authors: Andrew Feenberg

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Philosophy of Praxis examines the work of four Marxist thinkers, the early Marx and Lukács, and the Frankfurt School philosophers Adorno and Marcuse. The book holds that fundamental philosophical problems are in reality social problems, abstractly conceived. This argument has two implications: on the one hand, philosophical problems are significant insofar as they reflect real social contradictions; on the other hand, philosophy cannot resolve the problems it identifies because only social revolution can eliminate their social causes. Feenberg’s Lukacs, Marx and the Sources of Critical Theory was an intellectual history of these discussions. Philosophy of Praxis is an update of that…

Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 8/12/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Andrew Feenberg is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Technology at the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. He is the author of Critical Theory of Technology, Alternative Modernity, Questioning Technology, Transforming Technology, and Heidegger and Marcuse.