| Description |
vii, 316 pages |
| Contents |
Introduction / Stephen Eric Bronner and Douglas MacKay Kellner -- The state of contemporary social philosophy and the tasks of an institute for social research / Max Horkheimer -- Psychoanalysis and sociology / Erich Fromm -- On sociology of literature / Leo Lowenthal -- Notes on science and the crisis / Max Horkheimer -- Philosophy and critical theory / Herbert Marcuse -- The Jews and Europe / Max Horkheimer -- State capitalism : its possibilities and limitations / Frederick Pollock -- From ontology to technology : fundamental tendencies of industrial society / Herbert Marcuse -- The culture industry reconsidered / Theodor W. Adorno -- The public sphere : an encyclopedia article / Jürgen Habermas -- The mass ornament / Siegfried Kracauer -- Lyric poetry and society / Theodor W. Adorno |
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Surrealism : the last snapshot of the European intelligentsia / Walter Benjamin -- Historical perspectives on popular culture / Leo Lowenthal -- Perennial fashion : jazz / Theodor W. Adorno -- Politics and psychoanalysis / Erich Fromm -- Introduction to The authoritarian personality / Theodor W. Adorno ... [et al.] -- The obsolescence of the Freudian concept of man / Herbert Marcuse -- The crisis of psychoanalysis / Erich Fromm -- Theses on the philosophy of history / Walter Benjamin -- Notes on institute activities / Max Horkheimer -- Society / Theodor W. Adorno -- Liberation from the affluent society / Herbert Marcuse -- The reification of the proletariat / Herbert Marcuse -- The tasks of a critical theory of society / Jürgen Habermas |
| Summary |
A collection of seminal essays, many appearing in English for the first time, which provides an excellent overview of the critical theory developed by the Frankfurt School |
| Analysis |
Sociology Critical theory |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Critical theory.
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Frankfurt school of sociology.
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| Author |
Bronner, Stephen Eric, 1949-
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Kellner, Douglas, 1943-
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| LC no. |
89010558 |
| ISBN |
0415900417 |
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