Critical Theory, 2nd Edition
A Very Short Introduction
$31.24
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
15 October 2017
Summary
Critical theory emerged in the 1920s from the work of the Frankfurt School, a 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 leading representatives of 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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780190692674 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0190692677 |
| Author: | Stephen Eric Bronner |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 15 October 2017 |
| Weight: | 136g |
| Dimensions: | 10mm x 104mm x 170mm |
| Series: | Very Short Introductions |
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Critics Review
“This is the only book of its kind: it’s a readable, yet expertly crafted, tour through the Frankfurt School, along with a forceful account of why the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory still matters a decade into the new millennium. I can’t recommend it highly enough.” –Jeffrey T. Nealon, professor of English, Penn State University; co-editor of Rethinking the Frankfurt School”The book’s forthright critique and call to transformation are a breath offresh air.“– Joan Braune, Philosophy in Review
Stephen Eric Bronner
Stephen Eric Bronner is Board of Governors Professor at Rutgers University. He is also Director of Global Relations and on the Executive Committee of the UNESCO Chair for Genocide Prevention at the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights. His writings have been translated into more than a dozen languages.
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