From Kant to Lévi-Strauss : the background to contemporary critical theory / edited by Jon Simmons.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Simmons, Jon.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Critical theory--History.
• Sociology--Philosophy.
• Social sciences--Philosophy.
• Philosophy and social sciences--History.
• Philosophy and social sciences.
• History.
• Critical theory.

Physical Description:

x, 256 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2002]

Summary:

• This introductory textbook provides students and other readers with an accessible basic guide to key figures in 'The Tradition of Critique' -- critical post-Enlightenment European thinking.
• The intellectual tradition covered by the book is broadly the Continental philosophy and theory which has had a significant impact on many theoretical innovations in the humanities and social sciences. Yet many students and non-philosophers have little understanding of the tradition on which such thinking draws. The book therefore covers those thinkers whose work serves as the background for many contemporary theorists such as Derrida, Foucault and Habermas. Each chapter offers some contextualisation, presents and explains key concepts, explains the thinker's relevance to an ongoing tradition and offers suggestions for further reading. The volume provides readers with sufficient background knowledge to study more contemporary theorists whose work draws on, or assumes knowledge of, these earlier or more foundational thinkers. Thus the book is aimed specifically at students and scholars who do not have a philosophical training and who study literary, cultural, social or political theorists who engage with this European intellectual tradition.

Contents:

• 2 Immanuel Kant / Jon Simons 17
• 3 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel / Matt F. Connell 33
• 4 Karl Marx / Simon Tormey 50
• 5 Friedrich Nietzsche / Jon Simons 65
• 6 Max Weber / John Ellis, Jon Simons 81
• 7 Sigmund Freud / Richard H. King 97
• 8 Georg Lukacs / Stuart Sim 113
• 9 Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer / Matt F. Connell 129
• 10 Edmund Husserl / William Hutson 146
• 11 Martin Heidegger / David Woods 163
• 12 Hans-Georg Gadamer / Nicholas H. Smith 181
• 13 Ludwig Wittgenstein / Simon Tormey 197
• 14 Hannah Arendt / Richard H. King 213
• 15 Claude Levi-Strauss / Christopher Johnson 228.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0748615067

OCLC:

51516711