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Critical theory [electronic resource] : a very short introduction / Stephen Eric Bronner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bronner, Stephen Eric, 1949-
- Series:
- Very short introductions.
- Very short introductions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Critical theory.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (130 p.) : ill.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Summary:
- In this volume, Stephen Eric Bronner provides sketches of famous and less famous representatives of the critical tradition (such as George Lukacs and Ernst Bloch, Theodor Adorno and Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse and Jurgen Habermas) as well as many of its seminal texts and empirical investigations.
- Contents:
- Introduction : what is critical theory?
- The frankfurt school
- A matter of method
- Alienation and reification
- Enlightened illusions
- Utopia and its discontents
- The happy consciousness
- The great refusal
- From resignation to renewal.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-983056-8
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