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Critical theory : a very short introduction / Stephen Eric Bronner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bronner, Stephen Eric, 1949- author.
- Series:
- Very short introductions.
- Very short introductions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Critical theory.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 2nd edition.
- Place of Publication:
- [Oxford] : Oxford University Press, 2017.
- 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:
- Preface
- Introduction: what is critical theory?
- The frankfurt school
- A matter of method
- Critical theory and modernism
- Alienation and reification
- Enlightened illusions
- The utopian laboratory
- The happy consciousness
- The great refusal
- From resignation to renewal
- Unfinished tasks
- Further reading
- Index.
- Notes:
- This edition previously issued in print: 2017.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 16, 2017).
- ISBN:
- 9780190692698
- 0190692693
- 9780190692681
- 0190692685
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