Subject and object : Frankfurt School writings on epistemology, ontology, and method / edited By Ruth Groff.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Groff, Ruth, 1963- editor of compilation.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Institut für Sozialforschung (Frankfurt am Main, Germany).

Critical theory.

Frankfurt school of sociology.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Ontology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (400 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Subject & Object is a thematic collection of classic works by Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, and Herbert Marcuse, designed to foreground the authors' philosophical concerns, especially in the areas of epistemology, ontology, and method. The volume, which includes lucid introductions to all of the selections, illustrates Frankfurt School approaches to questions such as the nature of reason; the limits of empiricism, pragmatism and Kantian transcendental idealism; the case for materialism; the difficulty of thinking counterfactually; and the ideological character of mainstream social science. Many of the pieces in the volume are otherwise out of print. Subject & Object will be a resource for social, political, and cultural theorists who may be less familiar with the philosophical aspects of the Frankfurt School, for analytic philosophers who may not have had previous exposure to their work at all, and for anyone wanting access to these seminal texts."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Introduction ; Preface

Epistemology : 1. Horkheimer, Means and Ends ; 2. Marcuse, Industrialization and Capitalism in the Work of Max Weber ; 3. Horkheimer, On the Problem of Truth ; 4. Marcuse, A Note on Dialectic ; 5. Adorno, Negative Dialectics selections

Ontology : 6. Marcuse, The Concept of Essence ; 7. Adorno, Subject and Object ; 8. Adorno, Negative Dialectics selections

Method : 9. Horkheimer, Traditional and Critical Theory & Postscript ; 10. Horkheimer, The Latest Attack on Metaphysics ; 11. Marcuse, Philosophy and Critical Theory

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781623566418

162356641X

9781623565312

1623565316

9781501302244

1501302248

OCLC:

906113860