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The vitality of critical theory /

The common theme of this volume is that the critical theory of the Frankfurt School is as important today, if not more so, as it was at its inception during the 1930s. It looks at the distinguishing features of this tradition and how it is critical, yet also complementary, of other approaches in the...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dahms, Harry F.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bingley UK : Emerald, 2011.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Current perspectives in social theory ; v. 28.
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  • ch. 1. The early Frankfurt school critique of capitalism : critical theory between Pollock's 'state capitalism' and the critique of instrumental reason
  • ch. 2. Theory in Weberian Marxism : patterns of critical social theory in Lukács and Habermas
  • ch. 3. Beyond the carousel of reification : critical social theory after Lukács, Adorno, and Habermas
  • ch. 4. Globalization or hyper-alienation? : critiques of traditional Marxism as arguments for basic income
  • ch. 5. Does alienation have a future? : recapturing the core of critical theory
  • ch. 6. How social science is impossible without critical theory : the immersion of mainstream approaches in time and space.