A collection of seminal essays, many appearing in English for the first time, which provides an excellent overview of the critical theory developed by the Frankfurt School.
Critical Theory and Society: A Reader
β Scribed by Stephen Eric Bronner; Douglas Kellner
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Year
- 1989
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 327
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
A collection of seminal essays, many appearing in English for the first time, which provides an excellent overview of the critical theory developed by the Frankfurt School.
β¦ Table of Contents
Introduction / Stephen Eric Bronner and Douglas MacKay Kellner --
The state of contemporary social philosophy and the tasks of an institute for social research / Max Horkheimer --
Psychoanalysis and sociology / Erich Fromm --
On sociology of literature / Leo Lowenthal --
Notes on science and the crisis / Max Horkheimer --
Philosophy and critical theory / Herbert Marcuse --
The Jews and Europe / Max Horkheimer --
State capitalism : its possibilities and limitations / Frederick Pollock --
From ontology to technology : fundamental tendencies of industrial society / Herbert Marcuse --
The culture industry reconsidered / Theodor W. Adorno --
The public sphere : an encyclopedia article / JuΜrgen Habermas --
The mass ornament / Siegfried Kracauer --
Lyric poetry and society / Theodor W. Adorno. Surrealism : the last snapshot of the European intelligentsia / Walter Benjamin --
Historical perspectives on popular culture / Leo Lowenthal --
Perennial fashion : jazz / Theodor W. Adorno --
Politics and psychoanalysis / Erich Fromm --
Introduction to The authoritarian personality / Theodor W. Adorno [and others] --
The obsolescence of the Freudian concept of man / Herbert Marcuse --
The crisis of psychoanalysis / Erich Fromm --
Theses on the philosophy of history / Walter Benjamin --
Notes on institute activities / Max Horkheimer --
Society / Theodor W. Adorno --
Liberation from the affluent society / Herbert Marcuse --
The reification of the proletariat / Herbert Marcuse --
The tasks of a critical theory of society / JuΜrgen Habermas
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