Stephen Eric Bronner

Of Critical Theory and Its Theorists

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book covers the work of major philosphical thinkers such as Benjamin, Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse and Habermas and revisits the contributions of lesser known figures such as Karl Korsch and Ernst Bloch.

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First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 165mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780415932622
• ISBN-10: 0415932629
• Artikelnr.: 21811680

Autorenporträt

Stephen Bronner is Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University. He serves on the editorial boards of the journals New Politics and New Political Science. He is the author or editor of fifteen books, including Moments of Decision (Routledge, 1992), which won APSA's Michael Harrington Book Award.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: From the First Edition to the Second2. Sketching the Lineage:
The Critical Methond and the Idealist Tradition3. Karl Korsch: Western
Marxism and the Origins of Critical Theory4. Philosophical Anticipations: A
Commentary on the Reification Eassay of Georg Lukacs5. Horkheimer's Road7.
Reclaiming the Fragments: On the Messianic Materialism of Walter Benjamin8.
Political Aesthetics: Reflections on the Expressionless Debate9. Dialectics
at a Standstill: A Methodolgoical Inquiry into the Philosophy of Theodore
Adorno10. Fromm in America11. The Anthropological Break: Aesthetics and
Politics in the Work of Herbert Marcuse12. Jurgen Habermas and the Language
of Politics13. Critical Theory and Civil Society14. Points of
Departure:Sketches for a Critical Theory with Public Aims