The Cambridge Companion to Critical Theory

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ISBN: 9780521816601 | 0521816602
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 9/27/2004

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Distinguished international contributors examine the major figures in Critical Theory, including Adorno, Benjamin, and Habermas, as well as lesser known but important thinkers. They survey the shared philosophical concerns that have given impetus to Critical Theory throughout its history, and reveal the diversity among its proponents that contributes so much to its richness as a philosophical school.

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Introduction Fred Rush
1. Conceptual foundations of early Critical Theory Fred Rush
2. Benjamin, Adorno, and the decline of the aura Michael Rosen
3. The dialectic of enlightenment Julian Roberts
4. The marriage of Marx and Freud: Critical Theory and psychoanalysis Joel Whitebook
5. Dialectics and the revolutionary impulse Raymond Geuss
6. 'The dead speaking of stones and stars': an introduction to Adorno's Aesthetic Theory J. M. Bernstein
7. Critique, state, and economy Moishe Postone
8. The transcendental turn: Habermas's 'Kantian pragmatism' Kenneth Baynes
9. The politics of Critical Theory Simone Chambers
10. Critical Theory and the analysis of contemporary mass society Hauke Brunkhorst
11. Critical Theory and poststructuralism: Habermas and Foucault Beatrice Hanssen
12. The very idea of critical social science Stephen White
13. A social pathology of reason: on the intellectual legacy of Critical Theory Axel Honneth.

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