Introducing Critical Theory: a Graphic Guide
Offers a route through the tangled jungle of competing ideas and provides an essential historical context, situating these theories within tradition of critical analysis going back to the rise of Marxism. This book presents the essential methods and objectives of each theoretical school.
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- Full title :Introducing Critical Theory : a Graphic Guide.
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Offers a route through the tangled jungle of competing ideas and provides an essential historical context, situating these theories within tradition of critical analysis going back to the rise of Marxism. This book presents the essential methods and objectives of each theoretical school.
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- Publication Date:2009.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Icon Books Ltd
- Place of Publication:Duxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2009.
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Cultural Materialism.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (228 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781848317802, 1848317808
- oclc:on1066190660
- LC Classification:HM585
- Dewey Decimal:301.01
Table of Contents
Intro; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; The Theory of Everything; The Grand Narrative of Marxism; The Politics of Criticism; The Synthetic or Magpie Approach; Bringing Theory to the Surface; Hidden Agendas and Ideologies; Theoretical Reflexivity; Science Studies: the Paradigm Model; Postmodernism and Science; The Sokal Scandal; In Defence of Big Science; Origins of Marxism; Absolute Spirit: the Logic of History; The Communist Manifesto; Infra- and Super-structures; Economic Determinism; The Hidden Text; Mapping the Origins of Critical Theory; Reflection Theory; Zhdanovite Socialist Realism.
The Battle for Class ConsciousnessLukácsian Theories of the Novel; A Critical Realist View of Alienation; The Theory of Hegemony; Cultural Criticism; The Frankfurt School's Critical Theory; The Progress of Irrationalism; One-dimensional or "Non-oppositional" Society; The Alternative or "New Left"; The Politics of Avant-garde Art; Against Totality -- and Totalitarianism; Theory of the Aura; In Combat with Tradition; Brecht's Epic Theatre; Russian Formalism; The Grammar of Narrative; Shklovsky's Defamiliarization; Bakhtin's Plural or Dialogic Meanings; Intertextuality or Heteroglossia.
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