The origins of "Western Marxism"
Philosophy of Praxis examines the work of four Marxist thinkers, the early Marx and LukAcs, and the Frankfurt School philosophers Adorno and Marcuse. The book holds that fundamental philosophical problems are in reality social problems, abstractly conceived. This argument has tw…
"Feenberg's subtle and wide-ranging study of Lukacs' History and Class Consciousness reaches forward to Marcuse and the Frankfurt School and backwards into Marx's 1844 manuscripts. The book offers a whole new framework in which to grasp the history of Marxist theory, at the same…
We live in a world of technical systems, designed in accordance with technical disciplines and operated by a personnel trained in those disciplines. This is a unique form of social organization without historical precedent. It overshadows traditional democratic institutions and …
"We live in a world of technical systems designed in accordance with technical disciplines and operated by technically trained personnel--a unique social organization that largely determines our way of life. Andrew Feenberg's theory of social rationality represents both the thre…
We live in a world of technical systems, designed in accordance with technical disciplines and operated by a personnel trained in those disciplines. This is a unique form of social organization without historical precedent. It overshadows traditional democratic institutions and …