With his insightful and wide-ranging theory of recognition, Axel Honneth has decisively reshaped the Frankfurt School tradition of critical social theory. Combining insights from philosophy, sociology, psychology, history, political economy, and cultural critique, Honneth s work…
Critical theory and methodology
by Brown, David D, Morrow, Raymond Allen
fromContemporary social theory
David Held presents a much-needed introduction to, and evaluation of, critical theory. Some of the major themes he considers are critical theory's relation to Marx's critique of political economy, Freudian psychoanalysis, aesthetics and the philosophy of history. There is also a…
From the beginning to the end of his career, the critical theorist and Frankfurt School philosopher Theodor W. Adorno sustained an uneasy but enduring bond with existentialism. His attitude overall was that of unsparing criticism, often verging on polemic. In Kierkegaard he saw …
La escuela de Fráncfort
by E-libro, Corp, Wiggershaus, Rolf
fromSección de obras de filosofía
The essential Frankfurt school reader
"This book provides an intellectual biography of Max Horkheimer during the early and middle phases of his life and analyzes his model of early Critical Theory." "This book is the first comprehensive intellectual biography of Max Horkheimer during the early and middle phases of …