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The Domestication of Critical Theory (Paperback)
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The Domestication of Critical Theory (Paperback)
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Critical theory was one of the most vigorous and insightful
intellectual traditions of the twentieth-century. At its core was a
critique of culture and consciousness tied to instrumental
rationality and capitalist economic life. Yet, Michael J. Thompson
argues in this highly original book that this once critical
tradition has been domesticated - it no longer offers a
philosophically convincing nor politically viable form of social
critique. Thompson demonstrates that critical theory has
surrendered its concerns with domination, alienation, and the
pathologies of capitalist modernity and shifted its focus toward
neo-Idealist themes. This new critical theory has turned its back
on the insights of the classical critical theorists. Thompson
traces how this shift occurred and how we can reclaim critique in
an age of conformism, apathy, and depoliticization. He goes on to
defend the different aspects of critical theory that can be used to
reformulate social critique, one that must be brought into a
dialogue with contemporary political, social and moral philosophy
that protects the lasting and crucial legacy of critical theory as
an emancipatory political project.
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