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Critical Theory and Social Pathology - The Frankfurt School Beyond Recognition (Hardcover)
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Critical Theory and Social Pathology - The Frankfurt School Beyond Recognition (Hardcover)
Series: Critical Theory and Contemporary Society
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In the neoliberal world of the twenty-first century, the
progressive academy urgently needs a vehicle for normative social
research. Critical theory once answered this call, but today its
programme is in crisis. The 'pathologies of recognition' approach,
popular among contemporary critical theorists, aids neoliberalism
rather than challenging it, in part because it is unable to grasp
the structural nature of power. To offer an alternative, this book
returns to the work of Erich Fromm and Herbert Marcuse, using it as
the basis for a revivified social theoretical foundation. As the
first generation of critical theorists knew, thought itself can be
reified, our imaginations debased, and our desires artificially
induced. We need to think beyond recognition and embrace a more
potent and aggressive form of social critique, true to the founding
spirit of the Frankfurt School. -- .
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