Critical Theory and Society - A Reader (Paperback, New)

Contents:
Editors Introduction
Part I: The Institute for Social Research and Its Original Programme
1. The State of Social Philosophy and the Tasks of an Institute of Social Research, Max Horkheimer 2. Psychoanalysis and Sociology, Erich Fromm 3. On the Sociology of Literature, Leo Lowenthal 4. Notes on Science and the Crisis, Max Horkheimer 5. Philosophy and Critical Theory, Hebert Marcuse
Part II: Fragments of a Theory of Society
6. The Jews and Europe, Max Horkheimer 7. State Capitalism: Its Possibilities and Limitations, Frederick Pollock 8. From Ontology to Technology: Fundamental Tendencies of Industrial Society, Herbert Marcuse 9. The Culture Industry Reconsidered, T.W. Adorno 10. The Public Sphere, Jurgen Habermas
Part III: Cultural Criticism and the Critique of Mass Culture
11. The Mass Ornament, Siegfried Kracauer 12. Lyric Poetry and Society, T.W. Adorno 13. Surrealism: "The Last Snapshot of European Intelligentsia", Walter Benjamin 14. Historical Perspectives on Popular Culture, Leo Lowenthal 15. Perennial Fashion, T.W. Adorno
Part IV: Critical Theory and Psychology^HN
16. Politics and Psychoanalysis, Erich Fromm 17. Introduction to The Authoritarian Personality, T.W. Adorno 18. The Obsolescence of the Freudian Concept of Man, Herbert Marcuse 19. The Crisis of Psychoanalysis, Erich Fromm
Part V: Critical Visions
20. Theses on the Philosophy of History, Walter Benjamin 21. Notes on the Institute Activities, Max Horkheimer 22. Society, T.W. Adorno 23. Liberation from the Affluent Society, Herbert Marcuse 24. The Reification of the Proletariat, Herbert Marcuse 25. The Tasks of a Critical Theory of Society, Jurgen Habermas

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 1989
First published:	1989
Editors:	Stephen Eric Bronner • Douglas Mackay Kellner
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	326
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-90041-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Marxism & Communism Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > General Promotions
LSN:	0-415-90041-7
Barcode:	9780415900416

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