Author : Max Horkheimer
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 35,20 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804736336
This celebrated work is the keystone of the thought of the Frankfurt School. It is a wide-ranging philosophical and psychological critique of the Western categories of reason and nature, from Homer to Nietzsche.
Author : Yvonne Sherratt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 26,98 MB
Release : 2002-10-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1139434586
This book offers an interpretation of the work of Theodor Adorno. In contrast to the conventional view that Adorno's is in essence a critical philosophy, Yvonne Sherratt traces systematically a utopian thesis that pervades all the major aspects of Adorno's thought. She places Adorno's work in the context of German Idealist and later Marxist and Freudian traditions, and then analyses his key works to show how the aesthetic, epistemological, psychological, historical and sociological thought interconnect to form a utopian image. The book will be eagerly sought out by students and specialists in philosophy, social and political theory, intellectual history, literary theory and cultural studies.
Author : Patrick J. Deneen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 13,61 MB
Release : 2003-04-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 146164500X
This path-breaking and eloquent analysis of The Odyssey, and the way it has been interpreted by political philosophers throughout the centuries, has dramatic implications for the current state of political thought. This important book offers readers original insights into The Odyssey and it provides a new understanding of the classic works of Plato, Rousseau, Vico, Horkheimer, and Adorno. Through his analysis Patrick J. Deneen requires readers to rethink the issues that are truly at the heart of our contemporary 'Culture Wars,' and he encourages us to reassess our assumptions about the Western canon's virtues or viciousness. Deneen's penetrating exploration of Odysseus's and our own enduring battles between the dual temptations of homecoming and exploration, patriotism and cosmopolitanism, and relativism and universality provides an original perspective on contentious debates at the center of modern political theory and philosophy.
Author : Max Horkheimer
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 21,14 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Antisemitism
ISBN :
A major study of modern culture, Dialectic of Enlightenment for many years led an underground existence among the homeless Left of the German Federal Republic until its definitive publication in West Germany in 1969. Originally composed by its two distinguished authors during their Californian exile in 1944, the book can stand as a monument of classic German progressive social theory in the twentieth century.>
Author : Todd Hedrick
Publisher :
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 39,68 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0190634022
This book defends Hegel's concept of "reconciliation" as the best understanding of human beings' emancipatory interest and presents "reification" as a systematic blockage to its realization. Drawing upon psychoanalysis and legal theory, it explores the extent to which recent theories (Rawls, Honneth, Habermas) succeed in spelling out how society could be organized in such a way that reconciliation between individual and society could be realized on something approaching a universal basis.
Author : R. Goodman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 46,73 MB
Release : 2010-09-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0230112951
Feminist Theory in Pursuit of the Public argues that feminism needs to develop a theory of the public. It responds to a moment when feminism's impetus to reconstitute the private sphere left a huge gap in its political thinking on the public. This inattention to the public is particularly worrisome now when the nation-state and its publics seem to have diminishing power and compromised democratic agency. The waning of power in the public sphere diminishes the influence that citizens can have in deciding on the conditions of life, and therefore minimizes the changes that feminists can envision or enact in the social field to work towards equality, access, deliberation, participation, just distribution, rights, and authority for women.
Author : Christopher Rocco
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,65 MB
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0520331362
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1997.
Author : Alan Swingewood
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 49,2 MB
Release : 1998-08-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1349268305
This book presents a critical analysis of the relation between sociological theory and recent debates in cultural studies. A distinctive sociological perspective is developed based on the work of Marx, Weber, Bourdieu and Bakhtin. The book examines the problems of theorising issues such as modernity, mass culture and postmodernity by advocating a historical and context-based approach.
Author : Seth Rudy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 38,23 MB
Release : 2014-10-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137411546
Literature and Encyclopedism in Enlightenment Britain tells the story of long-term aspirations to comprehend, record, and disseminate complete knowledge of the world. It draws on a wide range of literary and non-literary works from the early modern era and British Enlightenment.
Author : Matthew Sharpe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 31,35 MB
Release : 2014-12-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1317492943
"Understanding Psychoanalysis" presents a broad introduction to the key concepts and developments in psychoanalysis and its impact on modern thought. Charting pivotal moments in the theorization and reception of psychoanalysis, the book provides a comprehensive account of the concerns and development of Freud's work, as well as his most prominent successors, Melanie Klein and Jacques Lacan.The work of these leading psychoanalytic theorists has greatly influenced thinking across other disciplines, notably feminism, film studies, poststructuralism, social and cultural theory, the philosophy of science and the emerging discipline of neuropsychoanalysis. Analysing this engagement with other disciplines and their key theorists, "Understanding Psychoanalysis" argues for a reconsideration of psychoanalysis as a resource for philosophy, science, and cultural studies.
