Critical Theory : a Very Short Introduction.

Critical Theory : a Very Short Introduction.

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Author / Creator:Bronner, Stephen Eric.
Imprint:Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA, 2011.
Description:1 online resource (145 pages).
Language:English
Series:Very Short Introductions
Very short introductions.
Subject:
Critical theory.
Philosophy.
Social sciences.
Critical theory.
Philosophy.
Social sciences.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12518561
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ISBN:9780199830565
0199830568
9780199730070
0199730075
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-121) and index.
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Summary:Critical Theory emerged in the 1920s from the work of the Frankfurt School, the circle of German-Jewish academics who sought to diagnose-and, if at all possible, cure-the ills of society, particularly fascism and capitalism. In this book, Stephen Eric Bronner provides sketches of leading representatives of the critical tradition (such as George Lukacs and Ernst Bloch, Theodor Adorno and Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse and Jurgen Habermas) as well as many of its seminal texts and empirical investigations. This Very Short Introduction sheds light on the cluster of concepts and themes that set c.
Other form:Print version: Bronner, Stephen Eric. Critical Theory : A Very Short Introduction. Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA, ©2011 9780199730070
Standard no.:99943003740

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