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Critical theory : the essential readings / edited by David Ingram & Julia Simon-Ingram.

Ingram, David, 1952- (Added Author). Simon-Ingram, Julia, 1961- (Added Author). Ingram, David, 1952- Critical theory and philosophy. (Added Author).

Summary:

"The arrangement of selections in Critical Theory: The Essential Readings parallels the material in Critical Theory and Philosophy, and when read in conjunction with it presents the leading ideas of the Frankfurt School in the most accessible format possible." -- Book Jacket.

Record details

ISBN: 9781557783530
Physical Description: xxxvii, 407 pages ; 23 cm.
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: [New York] : Paragon House, 1992.
Copyright: ©1991

Content descriptions

General Note:	Companion vol. to: Critical theory and philosophy / David Ingram. 1990.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-407).
Formatted Contents Note:	Philosophy and critical theory / Herbert Marcuse -- Why philosophy? / Theodor W. Adorno -- Means and Ends / Max Horkheimer -- The Concept of Enlightenment / Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer -- Society / Theodor W. Adorno -- How to look at television / Theodor W. Adorno -- Freudian theory and the pattern of fascist propaganda / Theodor W. Adorno -- The catastrophe of liberation / Herbert Marcuse -- Technology and science as 'ideology' / Jürgen Habermas -- On hedonism / Herbert Marcuse -- Materialism and morality / Max Horkheimer -- Selections from Legitimation Crisis / Jürgen Habermas -- Freedom and Freud's theory of instincts / Herbert Marcuse -- Traditional and Critical Theory / Max Horkheimer -- Knowledge and human interests : a general perspective / Jürgen Habermas -- An Alternative Way Out of the Philosophy of the Subject : Communicative Versus Subject-Centered Reason" / Jürgen Habermas -- What does a legitimation crisis mean today? legitimation problems in late capitalism / Jürgen Habermas -- The subject and power / Michel Foucault -- The Postmodern Condition : A Report on Knowledge / Jean-Francois Lyotard -- Modernity : an unfinished project / Jürgen Habermas -- What's critical about critical theory? / Nancy Fraser -- The Utopian dimension in communicative ethics / Seyla Benhabib.