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Critical theory, politics, and society : an introduction / Peter M.R. Stirk.

By: Stirk, Peter M. R, 1954-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London ; New York : Pinter, 2000Description: ix, 246 p. ; 24 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 1855675587 ; 1855675595 .Subject(s): Frankfurt school of sociology | Critical theory | Political sociologyDDC classification: 301
Contents:
Introduction -- The Frankfurt school -- A preliminary outline of critical theory -- The failure of metaphysics -- The critique of positivism -- The attractions and limits of psychology -- The analysis of bourgeois society -- Paradoxes of reason -- The contours of critical theory -- The authoritarian and the demographic state -- Morality and interests -- Individual and collective identity -- Conclusion.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

An introduction to the critical theory of the Frankfurt School, providing an assessment of thinkers such as Pollock, Marcuse, Horkheimer, Adorno, Neumann, Lowenthal, Fromm, Kirchheimer and Habermas, and the political and intellectual context in which they worked.

Bibliography: (pages 232-241) and index.

Introduction -- The Frankfurt school -- A preliminary outline of critical theory -- The failure of metaphysics -- The critique of positivism -- The attractions and limits of psychology -- The analysis of bourgeois society -- Paradoxes of reason -- The contours of critical theory -- The authoritarian and the demographic state -- Morality and interests -- Individual and collective identity -- Conclusion.

CIT Module SOCI 6005 - Supplementary reading

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Peter Stirk is a lecturer in Politics at the University of Durham. His previous books include Max Horkheimer: A New Interpretation (1992) and, as co-editor, An Introduction to Political Ideas (Pinter, 1995).