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Critical Theory: The Basics brings clarity to a topic that is confusingly bandied about with various meanings today in popular and academic culture.

First defined by Max Horkheimer in the 1930s, critical theory now extends far beyond its original German context around the Frankfurt School and the emergence of Nazism. We now often speak of critical theories of race, gender, anti-colonialism, and so forth. This book introduces especially the core program of the first-generation of the Frankfurt School (including Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno, Erich Fromm, and Herbert Marcuse), and shows how this program remains crucial to understanding the problems, ideologies, and systems of the modern world, including capitalism, racism, sexism, and the enduring problems of colonialism. It explores basic questions like:

  • What is critical theory?
  • What can critical theory be? What should it be?
  • Why and how does critical theory remain vital to understanding

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    A Paperback by Martin Shuster

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      Publisher Taylor & Francis
      Published 5/27/2024
      ISBN-13 9781032061566
      978-1032061566
      ISBN-10 1032061561
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      Business, Finance & Law Economic theory and philosophy

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Critical Theory: The Basics brings clarity to a topic that is confusingly bandied about with various meanings today in popular and academic culture.

      First defined by Max Horkheimer in the 1930s, critical theory now extends far beyond its original German context around the Frankfurt School and the emergence of Nazism. We now often speak of critical theories of race, gender, anti-colonialism, and so forth. This book introduces especially the core program of the first-generation of the Frankfurt School (including Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno, Erich Fromm, and Herbert Marcuse), and shows how this program remains crucial to understanding the problems, ideologies, and systems of the modern world, including capitalism, racism, sexism, and the enduring problems of colonialism. It explores basic questions like:

      • What is critical theory?
      • What can critical theory be? What should it be?
      • Why and how does critical theory remain vital to understanding

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