The Critique of Instrumental Reason from Weber to Habermas
Author: Darrow Schecter
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2010-05-20
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 0826487718
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Reason After Its Eclipse
Author: Martin Jay
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
Published: 2016-04-21
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 029930650X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTackles a question as old as Plato and still pressing today: What is reason, and what roles does and should it have in human endeavor? The eminent intellectual historian Martin Jay surveys Western ideas of reason, particularly in German philosophy from Kant to Habermas.
Handbook of Social Theory
Author: George Ritzer
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2003-07-26
Total Pages: 570
ISBN-13: 9780761941873
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Handbook of Social Theory presents an authoritative and panoramic critical survey of the development, achievement and prospects of social theory.
Habermas's Critical Theory of Society
Author: Jane Braaten
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1991-01-01
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780791407592
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides an understanding of the content and aims of Habermas's critical theory of society -- the theory that analyzes the causes of our cultural lack of direction, polical apathy, and the increasing complexity of modern society. The author offers a foothold on the current debates regarding the credibility and cogency of the theory. Braaten presents Habermas's defense of his critique of reason in his most recent work concerning the confrontation between postmodernists and neoconservatives, and modernists and liberal theorists. She also explores the possibility of applying Habermas's critical resources in the United States in ways that he himself may not have considered.
Perspectives on Habermas
Author: Lewis Edwin Hahn
Publisher: Open Court Publishing
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 622
ISBN-13: 9780812694277
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of essays discusses the work of Jurgen Habermas - the philosopher and exponent of the tradition known as Critical Theory. His works defend the Enlightenment ideas of rationality, humanism, and the possibilities of discourse.
The Meaning and Purpose of Leisure
Author: K. Spracklen
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2009-05-07
Total Pages: 181
ISBN-13: 0230239501
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book uses the work of Jurgen Habermas to interrogate leisure as a meaningful, theoretical concept. Drawing on examples from sport, culture and tourism, and going beyond concerns about the grand project of leisure, Spracklen argues that leisure is central to understanding wider debates about identity, postmodernity and globalization.
Critical Theory
Author: Max Horkheimer
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 1972-01-01
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 0826400833
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese essays, written in the 1930s and 1940s, represent a first selection in English from the major work of the founder of the famous Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt. Horkheimer's writings are essential to an understanding of the intellectual background of the New Left and the to much current social-philosophical thought, including the work of Herbert Marcuse. Apart from their historical significance and even from their scholarly eminence, these essays contain an immediate relevance only now becoming fully recognized.
A Companion to Adorno
Author: Peter E. Gordon
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2020-02-25
Total Pages: 690
ISBN-13: 1119146933
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA definitive contribution to scholarship on Adorno, bringing together the foremost experts in the field As one of the leading continental philosophers of the last century, and one of the pioneering members of the Frankfurt School, Theodor W. Adorno is the author of numerous influential—and at times quite radical—works on diverse topics in aesthetics, social theory, moral philosophy, and the history of modern philosophy, all of which concern the contradictions of modern society and its relation to human suffering and the human condition. Having authored substantial contributions to critical theory which contain searching critiques of the ‘culture industry’ and the ‘identity thinking’ of modern Western society, Adorno helped establish an interdisciplinary but philosophically rigorous study of culture and provided some of the most startling and revolutionary critiques of Western society to date. The Blackwell Companion to Adorno is the largest collection of essays by Adorno specialists ever gathered in a single volume. Part of the acclaimed Blackwell Companions to Philosophy series, this important contribution to the field explores Adorno’s lasting impact on many sub-fields of philosophy. Seven sections, encompassing a diverse range of topics and perspectives, explore Adorno’s intellectual foundations, his critiques of culture, his views on ethics and politics, and his analyses of history and domination. Provides new research and fresh perspectives on Adorno’s views and writings Offers an authoritative, single-volume resource for Adorno scholarship Addresses renewed interest in Adorno’s significance to contemporary questions in philosophy Presents over 40 essays written by international-recognized experts in the field A singular advancement in Adorno scholarship, the Companion to Adorno is an indispensable resource for Adorno specialists and anyone working in modern European philosophy, contemporary cultural criticism, social theory, German history, and aesthetics.
The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Theory
Author: Michael J. Thompson
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-01-20
Total Pages: 732
ISBN-13: 1137558016
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis handbook is the only major survey of critical theory from philosophical, political, sociological, psychological and historical vantage points. It emphasizes not only on the historical and philosophical roots of critical theory, but also its current themes and trends as well as future applications and directions. It addresses specific areas of interest that have forged the critical theory tradition, such as critical social psychology, aesthetics and the critique of culture, communicative action, and the critique of instrumental reason. It is intended for those interested in exploring the influential paradigm of critical theory from multiple, interdisciplinary perspectives and understanding its contribution to the humanities and the social sciences.
Technosystem
Author: Andrew Feenberg
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2017-10-02
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0674971787
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWe live in a world of technical systems designed in accordance with technical disciplines and operated by technically trained personnel—a unique social organization that largely determines our way of life. Andrew Feenberg’s theory of social rationality represents both the threats of technocratic modernity and the potential for democratic change.
