Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- 1 Conceptual foundations of early Critical Theory
- 2 Benjamin, Adorno, and the decline of the aura
- 3 The dialectic of enlightenment
- 4 The marriage of Marx and Freud
- 5 Dialectics and the revolutionary impulse
- 6 “The dead speaking of stones and stars”
- 7 Critique, state, and economy
- 8 The transcendental turn
- 9 The politics of Critical Theory
- 10 Critical Theory and the analysis of contemporary mass society
- 11 Critical Theory and poststructuralism
- 12 The very idea of a critical social science
- 13 A social pathology of reason
- Select bibliography
- Index
Frontmatter
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- 1 Conceptual foundations of early Critical Theory
- 2 Benjamin, Adorno, and the decline of the aura
- 3 The dialectic of enlightenment
- 4 The marriage of Marx and Freud
- 5 Dialectics and the revolutionary impulse
- 6 “The dead speaking of stones and stars”
- 7 Critique, state, and economy
- 8 The transcendental turn
- 9 The politics of Critical Theory
- 10 Critical Theory and the analysis of contemporary mass society
- 11 Critical Theory and poststructuralism
- 12 The very idea of a critical social science
- 13 A social pathology of reason
- Select bibliography
- Index
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- The Cambridge Companion to Critical Theory , pp. i - xxPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004