ISBN:
9780192679079
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (357 pages)
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DDC:
142
Keywords:
Critical theory
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Frankfurt school of sociology
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Political science-Philosophy
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Electronic books
Abstract:
This book offers the first systematic treatment of the idea of a critical theory of world society. Malte Frøslee Ibsen develops a reconstruction of the Frankfurt School tradition as four paradigms of critical theory, in original interpretations of the work of notable theorists.
Abstract:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- 0.1 A Bourgeoning World Society -- 0.2 The Contradictions of Critical Theory -- 0.3 The Idea of a Critical Theory -- 0.3.1 The Historical Dimension -- 0.3.2 The Sociological Dimension -- 0.3.3 The Normative Dimension -- 0.3.4 The Practical Criterion of Validity -- 0.4 An Outline of the Book -- Part I HORKHEIMER -- 1 Max Horkheimer and the Original Paradigm of Critical Theory -- 1.1 Stages in the Project of a Critical Theory of Society -- 1.1.1 Materialism and Ideologiekritik -- 1.1.2 Traditional Theory and Critical Theory -- 1.2 Marx, Lukács, and the Materialist Philosophy of History -- 1.2.1 Historical Materialism -- 1.2.2 Lukács and the Theory of Reification -- 1.2.3 Lukács's Theory of Class Consciousness -- 1.2.4 Class Consciousness as an Empirical Problem -- 1.3 Structural Transformations in Capitalism and Class Consciousness -- 1.3.1 Monopoly Capitalism -- 1.3.2 Freudo-Marxism and the Rise of Fascism -- 1.4 Critical Theory and Bourgeois Morality -- 1.4.1 A Reasonable Society -- 1.4.2 A Critical Theory of Justice -- 2 Horkheimer's Original Paradigm and the Idea of a Critical Theory of World Society -- 2.1 `Existing capitalist society, which has spread all over the world from Europe and for which the theory is declared valid' -- 2.1.1 Colonialism, Empire, and the Trappings of Historical Materialism -- 2.1.2 Pluralism, Political Economy, and the Rise of Right-Wing Populism -- 2.1.3 Emancipation, Ecology, and the Mastery of Nature -- 2.2 Horkheimer in Exile -- Part II ADORNO -- 3 Theodor W. Adorno and the Negativist Paradigm of Critical Theory -- 3.1 Reflections from a Damaged Life -- 3.1.1 Philosophy as Interpretation -- 3.1.2 Negative Dialektik -- 3.2 The Dialectic of Enlightenment -- 3.2.1 Enlightenment Reverts to Mythology.
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