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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Mixed feelings about this book. As others have noted way too much jargon. But then again, the jargon comes from the theory itself, and the author does explain most of it—although not necessarily when he firsts introduces a term. The author also seems way too much a fan of these thinkers and their utopian ideologies, although again, he is rational enough to be willing to criticize their ideas (& their misuse by his academic colleagues), even harshly. Overall worth a read, but you need to know a good bit of philosophy to get any value from it. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Critical Theory emerged in the 1920s from the work of the Frankfurt School, the circle of German-Jewish academics who sought to diagnose-and, if at all possible, cure-the ills of society, particularly fascism and capitalism. In this book, Stephen Eric Bronner provides sketches of leading representatives of the critical tradition (such as George Lukacs and Ernst Bloch, Theodor Adorno and Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse and Jurgen Habermas) as well as many of its seminal texts and empirical investigations. This Very Short Introduction sheds light on the cluster of concepts and themes that set critical theory apart from its more traditional philosophical competitors. Bronner explains and discusses concepts such as method and agency, alienation and reification, the culture industry and repressive tolerance, non-identity and utopia. He argues for the introduction of new categories and perspectives for illuminating the obstacles to progressive change and focusing upon hidden transformative possibilities. Only a critique of critical theory can render it salient for a new age. That is precisely what this very short introduction provides. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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That said, I liked this introduction. I think I find Bronner's flavor of Crit much more... sane... than I was prepared for having had less than... enlightened... encounters with a handful of people who loudly declare themselves a practitioner of this or that critical theory. And to be honest, on Bronner's take, I'm something like a crit-theorist-lite. So maybe his is a minority take? I don't know.
With another 10 or 15 pages (overall) devoted to terminology, this would have been 4 stars for me. ( )