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The Cambridge companion to critical theory / Critical theory edited by Fred Rush. - xx, 376 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-370) and index.

Introduction / Conceptual foundations of early critical theory / Benjamin, Adorno, and the decline of the aura / The dialectic of enlightenment / The marriage of Marx and Freud : critical theory and psychoanalysis / Dialectics and the revolutionary impulse / "The dead speaking of stones and stars" : Adorno's Aesthetic theory / Critique, state, and economy / The transcendental turn : Habermas's "Kantian pragmatism" / The politics of critical theory / Critical theory and the analysis of contemporary mass society / Critical theory and poststructuralism : Habermas and Foucault / The very idea of a critical social science : a pragmatist turn / A social pathology of reason : on the intellectual legacy of critical theory / Fred Rush -- Fred Rush -- Michael Rosen -- Julian Roberts -- Joel Whitebook -- Raymond Geuss -- J. M. Bernstein -- Moishe Postone -- Kenneth Baynes -- Simone Chambers -- Hauke Brunkhorst -- Beatrice Hanssen -- Stephen K. White -- Axel Honneth. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.

ISBN: 0521816602 9780521816601 0521016894 9780521016896

LCCN: 2005297203

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Critical theory

LC Class. No.: B809.3 / .C36 2004

Dewey Class. No.: 142