TY - BOOK AU - Stirk,Peter M.R. TI - Critical theory, politics, and society: an introduction SN - 1855675587 AV - HM467 .S75 2000 U1 - 301 21 PY - 2000/// CY - London, New York PB - Pinter KW - Frankfurt school of sociology KW - Critical theory KW - Political sociology N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-241) and index; The Frankfurt school -- A preliminary outline of critical theory -- The failure of metaphysics -- The critique of positivism -- The attractions and limits of psychology -- The analysis of bourgeois society -- Paradoxes of reason -- The contours of critical theory -- The authoritarian and the democratic state -- Morality and interests -- Individual and collective identity ER -