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Michael J. Thompson

The Domestication of Critical Theory

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Critical theory was one of the most vigorous and insightful intellectual traditions of the twentieth-century. At its core was a critique of culture and consciousness tied to instrumental rationality and capitalist economic life. Yet, Michael J. Thompson argues in this highly original book that this once critical tradition has been domesticated - it no longer offers a philosophically convincing nor politically viable form of social critique. Thompson demonstrates that critical theory has surrendered its concerns with domination, alienation, and the pathologies of capitalist modernity and shifted its focus toward neo-Idealist themes. This new c… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-78348-430-0
  • EAN: 9781783484300
  • Produktnummer: 18157567
  • Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
  • Seitenangabe: 246 S.
  • Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D1.9 cm 536 g
  • Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
  • Gewicht: 536

Über den Autor


Michael J. Thompson is Professor of Political Science at William Paterson University. He is the author of The Republican Reinvention of Radicalism, The Perversion of Subjectivity: Toward a Critical Theory of Consciousness and The Politics of Inequality (2007). His many edited volumes include The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Theory and Georg Lukács Reconsidered: Critical Essays on Politics, Philosophy, and Aesthetics (2011).

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