Critical Theory: Selected Essays (Critical Theory Ppr) - Softcover

Horkheimer, Max

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826400833 ISBN 13: 9780826400833

Publisher: Continuum, 1975

Synopsis

These essays, written in the 1930s and 1940s, represent a first selection in English from the major work of the founder of the famous Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt. Horkheimer's writings are essential to an understanding of the intellectual background of the New Left and the to much current social-philosophical thought, including the work of Herbert Marcuse. Apart from their historical significance and even from their scholarly eminence, these essays contain an immediate relevance only now becoming fully recognized.

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Review:

"Those interested in...the philosophical groundwork of the New Left, or a nonpositivist theory of knowledge, should consult this first translation into English of Horkheimer's most trenchant essays."--Library Journal

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These essays, written in the 1930s and 1940s, represent a first selection in English from the major work of the founder of the famous institute for Social Research in Frankfurt. Horkheimer's writing are essential to an understanding of the intellectual background of the New Left and to much current social-philosophical thought, including the work of Herbert Marcuse.

About this edition

• Publisher: Continuum
• Publication date: 1975
• ISBN 10: 0826400833
• ISBN 13: 9780826400833
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 312