Subject and Object: Frankfurt School Writings on Epistemology, Ontology, and Method - Softcover

Ruth Groff

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1441122869 ISBN 13: 9781441122865

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

Synopsis

Subject & Object is a thematic collection of classic works by Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, and Herbert Marcuse, designed to foreground the authors philosophical concerns, especially in the areas of epistemology, ontology, and method. The volume, which includes lucid introductions to all of the selections, illustrates Frankfurt School approaches to questions such as the nature of reason; the limits of empiricism, pragmatism and Kantian transcendental idealism; the case for materialism; the difficulty of thinking counterfactually; and the ideological character of mainstream social science.

Many of the pieces in the volume are otherwise out of print. Subject & Object will be a resource for social, political, and cultural theorists who may be less familiar with the philosophical aspects of the Frankfurt School, for analytic philosophers who may not have had previous exposure to their work at all, and for anyone wanting access to these seminal texts.

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About the Author

Ruth Groff writes about the metaphysical infrastructure of social, political and moral thought and of theories of agency. She teaches at Saint Louis University, USA.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1441122869
• ISBN 13: 9781441122865
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320