The Tragedy of Enlightenment

Klappentext This book conveys an overall sense of the continuities and discontinuities in the concerns of the Frankfurt School's core members over two generations. Zusammenfassung First published in 1980! this essay on the Frankfurt School deals with one of the most important threads in the story of cultural migration from Europe which began in the 1930s. The purpose of this book is to convey an overall sense of the continuities and discontinuities in the concerns of the school's core members over two generations. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Horkheimer's critical theory; 3. The critique of ideology; 4. The dialectic of enlightenment; 5. Technological rationality; 6. Language and politics; 7. Critique of critical theory; 8. Conclusion; Notes; Index.

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• Authors: Paul Connerton, Connerton Paul
• Publisher: External catalogues UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2008
• EAN: 9780521296755
• ISBN: 978-0-521-29675-5
• Series: Themes in the Social Sciences; Themes in the Social Sciences
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories