Marxist Modernism - Introductory Lectures on Frankfurt School Critical Theory

Marxist Modernism is a comprehensive yet concise and conversational introduction to the Frankfurt School. It is also a new resource from one of the twentieth century’s most important philosophers: Gillian Rose.

Her 1979 lectures on the Frankfurt School explore the lives and philosophies of a range of the school’s members and affiliates, including Adorno, Lukács, Brecht, Bloch, Benjamin, and Horkheimer, and outline the way each theorist developed Marx’s theory of commodity fetishism into a Marxist theory of culture.

Edited by Robert Lucas Scott and James Gordon Finlayson

About the author

Gillian Rose (1947-1995) was one of the twentieth century’s most important philosophers and social theorists. She was a lecturer in sociology at the University of Sussex, and then chair of Social and Political Thought at the University of Warwick. She is the author of works such as Hegel Contra Sociology (1981), The Broken Middle: Out of Our Ancient Society (1992), and her memoir Love’s Work: A Reckoning with Life (1995).

Product details

• Authors: James Gordon Finlayson, Martin Jay, Gillian Rose, Robert Lucas Scott
• Assisted by: James Gordon Finlayson (Editor), Finlayson James Gordon (Editor), Robert Lucas Scott (Editor), Martin Jay (Afterword)
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.08.2024
• EAN: 9781804290118
• ISBN: 978-1-80429-011-8
• No. of pages: 176
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory, Critical Theory, Western philosophy from c 1800, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Marxism & Communism, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -