Critical theory, Marxism, and modernity - Hardcover
In this work, Douglas Kellner brings new light to bear upon the development and contemporary implications of critical theory. The origins of critical theory, he argues, were connected to the transition from classical to state-organized capitalism. While some of the perspectives of critical theory are vital to social analysis today, in other basic respects the approach of critical theory must be updated to be able to confront the changes which have intervened in Western society over the past quarter of a century. The dialectical revision of Marxian theory carried out by the Frankfurt authors must now be applied to their own works to generate a critical interpretation of today's social world. This, Kellner argues, requires a reassessment of the previous critical theory analysis of contemporary capitalism through new perspectives which take account of developments in consumer, media, technological, cultural and other spheres of what Kellner calls "techno-capitalism".
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From its beginnings in the 1930's, the critical theory of the so-called Frankfurt School has refused to situate itself within any arbitrary or conventional academic divisions. Traversing and undermining boundaries between competing disciplines, it stresses interconnections among philosophy, economics and politics, culture and society.
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"Kellner's ambitious and useful book attempts not only to provide a conspectus of critical theory, but to carry forward what he takes to be its essential design -- to 'do' critical theory as well as to analyze it." -- Berel Lang, Philosophy and Literature
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- PublisherPolity Press
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0745604390
- ISBN 13 9780745604398
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages270
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