Subject and Object

. Ed(s): Groff, Ruth

ISBN 10: 1441137289 / ISBN 13: 9781441137289

Published by Continuum Publishing Corporation, 2014

About this Item

Editor(s): Groff, Ruth. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 667. . 2014. Hardback. . . . .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Subject and Object
• Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1441137289
• ISBN 13: 9781441137289
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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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.

About the Author

Ruth Groff writes about the ontology of causal powers and about the metaphysical infrastructure of social, political and moral thought. She teaches at Saint Louis University, USA. Her most recent book is Ontology Revisited: Metaphysics in Social and Political Philosophy. She is co-editor (with John Greco) of Powers and Capacities in Philosophy: The New Aristotelianism. Her next planned book, A Critical Introduction to Causal Powers and Dispositions, will be published by Bloomsbury.