دانلود کتاب Of Critical Theory and Its Theorists

No project holds a more prominent place in the development of modern European thought than the critical theory. Usually associated with various members of the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research of the 1920s and 1930s, critical theory has been enormously influential and quite controversial in its manifold claims.

Filled with original insights and valuable historical narratives, "Of Critical Theory and Its Theorists" provides unique interpretations and covers the work of major philosphical thinkers of the critical theory, and who are its most important representatives, such as: Georg Lukacs, Walter Benjamin, Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Erich Fromm, Jürgen Habermas, and revisits the contributions of lesser-known figures such as Karl Korsch and Ernst Bloch.

Bronner measures the writing of these theorists against each other, postmodernist philosophers and the critical tradition reaching back to Hegel.

Inspired by the interdisciplinary character of the original enterprise, Stephen Bronner ranges across many fields, from philosophy and aesthetics to politics and anthropology, reconstructing the radical aims of critical theory, and evaluating its success, its failings and its legacy.

This book offers a panoramic view of an exciting tradition, and a bold new perspective, from one of America's most prominent analysts of continental politics and philosophy, and presents new insights useful to experienced scholars and offers clear summaries for students making this book an ideal introduction to the debates surrounding one of the most important intellectual traditions of the 20th Century.

Of Critical Theory and its Theorists is an intelligent, accessible overview of the entire Critical Theory Tradition, written by one of the leading experts on the subject.

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About the Author:

Stephen Eric Bronner is Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University. He serves on the editorial boards of the journals New Politics and New Political Science. He is the author or editor of fifteen books, including Moments of Decision (Routledge, 1992), which won APSA's Michael Harrington Book Award.

His most recent works are Socialism Unbound and Moments of Decision: Political History and the Crises of Radicalism. He has also edited The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg and co-edited, with Douglas Kellner, the collection Critical Theory and Society.