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1028450
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b782820
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Alway, Joan.
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| Title & Author
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Critical theory and political possibilities : : conceptions of emancipatory politics in the works of Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse, and Habermas /\ Joan Alway.
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Westport, Conn. :: Greenwood Press,, 1995.
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Contributions in sociology,; no. 111
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1 online resource (x, 170 pages).
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0313031266
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: 9780313031267
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0313293171
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9780313293177
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-166) and index.
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| Contents
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Ch. 1. The Marxian Emancipatory Vision and the Problem of Revolutionary Agency -- Ch. 2. Departures from Traditional Marxism: Origins and Early Development of Critical Theory -- Ch. 3. Dialectic of Enlightenment: The Eclipse of the Emancipatory Vision -- Ch. 4. Horkheimer and Adorno: Despair and Possibility in a Time of Eclipse -- Ch. 5. Marxism Revisited: Marcuse's Search for a Subject -- Ch. 6. Habermas: Reconstructing Critical Theory -- Conclusion: Reconceptualizing Radical Politics.
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Alway identifies and assesses new models of emancipatory politics in the Frankfurt Schools Critical Theory. She outlines the complexities of Critical Theory, and clarifies the logical connections between assumptions that inform the critical theorists' analyses of social conditions and their views on the possibilities for radical political practice.
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Adorno, Theodor W.,1903-1969.
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Habermas, Jürgen.
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Horkheimer, Max,1895-1973.
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Marcuse, Herbert,1898-1979.
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Adorno, Theodor W.,1903-1969
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Habermas, Jürgen.
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Horkheimer, Max,1895-1973
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Marcuse, Herbert,1898-1979
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Critical theory.
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Frankfurt school of sociology.
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Critical theory.
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Frankfurt school of sociology.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Anthropology-- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Regional Studies.
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Kritische theorie.
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| Dewey Classification
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301/.01
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HM24.A49 1995eb
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71.02bcl
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