Understanding Marxism by Boucher, Geoff

Table of Contents: “…Hegelian Marxism -- 4. The Frankfurt School -- 5. Structural Marxism -- 6. Analytical Marxism -- 7. …”
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An introduction to theories of popular culture by Strinati, Dominic

Table of Contents: “…Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Mass culture and popular culture; The Frankfurt School and the culture industry; Structuralism, semiology and popular culture; Marxism, political economy and ideology; Feminism and popular culture; Postmodernism, contemporary popular culture and recent theoretical developments; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Exploring art for perspective transformation by Kokkos, Alexis

Table of Contents: “…The distinctive nature of Learning for Change -- Cognitive theory of art -- Aristotle's poetics -- The views of John Dewey and Maxine Greene -- The perspective of Frankfurt School -- The legacy of Freire and Gramsci -- Alternative approaches -- The theoretical foundations and principles of the method -- The stages of TLAE method -- Examples of implementation -- Inferences drawn from application -- Concluding reflections.…”
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A Companion to Television. by Wasko, Janet

Table of Contents: “…Figures; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE The Development of Television Studies; CHAPTER TWO Critical Perspectives on Television from the Frankfurt School to Postmodernism; CHAPTER THREE Television and History; CHAPTER FOUR Our TV Heritage: Television, the Archive, and the Reasons for Preservation; CHAPTER FIVE Television as a Moving Aesthetic: In Search of the Ultimate Aesthetic -- The Self; CHAPTER SIX Locating the Televisual in Golden Age Television; CHAPTER SEVEN Television Production: Who Makes American TV?…”
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The cynic enlightenment : Diogenes in the salon by Shea, Louisa, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…: Sade's cynic republic -- Theory turns cynical : Diogenes after the Frankfurt school -- Cynicism and the dialectic of enlightenment -- Mystic carnival : Sloterdijk's cynic enlightenment -- Cynicism as critical vanguard : Foucault's last lecture course -- Conclusion.…”
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The cynic enlightenment : Diogenes in the salon by Shea, Louisa, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…: Sade's cynic republic -- Theory turns cynical : Diogenes after the Frankfurt school -- Cynicism and the dialectic of enlightenment -- Mystic carnival : Sloterdijk's cynic enlightenment -- Cynicism as critical vanguard : Foucault's last lecture course -- Conclusion.…”
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Public Freedom. by Villa, Dana

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Public Freedom Today; 2 Tocqueville and Civil Society; 3 Hegel, Tocqueville, and "Individualism"; 4 Tocqueville and Arendt: Public Freedom, Plurality, and the Preconditions of Liberty; 5 Maturity, Paternalism, and Democratic Education in J.S. Mill; 6 The Frankfurt School and the Public Sphere; 7 Genealogies of Total Domination: Arendt, Adorno, and Auschwitz; 8 Foucault and the Dystopian Public; 9 Arendt and Heidegger, Again; 10 The "Autonomy of the Political" Reconsidered; Notes; Index.…”
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Antonio Gramsci : beyond Marxism and postmodernism by Holub, Renate, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Part Part I INTRODUCTION -- chapter 1 Gramsci and critical theories: towards a 'differential pragmatics' -- part Part II FROM REALISM TO MODERNISM -- chapter 2 To realism farewell: Gramsci, Lukics and Marxist aesthetics -- chapter 3 The industrialization of culture: Gramsci with Benjamin, Brecht and the Frankfurt School -- chapter 4 Gramsci's theory of consciousness: between alienation, reification and Bloch's 'principle of hope' -- chapter 5 Phenomenology, linguistics, hegemony -- part Part III BEYOND THE MODERN, BEYOND THE POSTMODERN -- chapter 6 Grams & intellectual and the age of information technology -- chapter 7 In lieu of a conclusion: Gramsci, feminism, Foucault.…”
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Habermas : a very short introduction by Finlayson, James Gordon

Table of Contents: “…; Abbreviations; List of illustrations; 1 Habermas and Frankfurt School critical theory; 2 Habermas's new approach to social theory; 3 The pragmatic meaning programme; 4 The programme of social theory; 5 Habermas's theory of modernity; 6 Discourse ethics I: the discourse theory of morality; 7 Discourse ethics II: ethical discourse and the political turn; 8 Politics, democracy, and law; 9 Germany, Europe, and post-national citizenship; Appendix; Further reading; Index.…”
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Science as power : discourse and ideology in modern society by Aronowitz, Stanley

Table of Contents: “…Engels and the Return to Epistemology; 5. The Frankfurt School: Science and Technology as Ideology; 6. …”
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Powers, Agency and Form. by Groff, Ruth

Table of Contents: “…Mill: Humeanism and the Perfection of Distinctively Human Capacities; 4 Kant and the Frankfurt School: Freedom as Escape from the Transcendental Subject; 5 Agents, Powers and Events: Humeanism and the Free Will Debate; 6 Metaphysics and the Capabilities Approach: Martha Nussbaum, Political Liberalism and the Ideal of Metaphysical Neutrality; 7 Powers, Ontology and the Appeal to Spinoza; Notes…”
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Perversions of fascism by Vadolas, Antonios

Table of Contents: “…COVER; CONTENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; PREFACE; PART I FASCISM AND PERVERSION; Introduction The perverse refractions of fascism: a retrospective; CHAPTER ONE 1930s-1940s: The Frankfurt School and the Freudian left; CHAPTER TWO 1940s-1970s: The authoritarian and evil profile of fascism; CHAPTER THREE 1970s-1980s: Neo-Freudian perspectives; CHAPTER FOUR 1990s: The surfeit of fascist jouissance; Part I: Conclusion; PART II DISCOURSE; Introduction: The domination of the fascist and the Sadean master; CHAPTER FIVE Power and mastery through the Lacanian prism; CHAPTER SIX The Lacanian discourse.…”
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Understanding the Nazi Genocide Marxism After Auschwitz. by Traverso, Enzo

Table of Contents: “…On the Edge of Understanding: From the Frankfurt School to Ernest Mandel -- The Frankfurt School -- Ernest Mandel -- 4. …”
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The Dunayevskaya-Marcuse-Fromm correspondence, 1954-1978 : dialogues on Hegel, Marx, and critical theory

Table of Contents: “…The Dunayevskaya-Fromm correspondence, 1959-78: the early letters: on Fromm's Marx's concept of man and his socialist humanism symposium; dialogue on Marcuse, on existentialism, and on socialist humanism in Eastern Europe; on Hegel, Marxism, and the Frankfurt School in the period of Dunayevskaya's philosophy and revolution; the final letters: on critical theory and on Rosa Luxemburg, gender, and revolution.…”
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Anxiety, modern society, and the critical method : toward a theory and practice of critical socioanalysis by Crombez, Joel Michael

Table of Contents: “…LIST OF FIGURES -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- PART 1: FROM TRADITIONAL TO MODERN SOCIETY: THE CRITICAL METHOD OF EARLY MODERN SOCIAL THOUGHT -- Introduction -- Chapter I: Scenic Landscape I -- Traditional Life and the Totalizing Logic of Christianity -- A Revolution in Space and of the Mind -- Enlightenment and the Birth of Modernity -- Chapter II: Critical Methods -- From Philosophy to Social Theory: (Hegel, Feuerbach and) Marx's Critical Method and the Totalizing Logic of Capital -- The Individual, the Social, and the Knot: Toward the Durkheimian Symptom of Anomie -- Totalizing the Mind and Spirit: Weber and the Unholy Union of Religion and Capital -- From Psychoanalysis to Socioanalysis: Anxiety, Repression, and Talk Therapy in Freud -- Conclusion -- PART 2: TECHNOLOGY, MODERN WARS, AND THE RISE OF CONSUMER CULTURE: THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL REVISITS THE CRITICAL METHOD -- Introduction -- Chapter III: Scenic Landscape II -- The Totalizing Logic of Capital Comes of Age: The Path to Technological Embeddedness and Mass Society -- The Darker Side of Modernity: World War -- Chapter IV: Critical Methods II -- The Psychosocial Origins of the Frankfurt School -- From the Critical Method to Critical Theory and Negative Dialectics -- A Lesson for Socioanalysis: Anxiety and the Social Vicissitudes of Technology and War in Mass Society -- Conclusion -- PART 3: ANXIETY-DREAMS OF POSTHUMAN FUTURES: SORTING THROUGH THE DISCOURSES OF 21ST CENTURY LIFE -- Introduction -- Chapter V: Scenic Landscape III -- The Postmodern Rupture in Modern Society -- We Are All Cyborgs Now: Life in the Mass -- The Coming Tide: Automation, Artificial Intelligence, and Space Colonization -- Chapter VI: Critical Methods III -- Critical Socioanalysis: Setting Up -- Discourses of the Psyche and the Self: A Lacanian Framework -- The Other Side of Socioanalysis: A Guide for Talk Therapy -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.…”
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Culture control critique : allegories of reading the present by Beckman, Frida

Table of Contents: “…Cultural critique from the Frankfurt School until today -- Formalism, allegory, totality. …”
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Mediations of social life in the 21st century

Table of Contents: “…Thompson -- Bringing the critical back in : towards the resurrection of the Frankfurt school / Lauren Langman -- Action and reaction : response to Bradford / John Levi Martin -- Explaining social action revisited : a reply to John Levi Martin / John Bradford.…”
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Nietzsche and Critical Social Theory : Affirmation, Animosity, and Ambiguity

Table of Contents: “…10 Toward a Gay Social Science: A Nietzschean-Marxist Alternative to Conventional Sociological Theory -- 11 Resuscitating Sociological Theory: Nietzsche and Adorno on Error and Speculation -- 12 The Science of the Last Man: Nietzsche and the Early Frankfurt School -- 13 The Death of Truth -- Guilt, Anxiety, Dread, and Hope: Nietzschean Confessions -- Part 4: All-Too-Human: The Question of the Human Condition in Light of Nietzsche -- 14 Nietzsche's Genealogy as a Critique of Racial Narratives and the Loss of Solidarity -- 15 Nietzsche's ""Anti-Darwinism"": A Deflationary Critique…”
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A companion to television

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Janet Wasko and Eileen Meehan -- One Critical Perspectives on Television from the Frankfurt School to the Politics of Representation / Doug Kellner -- Our TV Heritage: Tracing the Logics of the Television Archive / Lynn Spigel -- Locating the Televisual in Golden Age Television / Caren Deming and Deborah V. …”
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Sartre and Adorno : the dialectics of subjectivity by Sherman, David, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Adorno's relation to the existential and phenomenologicial traditions -- Adorno and Kierkegaard -- Adorno's critique of Kierkegaard -- Adorno's kierkegaardian debt -- Adorno and Heidegger -- Adorno's critique of Heidegger -- Adorno and Heidegger are irreconcilable -- Adorno and Husserl -- Subjectivity in Sartre's existential phenomenology -- The Frankfurt School's critique of Sartre -- Adorno on Sartre -- Marcuse's critique of being and nothingness -- Sartre's relation to his precursors in the phenomenological and existential traditions -- Being -- Knowing -- Death -- Sartre's mediating subjectivity -- Sartre's decentered subject and freedom -- Being-for-others : the ego in formation -- Bad faith and the fundamental project -- Situated freedom and purified reflection -- Adorno's dialectic of subjectivity -- The (de)formation of the subject -- The dawn of the subject -- Science, morality, art -- Adorno, Sartre, anti-semitism, psychoanalysis -- Subjectivity and negative dialectics -- Freedom model -- History model -- Negative dialectics, phenomenology, and subjectivity.…”
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Analytic versus continental : arguments on the methods and value of philosophy by Chase, James, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : analytic versus continental : arguments on the methods and value of philosophy -- Frege and Husserl -- Russell versus Bergson -- Carnap versus Heidegger -- The Frankfurt School, the positivists and Popper -- Royaumont : Ryle and Hare versus French and German philosophy -- Derrida versus Searle and beyond -- Introduction to philosophical method -- Analytic philosophy and the intuition pump : the uses and abuses of thought experiments -- Reflective equilibrium : commone sense or conservatism? …”
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Essays from the edge : parerga & paralipomena by Jay, Martin, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…: reflections on a Frankfurt school lament -- Mourning a metaphor: the revolution is over -- Cultural relativism and the visual turn -- Scopic regimes of modernity revisited -- No state of grace : violence in the garden -- Visual parrhesia? …”
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Essays from the edge : parerga & paralipomena by Jay, Martin, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…: reflections on a Frankfurt school lament -- Mourning a metaphor: the revolution is over -- Cultural relativism and the visual turn -- Scopic regimes of modernity revisited -- No state of grace : violence in the garden -- Visual parrhesia? …”
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Modernity and postmodernity : knowledge, power and the self by Delanty, Gerard

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Critical theory : current state and future prospects

Table of Contents: “…Reflections on a Frankfurt School lament -- 3. Mega melancholia : Adorno's Minima moralia -- 4. …”
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The Barbarism of Reason : Max Weber and the Twilight of Enlightenment. by Horowitz, Asher

Table of Contents: “…-- Part II: Politics, Time, and Bourgeois Modernity -- 5 Max Weber and the Liberal Political Tradition -- 6 Max Weber and the Bourgeoisie -- 7 The Politics of Time: Subjectivity and Modernity in Max Weber -- Part III: The Dilemmas of Rationalization -- 8 Mannheim and the Early Frankfurt School: The Weber Reception of Rival Traditions of Critical Sociology -- 9 The Comedy of Enlightenment: Weber, Habermas, and the Critique of Reification -- 10 The World Disenchanted, and the Return of Gods and Demons -- 11 The Revenge of the Sacred: Technology and Re-enchantment -- 12 Max Weber and Post-Positivist Social Theory -- 13 Max Weber: Legitimation, Method, and the Politics of Theory -- Notes on Contributors.…”
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The Ideological Evolution of Human Resource Management : a Critical Look into HRM Research and Practices. by Itani, Sami

Table of Contents: “…Foucault Enriches the Frankfurt School Thought; 1.9. Critical Management Studies; 1.10. …”
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Beyond nature : animal liberation, Marxism, and critical theory by Maurizi, Marco, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…From the Institute for Social Research to the 'Frankfurt School' -- 3. From Nature to Animals -- 4. The Structure of Domination -- 5. …”
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Media Reception Studies. by Staiger, Janet

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Politics as radical creation : Herbert Marcuse and Hannah Arendt on political performativity by Holman, Christopher

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Social theory and education : a critique of theories of social and cultural reproduction by Morrow, Raymond Allen

Table of Contents: “…Critical Theory and Education: From the Frankfurt School to Poststructuralism -- 9. The Two Gramscis and Education: Technical Competence versus Political Consciousness -- PART 5: AGENCY AND STRUCTURE: RESISTANCE AND REPRODUCTION -- 10. …”
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Treatise on Critical Reason. by Albert, Hans, 1921-

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Against the Grain : Jewish Intellectuals in Hard Times. by Mendelsohn, Ezra

Table of Contents: “…Three Jewish Émigrés at Nuremberg; 15. The Frankfurt School and the "Jewish Question," 1940-1970; 16. …”
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Axel Honneth : With a Reply by Axel Honneth. by Petherbridge, D.

Table of Contents: “…Situating Axel Honneth in the Frankfurt School Tradition; 2. Reflective Critical Theory: A Systematic Reconstruction of Axel Honneth's Social Philosophy; 3. …”
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Open Marxism 4 : Against a Closing World. by Dinerstein, Ana Cecilia

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword by Werner Bonefeld; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Open Marxism Against a Closing World; Part I: Open marxism and critical theory; 1 Recognition and Revolution; 2 A Critical Theory of Hope: Critical Affirmations Beyond Fear; 3 Objectivity and Critical Theory: Debating Open Marxism; 4 Value-Form Theory, Open Marxism and the New Reading of Marx; 5 Is Open Marxism an Offspring of the Frankfurt School? Subversive Critique as Method; Part II: State, Capital, Crisis; 6 'Terminary' Accumulation or the Limits of Capitalism…”
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Contemporary Sociological Theory. by Adams, Bert N.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Brief Contents; Detailed Contents; Preface; A Note to Students; Chapter 1 -- Introduction to Contemporary Sociological Theory; Section I -- Twentieth-Century Functionalism and Beyond; Chapter 2 -- Twentieth-Century Functionalism Parsons and Merton; Chapter 3 -- Systems, Structuration, and Modernity: Luhmann and Giddens; Section II -- Criticism, Marxism, and Change; Chapter 4 -- Critical Theory: The Frankfurt School and Habermas; Chapter 5 -- Marxism Since 1930: Poulantzas, Althusser, Dunayevskaya, and Wright.…”
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Critical Theory and Poststructuralism : In Search of a Context. by Poster, Mark

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Twenty-first century inequality & capitalism : Piketty, Marx, and beyond

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Adorno and Theology. by Brittain, Christopher Craig

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Habermas and Theology. by Junker-Kenny, Maureen

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