Critical Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Updated New Edition) [2nd ed.] 9780190692674, 9780190692681, 9780190692698, 9780190692704

Critical theory emerged in the 1920s from the work of the Frankfurt School, the circle of German-Jewish academics who so

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Table of contents :
Preface
Introduction: what is critical theory?
1 The Frankfurt School
2 A matter of method
3 Critical theory and modernism
4 Alienation and reification
5 Enlightened illusions
6 The utopian laboratory
7 The happy consciousness
8 The great refusal
9 From resignation to renewal
10 Unfinished tasks: solidarity, resistance, and global society
Further reading
Index

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