Of Critical Theory And Its Theorists (Paperback)

Of Critical Theory and its Theorists

No project holds a more prominent place in the development ofmodern European thought than the critical theory. Usuallyassociated with various members of the Frankfurt Institute forSocial Research of the 1920s and 1930s, critical theory has beenenormously influential and quite controversial in its manifoldclaims.Of Critical Theory and Its Theorists provides uniqueinterpretations of critical theory's most importantrepresentatives: Georg Lukacs, Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno,Herbert Marcuse, Erich Fromm, Jurgen Habermas, and others.Inspired by the interdisciplinary character of the originalenterprise, Stephen Bronner ranges across many fields, fromphilosophy and aesthetics to politics and anthropology,reconstructing the radical aims of critical theory, and evaluatingits success, its failings and its legacy.Of Critical Theory and its Theorists offers a panoramic view of anexciting tradition, and a bold new perspective, from one ofAmerica's most prominent analysts of continental politics andphilosophy.