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  • The Crisis Of Modernity

    Recent Critical Theories Of Culture And Society In The United States And West Germany

    by Gunter H. Lenz, Kurt L. Shell ...
    The crisis~ of the "project of modernity" (Habermas) is, at the same time, a crisis of critical theories of society and culture that have radically questioned bourgeois culture and capitalist society and economy from the perspective of a utopia of enlightened rationality. A number of parallel recent social and political problems, developments, and ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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  • Critical Theory:A Very Short Introduction

    by Stephen Eric Bronner ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Critical Theory emerged in the 1920s from the work of the Frankfurt School, the circle of German-Jewish academics who sought to diagnose-and, if at all possible, cure-the ills of society, particularly fascism and capitalism. In this book, Stephen Eric Bronner provides sketches of leading representatives of the critical tradition (such as George Lukacs and Ernst Bloch, Theodor Adorno and Walter ... Read more

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  • The Minimal Self

    by Christopher Lasch ...
    "Even more valuable than its widely praised predecessor, The Culture of Narcissism." —John W. AldridgeFaced with an escalating arms race, rising crime and terrorism, environmental deterioration, and long-term economic decline, people have retreated from commitments that presuppose a secure and orderly world. In his latest book, Christopher Lasch, the renowned historian and social critic, ... Read more

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  • The Literary Theory Handbook

    by Gregory Castle ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Literature Handbooks
    The Literary Theory Handbook introduces students to the history and scope of literary theory, showing them how to perform literary analysis, and providing a greater understanding of the historical contexts for different theories.A new edition of this highly successful text, which includes updated and refined chapters, and new sections on contemporary theoriesFar reaching in its inclusion of a ... Read more

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  • A Dictionary of Critical Theory

    by Ian Buchanan ...
    Series series Oxford Quick Reference
    Containing over 750 in-depth entries, this is the most wide-ranging and up-to-date dictionary of critical theory available. This authoritative guide covers the whole range of critical theory, including the Frankfurt school, cultural materialism, cultural studies, gender studies, film studies, literary theory, hermeneutics, historical materialism, and socio-political critical theory. Entries ... Read more

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  • The Essential Marcuse

    Selected Writings of Philosopher and Social Critic Herbert Marcuse

    by Herbert Marcuse ...
    The Essential Marcuse provides an overview of Herbert Marcuse's political and philosophical writing over four decades, with excerpts from his major books as well as essays from various academic journals. The most influential radical philosopher of the 1960s, Marcuse's writings are noteworthy for their uncompromising opposition to both capitalism and communism. His words are as relevant to today's ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Theory's Empire

    An Anthology of Dissent

    Edited by Daphne Patai, Wilfrido Corral ...
    Not too long ago, literary theorists were writing about the death of the novel and the death of the author; today many are talking about the death of Theory. Theory, as the many theoretical ism's (among them postcolonialism, postmodernism, and New Historicism) are now known, once seemed so exciting but has become ossified and insular. This iconoclastic collection is an excellent companion to ... Read more

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  • Literary Criticism

    A Concise Political History

    by Joseph North ...
    Literary Criticism offers a concise overview of literary studies in the English-speaking world from the early twentieth century to the present. Joseph North steps back from the usual tangle of figures, schools, and movements in order to analyze the intellectual paradigms that underpinned them. The result is a radically new account of the discipline’s development, together with a trenchant argument ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • The Terms of Order

    Political Science and the Myth of Leadership

    by Cedric J. Robinson ...
    Do we live in basically orderly societies that occasionally erupt into violent conflict, or do we fail to perceive the constancy of violence and disorder in our societies? In this classic book, originally published in 1980, Cedric J. Robinson contends that our perception of political order is an illusion, maintained in part by Western political and social theorists who depend on the idea of ... Read more

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  • Keeping Faith

    Philosophy and Race in America

    by Cornel West ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    'The sheer range of West's interests and insights is staggering and exemplary: he appears equally comfortable talking about literature, ethics, art, jurisprudence, religion, and popular-cultural forms.' - ArtforumKeeping Faith is a rich, moving and deeply personal collection of essays from one of the leading African American intellectuals of our age. Drawing upon the traditions of Western ... Read more

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  • The Dark Side of Modernity

    by Jeffrey C. Alexander ...
    In this book, one of the world’s leading social theorists presents a critical, alarmed, but also nuanced understanding of the post-traditional world we inhabit today. Jeffrey Alexander writes about modernity as historical time and social condition, but also as ideology and utopia. The idea of modernity embodies the Enlightenment’s noble hopes for progress and rationality, but its reality brings ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Problem of Order

    by Dennis Wrong ...
    At the end of the twentieth century, many fear that the bonds holding civil society together have come undone. Yet, as the noted scholar Dennis Wrong shows us, our generation is not alone in fearing a breakdown of social ties and a descent into violent conflict. ... Read more

    $16.99 USD