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Foundations of the Frankfurt School of Social Research Judith T. Marcus 9780878559633
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $87.11Foundations of the Frankfurt School of Social ResearchAbout the AuthorJudith Marcus is visiting assistant professor of sociology, Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science, the New School for... -
Negative Dialectics by Theodor W. Adorno
RRP: $68.23Booksplease Price: $61.07The major work and Adorno's culminating achievement. Negative Dialectics is a critique of the philosophies of Kant, Hegel, and Heidegger, and a visionary elaboration of the author's own vision of... -
Introduction to Sociological Theory: Theorists, Concepts, and their Applicability to the Twenty-First Century by Michele Dillon
Booksplease Price: $118.15The revised third edition of the text that combines classical and contemporary theories of sociological theory Thoroughly revised and updated, the third edition of an Introduction to Sociological... -
Philosophy as Critique of the Mind: The Doctrinal Evolution of Critical Theory by Stanislaw Czerniak 9783631661710
RRP: $98.28Booksplease Price: $88.55The authors trace the essential aspects of the evolution of critical theory from its classics Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno to its leading second- and third generation propagators Jurgen... -
German Sociology by Theodor W. Adorno 9780826409591
Booksplease Price: $85.33German sociology--indeed sociology as a discipline--belongs to modern times. This unusual anthology includes works by Theodor W. Adorno, Uta Gerhardt, Jnrgen Habermas, Max Horkheimer, Karl Ulrich... -
The Frankfurt School on Religion: Key Writings by the Major Thinkers by Eduardo Mendieta 9780415966979
RRP: $77.98Booksplease Price: $71.49In "The Frankfurt School on Religion," Eduardo Mendieta has brought together a collection of readings and essays revealing both the deep connections that the Frankfurt School has always maintained... -
The Early Frankfurt School and Religion by Margarete Kohlenbach 9781349517985
Booksplease Price: $91.14Are religions tissues of superstition and repression, or repositories of the highest hopes and aspirations of humanity, or perhaps both at the same time? For many of those thinkers who lived through... -
Corruption as Power: Criminal Governance in Peru during the Fujimori Era (1990-2000) by Alfredo Schulte-Bockholt 9783034306164
RRP: $169.26Booksplease Price: $149.66This book deals with the political corruption which infested Peru during the Fujimori years (1990-2000). The work is not about petty corruption, the small bribe paid to the underpaid police officer... -
Dialectic of Enlightenment in the Anglosphere: Horkheimer and Adorno's Remnants of Freedom by Howard Prosser 9789811535239
RRP: $171.60Booksplease Price: $155.51This book explores the reception of Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment. It examines a variety of perspectives on the text, supplied by e.g. American critical theorists,... -
Subject and Object: Frankfurt School Writings on Epistemology, Ontology, and Method by Dr. Ruth Groff 9781441122865
Booksplease Price: $85.33Subject & Object is a thematic collection of classic works by Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, and Herbert Marcuse, designed to foreground the authors’ philosophical concerns, especially in the areas... -
German Scholars in Exile: New Studies in Intellectual History by Axel Fair-Schulz 9780739150238
Booksplease Price: $220.56German Scholars in Exiledeals with intellectuals who fled Nazi Germany and found refuge in either the United States or in American Services in Great Britain and post-WWII Germany. The volume focuses... -
Homer, Humanism, Holocaust: Jewish Responses to the Crisis of Enlightenment During World War II by Adam J. Goldwyn 9783031114724
RRP: $87.73Booksplease Price: $71.06This book examines how Jewish intellectuals during and after the Second World War reinterpreted Homer's epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, in light of their own wartime experiences, drawing a parallel... -
Thou Shalt Not Kill: A Political and Theological Dialogue by Adriana Cavarero 9780823267347
RRP: $117.00Booksplease Price: $96.08In this fascinating and rare little book, a leading Italian feminist philosopher and the Archbishop of Milan face off over the contemporary meaning of the biblical commandment not to kill. The... -
The Society of Individuals by Norbert Elias 9780826413727
Booksplease Price: $56.53Originally published in 1991 and now reissued by Continuum International, this book consists of three sections. The first, written in 1939, was either left out of Elias's most famous book, The... -
Spectacle by Jennifer Creech 9783034318037
RRP: $168.97Booksplease Price: $149.41How does the visual nature of spectacle inform the citizenry, destabilize the political, challenge aesthetic convention and celebrate cultural creativity? What are the limits – aesthetic, political,... -
Cultural Capital and Creative Communication: (Anti-)Modern and (Non-)Eurocentric Perspectives by Oana Șerban
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $85.68Inspired by Bourdieu’s thought, this book explores the notion of cultural capital, offering insights into its various definitions, its evolution and the critical theories that engage with it... -
Adorno's Poetics of Critique by Steven Helmling 9781441119643
Booksplease Price: $79.54Adorno's Poetics of Critique is a critical study of the Marxist culture-critic Theodor W. Adorno, a founding member of the Frankfurt school and widely regarded today as its most brilliant exponent... -
German Essays on Film Richard McCormick 9780826415073
Booksplease Price: $78.74This fascinating volume is for all serious students of European cinema as well as historians of Germany in the 20th century. "German Essays on Film" is divided into five parts: Late Wilhelmine... -
The Twilight of Reason: Benjamin, Adorno, Horkheimer and Levinas Tested by the Catastrophe by Orietta Ombrosi 9781936235759
Booksplease Price: $159.61"Think of the disaster" is the first injunction of thought when faced with the disaster that struck European Jews during the Shoah. Thinking of the disaster means understanding why the Shoah was able... -
Does Ethics Have a Chance in a World of Consumers? by Zygmunt Bauman 9780674033511
RRP: $52.55Booksplease Price: $45.10Zygmunt Bauman is one of the most admired social thinkers of our time. Once a Marxist sociologist, he has surrendered the narrowness of both Marxism and sociology, and dares to write in language that... -
The Tragedy of Enlightenment: An Essay on the Frankfurt School by Paul Connerton 9780521296755
Booksplease Price: $62.63First published in 1980, this essay on the Frankfurt School deals with one of the most important threads in the story of cultural migration from Europe which began in the 1930s. For long best known... -
The Twilight of Reason: Benjamin, Adorno, Horkheimer and Levinas Tested by the Catastrophe by Orietta Ombrosi 9781644696675
RRP: $54.50Booksplease Price: $35.80Think of the disaster" is the first injunction of thought when faced with the disaster that struck European Jews during the Shoah. Thinking of the disaster means understanding why the Shoah was able... -
American Philosophy and the Intellectual Migration: Pragmatism, Logical Empiricism, Phenomenology, Critical Theory by Sander Verhaegh 9783111334981
RRP: $231.08Booksplease Price: $148.92How did immigrant scholars such as Rudolf Carnap, Max Horkheimer, and Alfred Schutz influence the development of American philosophy? Why was the U.S. community more receptive to logical empiricism... -
Inventions of Enlightenment Since 1800: Concepts of Lumières, Enlightenment and Aufklärung by Élisabeth Décultot 9781802078763
Booksplease Price: $190.96Enlightenment values, including an emphasis on human rights and belief in rationalism and progress, aspire to be universals, yet at the same time they are concepts grounded in the eighteenth century... -
Cosmopolitan Modernity by Anastasia Marinopoulou 9783034308731
RRP: $156.20Booksplease Price: $139.00This book examines recent debates on the political dynamics of cosmopolitanism, particularly in its connection with European civil society and the public sphere. The aim of the volume is to trace to... -
Philosophy of Modern Music by Theodor W. Adorno 9780826499608
Booksplease Price: $62.13In this classic work, Adorno revolutionized music theory through an analysis of two composers he saw as polar opposites, Arnold Schoenberg and Igor Stravinsky. Philosophy of Modern Music presents a... -
Dialectic of Enlightenment in the Anglosphere: Horkheimer and Adorno's Remnants of Freedom by Howard Prosser 9789811535208
RRP: $175.48Booksplease Price: $157.40This book explores the reception of Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment. It examines a variety of perspectives on the text, supplied by e.g. American critical theorists,... -
Recognition: A Chapter in the History of European Ideas by Axel Honneth
RRP: $152.10Booksplease Price: $145.53The idea that we are mutually dependent on the recognition of our peers is at least as old as modernity. Across Europe, this idea has been understood in different ways from the very beginning,... -
The Critique of Power: Reflective Stages in a Critical Social Theory by Axel Honneth 9780262581288
Booksplease Price: $89.49In this rich interpretation of the history of critical theory, Axel Hormeth clarifies critical theory's central problems and emphasizes the social factors that should provide it with a normative and... -
![Huxley's ""Brave New World: Essays by David Garrett Izzo 9780786436835](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/2752109/2751447/9780786436835__00274.1714740446.jpg?c=1 "Huxley's ""Brave New World: Essays by David Garrett Izzo 9780786436835")
Huxley's ""Brave New World: Essays by David Garrett Izzo 9780786436835
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $38.20Aldous Huxley was one of the most prophetic intellectuals of the twentieth century, and his best-known work was a novel of ideas that warned of a terrible future then 600 years away. Though ""Brave... -
The Politics of Organized Crime and the Organized Crime of Politics: A Study in Criminal Power by Alfredo Schulte-Bockholt 9780739113585
Booksplease Price: $85.33More than simply a study of the mafia, Alfredo Schulte-Bockholt's work argues that collaboration between political science and criminology is critical to understanding the real nature of organized... -
The Persistence of Critical Theory Gabriel R. Ricci 9781412864282
RRP: $109.18Booksplease Price: $97.29The latest volume of Culture and Civilization gathers contemporary exponents of critical theory, specifically those based in the Frankfurt School of social thinking. Collectively, this volume... -
The Politics of Military Occupation by Peter Stirk 9780748636716
RRP: $195.00Booksplease Price: $176.67Military occupation is a recurrent feature of modern international politics and yet has received little attention from political scientists. This book sets out to remedy this neglect, offering: *an... -
The Mathematical Imagination: On the Origins and Promise of Critical Theory by Matthew Handelman 9780823283835
RRP: $148.20Booksplease Price: $120.45This book offers an archeology of the undeveloped potential of mathematics for critical theory. As Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno first conceived of the critical project in the 1930s, critical... -
The Mathematical Imagination: On the Origins and Promise of Critical Theory by Matthew Handelman
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $40.74This book offers an archeology of the undeveloped potential of mathematics for critical theory. As Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno first conceived of the critical project in the 1930s, critical... -
The Politics of Military Occupation by Peter Stirk
RRP: $60.45Booksplease Price: $54.19Military occupation is a recurrent feature of modern international politics and yet has received little attention from political scientists. This book, newly available in paperback, sets out to... -
Origin and Significance of the Frankfurt School (RLE Social Theory): A Marxist Perspective Phil Slater 9781138977778
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $85.68The term 'Frankfurt School' is used widely, but sometimes loosely, to describe both a group of intellectuals and a specific social theory. Focusing on the formative and most radical years of the... -
A Critical Theory of Global Justice: The Frankfurt School and World Society by Malte Froslee Ibsen 9780192864123
RRP: $234.00Booksplease Price: $216.24The idea of a critical theory is famous across the world, yet it is today rarely practised as originally conceived by the Frankfurt School. The waning influence of critical theory in the contemporary... -
Critical Theory and Political Possibilities: Conceptions of Emancipatory Politics in the Works of Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse, and Habermas by Joan Alway 9780313293177
Booksplease Price: $201.06Alway 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... -
What Is Enlightenment?: Eighteenth-Century Answers and Twentieth-Century Questions by James Schmidt
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $56.94This collection contains the first English translations of a group of important eighteenth-century German essays that address the question, 'What is Enlightenment?'. The book also includes newly...