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Notes to Literature by Theodor W. Adorno 9780231179652
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €34.89Notes to Literature is a collection of the great social theorist Theodor W. Adorno's essays on such writers as Mann, Bloch, Hoelderlin, Siegfried Kracauer, Goethe, Benjamin, and Stefan George. It... -
Lectures 1949-1968, Volume 2: Social Theory and Politics Theodor W. Adorno 9781509552412
RRP: €65.45Booksplease Price: €58.37When Theodor W. Adorno returned to Germany from his exile in the United States, he was appointed as a lecturer and researcher at the University of Frankfurt and he immediately made a name for himself... -
The Family of Man Revisited: Photography in a Global Age Gerd Hurm (Bloomsbury author, no email.) 9781784539672
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €30.39The Family of Man is the most widely seen exhibition in the history of photography. The book of the exhibition, still in print, is also the most commercially successful photobook ever published... -
Critical Theory: The Basics by Martin Shuster 9781032061559
RRP: €154.70Booksplease Price: €138.00Critical Theory: The Basics brings clarity to a topic that is confusingly bandied about with various meanings today in popular and academic culture.First defined by Max Horkheimer in the 1930s,... -
Lectures 1949-1968, Volume 2: Social Theory and Politics Theodor W. Adorno 9781509552429
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €21.29When Theodor W. Adorno returned to Germany from his exile in the United States, he was appointed as a lecturer and researcher at the University of Frankfurt and he immediately made a name for himself... -
Gender, Law and Justice in a Global Market by Ann Stewart 9780521746533
RRP: €49.98Booksplease Price: €46.54Theories of gender justice in the twenty-first century must engage with global economic and social processes. Using concepts from economic analysis associated with global commodity chains and... -
Revisiting the Frankfurt School: Essays on Culture, Media and Theory by David Berry 9781138111066
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €52.29What has become known as the Frankfurt School is often reduced to a small number of theorists in media communication and cultural studies. Challenging this limitation, Revisiting The Frankfurt School... -
Death and Mastery: Psychoanalytic Drive Theory and the Subject of Late Capitalism by Benjamin Y. Fong
RRP: €129.71Booksplease Price: €101.75The first philosophers of the Frankfurt School famously turned to the psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud to supplement their Marxist analyses of ideological subjectification. Since the collapse... -
Death and Mastery: Psychoanalytic Drive Theory and the Subject of Late Capitalism by Benjamin Fong
RRP: €33.32Booksplease Price: €28.00The first philosophers of the Frankfurt School famously turned to the psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud to supplement their Marxist analyses of ideological subjectification. Since the collapse... -
Siegfried Kracauer: An Introduction by Gertrud Koch
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €38.95Siegfried Kracauer has been misunderstood as a naive realist, appreciated as an astute critic of early German film, and noticed as the interesting exile who exchanged letters with Erwin Panofsky. But... -
Crowds: The Stadium as a Ritual of Intensity by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €11.48Anyone who has ever experienced a sporting event in a large stadium knows the energy that emanates from stands full of fans cheering on their teams. Although "the masses" have long held a thoroughly... -
Pathologies of Reason: On the Legacy of Critical Theory by Axel Honneth 9780231146272
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €20.09Axel Honneth has been instrumental in advancing the work of the Frankfurt School of critical theorists, rebuilding their effort to combine radical social and political analysis with rigorous... -
False Prophets: A Study of the Techniques of the American Agitator by Norbert Guterman 9781788736961
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.89A classic book that analyzes and defines media appeals specific to American pro-fascist and anti-Semite agitators of the 1940s, such as the application of psychosocial manipulation for political ends... -
The Dialectic of Digital Culture by David Arditi 9781498589888
Booksplease Price: €44.99This edited collection analyzes the role of digital technology in contemporary society dialectically. While many authors, journalists, and commentators have argued that the internet and digital... -
Pathologies of Reason: On the Legacy of Critical Theory by Axel Honneth 9780231146265
RRP: €99.96Booksplease Price: €78.99Axel Honneth has been instrumental in advancing the work of the Frankfurt School of critical theorists, rebuilding their effort to combine radical social and political analysis with rigorous... -
The Dialectic of Digital Culture by David Arditi 9781498589864
Booksplease Price: €108.75This edited collection analyzes the role of digital technology in contemporary society dialectically. While many authors, journalists, and commentators have argued that the internet and digital... -
Technology as Magic: The Triumph of the Irrational by Richard Stivers 9780826413673
Booksplease Price: €39.78Stivers argues that our expectations of technology in society have led to the generation of a multitude of imitation technologies that function as magical practices once did. This is particularly... -
The Routledge Guidebook to Horkheimer and Adorno’s Dialectic of Enlightenment Espen Hammer 9781032048901
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €30.37Composed whilst in exile in the United States during the Second World War, Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment is the most famous and influential text of the Frankfurt... -
Habermas: A Biography Stefan Muller-Doohm 9780745689067
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €23.12'Jurgen Habermas', wrote the American philosopher Ronald Dworkin on the occasion of the great European thinker's eightieth birthday, 'is not only the world's most famous living philosopher. Even his... -
The Politics of Care in Habermas and Derrida: Between Measurability and Immeasurability by Richard Ganis 9780739150092
Booksplease Price: €114.66The Politics of Care in Habermas and Derrida provides a penetrating analysis of the tensions and possibilities that animate the dialogue between two of the most significant frameworks of moral... -
Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School by Stuart Jeffries
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €12.40In 1923, a group of young radical German thinkers and intellectuals came together to at Victoria Alle 7, Frankfurt, determined to explain the workings of the modern world. Among the most prominent... -
Feminism and Power: The Need for Critical Theory by Professor Mary Caputi 9781498515405
Booksplease Price: €61.52Feminism and Power: the Need for Critical Theory is a six-chapter manuscript which offers an important critique of "power feminism." The latter, having produced such spinoffs as "grrrl power,"... -
Reason, Tradition, and the Good: MacIntyre's Tradition-Constituted Reason and Frankfurt School Critical Theory by Jeffery Nicholas 9780268036645
Booksplease Price: €36.19In Reason, Tradition, and the Good, Jeffery L. Nicholas addresses the failure of reason in modernity to bring about a just society, a society in which people can attain fulfillment. Developing the... -
Mapping Ideology by Slavoj Zizek
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.66For a long time, the term 'ideology' was in disrepute, having become associated with such unfashionable notions as fundamental truth and the eternal verities. The tide has turned, and recent years... -
The Frankfurt School, Jewish Lives, and Antisemitism by Jack Jacobs 9780521513753
RRP: €111.86Booksplease Price: €106.73The history of the Frankfurt School cannot be fully told without examining the relationships of Critical Theorists to their Jewish family backgrounds. Jewish matters had significant effects on key... -
The Moment of Liberation in Western Europe: Power Struggles and Rebellions, 1943-1948 by Gerd-Rainer Horn 9780199587919
RRP: €116.62Booksplease Price: €106.39The Moment of Liberation in Western Europe, 1943-1948, regards the final two years of World War II and the immediate post-liberation period as a moment in twentieth century history, when the shape... -
The Dunayevskaya-Marcuse-Fromm Correspondence, 1954-1978: Dialogues on Hegel, Marx, and Critical Theory by Professor Kevin B. Anderson 9780739168363
Booksplease Price: €55.62This book presents for the first time the correspondence during the years 1954 to 1978 between the Marxist-Humanist and feminist philosopher Raya Dunayevskaya (1910-87) and two other noted thinkers,... -
The Frankfurt School, Jewish Lives, and Antisemitism by Jack Jacobs 9780521730273
RRP: €30.94Booksplease Price: €30.84The history of the Frankfurt School cannot be fully told without examining the relationships of Critical Theorists to their Jewish family backgrounds. Jewish matters had significant effects on key... -
The Return of Work in Critical Theory: Self, Society, Politics by Christophe Dejours
RRP: €73.78Booksplease Price: €58.96From John Maynard Keynes's prediction of a fifteen-hour workweek to present-day speculation about automation, we have not stopped forecasting the end of work. Critical theory and political philosophy... -
The Frankfurt School in Exile by Thomas Wheatland
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €24.23Members of the Frankfurt School have had an enormous effect on Western thought, beginning soon after Max Horkheimer became the director of the Institute for Social Research at the University of... -
Cultural Resistance Reader by Stephen Duncombe 9781859843796
RRP: €33.31Booksplease Price: €28.63From the Diggers seizing St. George Hill in 1649 to Hacktivists staging virtual sit-ins in the 21st century, from the retributive fantasies of Robin Hoods to those of gangsta rappers, culture has... -
The Writer of Modern Life: Essays on Charles Baudelaire by Walter Benjamin 9780674022874
RRP: €28.50Booksplease Price: €24.00Walter Benjamin's essays on the great French lyric poet Charles Baudelaire revolutionized not just the way we think about Baudelaire, but our understanding of modernity and modernism as well. In... -
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The Un-Americans: Jews, the Blacklist, and Stoolpigeon Culture by Joseph Litvak 9780822344674 [USED COPY]
RRP: €133.28Booksplease Price: €32.90In a bold rethinking of the Hollywood blacklist and McCarthyite America, Joseph Litvak reveals a political regime that did not end with the 1950s or even with the Cold War: a regime of compulsory... -
The Un-Americans: Jews, the Blacklist, and Stoolpigeon Culture by Joseph Litvak 9780822344841
Booksplease Price: €39.64In a bold rethinking of the Hollywood blacklist and McCarthyite America, Joseph Litvak reveals a political regime that did not end with the 1950s or even with the Cold War: a regime of compulsory...