What theories can accomplish – and what they can’t
This is the title of a chapter in a book called Jürgen Habermas: The past as future, most of which...
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Tag: Frankfurt School
Fromm, Marcuse and the rise of the Marxist public intellectual
Lawrence Friedman’s 2013 biography of Erich Fromm ‘The lives of Erich Fromm: Love’s prophet’ is a...
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‘The more justice, the less freedom’: Max Horkheimer on Critical Theory
Wise words from Max Horkheimer, the original Director of the Institute for Social Reasearch, or...
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The dialectic of whisky drinking: Critical theory and the search for Scottish authenticity
Article: Karl Spracklen (2011) Dreaming of drams: authenticity in Scottish whisky tourism as an...
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So What Led Me to Critical Theory?
I was asked this question recently, and it’s a good one. Rarely if ever do I ask this question of...
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