Title: The Frankfurt School critique of capitalist culture : a critical theory for post-democratic society and its re-education /
Authors: Schindler, Ronald Jeremiah
Publisher: Ashgate,
Year: 1998
Subjects: Philosophy, Modern; Philosophy, Modern; Critical theory; Frankfurt school of sociology.
Contents: The dialectical intelligence : its origins in German philosophy -- Toward a metatheoretical reconstruction of Marxism -- Philosophy and critico-practical activity -- Habermas's historical materialism and semiotic phenomenology -- Contemporary modalities of alienated consciousness -- False consciousness : ideology and mental pathology -- Materialist phenomenology of language -- Work and communicative competence -- Whither critical theory and its exponents -- Hermeneutics and political visions for the universities -- Conclusions.