Subject and object
Subtitle: Frankfurt School writings on epistemology, ontology, and method
By: edited By Ruth Groff
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9781441137289; 9781441122865
Subjects: Frankfurt school of sociology; Theory of Knowledge; Ontology; Critical theory; Institut für Sozialforschung (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Description: "Subject & 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 of epistemology, ontology, and method. The volume, which includes lucid introductions to all of the selections, illustrates Frankfurt School approaches to questions such as the nature of reason; the limits of empiricism, pragmatism and Kantian transcendental idealism; the case for materialism; the difficulty of thinking counterfactually; and the ideological character of mainstream social science. Many of the pieces in the volume are otherwise out of print. Subject & Object will be a resource for social, political, and cultural theorists who may be less familiar with the philosophical aspects of the Frankfurt School, for analytic philosophers who may not have had previous exposure to their work at all, and for anyone wanting access to these seminal texts."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.