Abstract:After the discovery and translation of the major thinkers of the Frankfurt School in the late 1960s and early 1970s, a multitude of books on critical theory have appeared in English.' Martin Jay's The...After the discovery and translation of the major thinkers of the Frankfurt School in the late 1960s and early 1970s, a multitude of books on critical theory have appeared in English.' Martin Jay's The Dialectical Imagination (1973) provided a comprehensive introduction to critical theory, displaying its defining features, central themes and a wealth of ideas on almost every conceivable topic of importance to contemporary social theory.2 Critical theory appeared to its audience in England and America as an attractive alternative to the empiricist social theories and analytical philosophies dominant in the Universities. Instead of the fragmentation of philosophy and the social sciences, critical theory offered a program of social theory which combined theory and empirical research and provided a sophisticated critique of the separation of these dimensions. Critical theory also stressed the importance of history for theory and research, conceiving of theory, at least in some of its versions, as an instrument of radical politics. Moreover, critical theory was rooted inRead More
Publication Year: 1981
Publication Date: 1981-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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