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<p>Alway identifies and assesses new models of emancipatory politics in the Frankfurt Schools Critical Theory. She outlines the complexities of Critical Theory, and clarifies the logical connections between assumptions that inform the critical theorists' analyses of social conditions and their views on the possibilities for radical political practice.</p> <p>Alway examines the works of Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, and Jurgen Habermas to argue the relevance of Critical Theory to contemporary efforts to reconceptualize radical politics. Indeed Alway argues that these theorists anticipate and point to new models of emancipatory politics. Unpacking the complexities of the critical theorists' writings and outlining them in a straightforward manner, Alway identifies the assumptions about human actors and history that inform their analyses of contemporary conditions. The explication of how these background assumptions inform their analyses then allows the author to clarify and assess the critical theorists' positions concerning the possibilities for radical social change, as well as their views on the issues and agents of such change.</p> <p>The author concludes that t
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- Author
- Joan Alway
- Publisher
- Praeger
- Published
- 1995
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780313031267
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Political Science, Social Science, Philosophy
- Rating
- 4 / 5 (4 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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