New critical theory for the new Millennium: On Ben Agger'sCritical Social Theories – An Introduction

Philosophy & Social Criticism

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 109-112

  Murakami, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

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EID: 84992812854     PISSN: 01914537     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/019145370002600606     Document Type: Review

References (15)

1. See M. Jay, The Dialectical Imagination — A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research 1923–1950 (London: Heinemann, 1974).
2. See I. Kant, Critique of Pure Reason [1781], in W. McNeill and K. Feldman (eds) Continental Philosophy — An Anthology (Oxford: Blackwell, 1998).
3. Most likely Agger refers to Habermas's theory of life-world; see J. Habermas, The Theory of Communicative Action: Reason and the Rationalisation of Society, Volume I (Oxford: Polity Press, 1997 [reprint]).
4. ‘In short, a fundamental assumption of critical theory is that every form of social order entails some forms of domination and that the critical-emancipatory interest underlies the struggle to change those relations of domination-subordination.’ R. Morrow, Critical Theory and Methodology (London: Sage, 1994), p. 149.
5. See M. Horkheimer, ‘Traditional and Critical Theory’, in M. Horkheimer, Critical Theory — Selected Essays, trans. M. J. O'Connell et al. (New York: Herder, 1972[1937]).
6. See French anti-human and structuralist Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser (1918–90) and his work For Marx (New York: Vintage Books, 1970).
7. See L. Wittgenstein's ‘language games’, in his Philosophical Investigations (Oxford: Blackwell, 1970).
8. Hermeneutics, or the study of interpretation, is an important philosophical outgrowth of literary theory beginning with Bible studies; see Hans-Georg Gadamer (1975) in: McNeill, W. & Feldman, K. (eds) (1998). Continental Philosophy — An Anthology. Oxford: Blackwell.
9. J. Habermas, Knowledge and Human Interests (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1968).
10. in W. McNeill and K. Feldman (eds) Continental Philosophy — An Anthology (Oxford: Blackwell, 1998).
11. See M. Horkheimer, Eclipse of Reason (New York: Seabury Press, 1974[1941]).
12. and M. Horkheimer and T. Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment (London: Verso, 1989[1947]).
13. J. Habermas, ‘Towards a Reconstruction of Historical Materialism’, Theory & Society 2(3) (1975).
14. J. Habermas, Communication and the Evolution of Society, trans. Thomas McCarthy (Boston, MA: Beacon, 1979).
15. T. Adorno et al. (eds) The Positivist Dispute in German Sociology (London: Heinemann, 1974).