[FRA:] Frankfurt School readers/ anthologies

Alon Lischinsky alon at gamebox.net
Sun Feb 12 11:36:34 GMT 2006


On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 06:57:05PM -0500, Ralph Dumain wrote:

> I don't have a table of contents for this one, so it would be nice if 
> someone could send it to me:
> 
> Critical Theory: The Essential Readings, edited by David Ingram & Julia 
> Simon-Ingram. New York: Paragon House, 1992. (Paragon Issues in Philosophy)

Here it goes. I cannot comment on the quality and authorship of the
translations, as I retrieved this from an online database that does not furnish
this information.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface 
Acknowledgments 
Introduction

1. PHILOSOPHY AND CRITICAL THEORY
Herbert Marcuse, Philosophy and Critical Theory 
Theodor W. Adorno, Why Philosophy?

II. THE DIALECTIC OF ENLIGHTENMENT

Max Horkheimer, Selections from Means and Ends 
Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer,  Selections from The Concept of Enlightenment

III. CULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY AS IDEOLOGY

Theodor W Adorno, Society 
Theodor W Adorno, How to Look at Television 
Theodor W Adorno, Freudian Theory and the Pattern of Fascist Propaganda 
Herbert Marcuse, The Catastrophe of Liberation 
Jürgen Habermas, Technology and Science as Ideology 

IV. ETHICS AND CRITICAL THEORY

Herbert Marcuse, On Hedonism
Max Horkheimer, Materialism and Morality 
Jürgen Habermas, Selections from Legitimation Crisis

V. THE FOUNDATIONS AND METHODS OF  CRITICAL THEORY

Herbert Marcuse, Freedom and Freuds Theory of Instincts
Max Horkheimer, Selections from Traditional and Critical Theory
Jürgen Habermas, Knowledge and Human Interests:  A General Perspective

VI. COMMUNICATION AND SOCIAL CRISIS

Jürgen Habermas, Selections from An Alternative Way Out of the Philosophy of the Subject: Communicative Versus Subject-Centered Reason
Jürgen Habermas, What Does a Legitimation  Crisis Mean Today? Legitimation Problems in  Late Capitalism

VII. CRITICAL THEORY AND ITS CRITICS

Michel Foucault, The Subject and Power
Jean-Franqois Lyotard, Selections from The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
Jürgen Habermas, Modernity: An Unfinished Project
Nancy Fraser, Whats Critical About Critical Theory?
Seyla Benhabib, The Utopian Dimension in  Communicative Ethics 

Hope this helps,

Alon Lischinsky




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