(Paperback)

An analysis of how Adorno's "pure" philosophy can be seen to provide a justification of the rationality required by critical theory.

(Paperback)

In this first serious work on the theory of civil society to appear in many years, Jean Cohen and Andrew Arato contend that the concept of civil society articulates a contested terrain in the West that could become the primary locus for the expansion of democracy and rights.

(Paperback)

The book juxtaposes key texts from Foucault and Habermas; it then adds a set of reactions and commentaries by theorists who have taken up the two alternative approaches to power and critique. The result is a guide for those seeking to understand and build on an unfinished debate between two of the 20th century's most important philosophers.

(Paperback)

A wide-ranging collection of philosophical essays in honor of Hans-Georg Gadamer.

(Paperback)

In this book, scholars from a wide range of disciplines respond to Habermas's most directly relevant work, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere.

(Paperback)

Provides both a reinterpretation of Hegel and insight into the evolution of Adorno's critical theory. The studies focus on the relationship of reason, the individual and society in Hegel; examine the experiential content of Hegel's idealism; and lay out Adorno's thoughts on understanding Hegel.

(Paperback)

Well-written, clear and informed, the study does much to clarify the present discourse between the Frankfurt School's critical theorists and the structuralisms.

(Paperback)

In this sweeping challenge to the postmodern critiques of psychoanalysis, Joel Whitebook argues for a reintegration of Freud's uncompromising investigation of the unconscious with the political and philosophical insights of critical theory.

(Paperback)

Ernst Tugendhat's study is a unique synthesis of the contemporary, Anglo-American philosophical approach with an abiding concern for classical philosophical problems.

(Paperback)

In this rich interpretation of the history of critical theory, Axel Hormeth clarifies critical theory's central problems and emphasizes the social factors that should provide it with a normative and practical orientation.

(Paperback)

This major work by the German philosopher Hans Blumenberg is a monumental rethinking of the significance of the Copernican revolution for our understanding of modernity.

(Paperback)

In this major work, Blumenberg takes issue with Karl Lowith's well-known thesis that the idea of progress is a secularized version of Christian eschatology, which promises a dramatic intervention that will consummate the history of the world from outside.

(Paperback)

This is the third volume of a three-volume text on the critical history of the utopian vision and an exploration of the possible reality of utopia.

(Paperback)

Volume 2 of the great works of the human spirit presents "the outlines of a better world." It examines the utopian systems that progressive thinkers have developed in the fields of medicine, painting, opera, poetry, and ultimately, philosophy.

(Paperback)

This text is part of a three-volume critical history of the utopian vision and an exploration of the possible reality of utopia. This first volume lays the foundations of the philosophy of process and introduces the idea of the "not-yet-conscious."

(Paperback)

Essays in aesthetics by the philosopher Ernst Bloch that belong to the tradition of cultural criticism represented by Georg Lukcs, Theodor Adorno, and Walter Benjamin.

(Paperback)

In this rich examination of how we inherit and transform myths, Hans Blumenberg continues his study of the philosophical roots of the modern world.

(Paperback)

The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy offers a powerful criticism of the inconsistencies of representative democracy.

(Paperback)

Walter Benjamin's magnum opus was a book he did not live to write. "In The Dialectics of Seeing", Susan Buck_Morss offers a reconstruction of the "Passagen- Werk", or "Arcades Project" as it might have taken form.