Subject and object : Frankfurt School writings on epistemology, ontology, and method

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    • Groff, Ruth

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Subject and object : Frankfurt School writings on epistemology, ontology, and method

edited by Ruth Groff

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

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Subject & Object is a thematic collection of classic works by Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, and Herbert Marcuse, designed to foreground the authors' philosophical concerns, especially in the areas of epistemology, ontology, and method. The volume, which includes lucid introductions to all of the selections, illustrates Frankfurt School approaches to questions such as the nature of reason; the limits of empiricism, pragmatism and Kantian transcendental idealism; the case for materialism; the difficulty of thinking counterfactually; and the ideological character of mainstream social science. Many of the pieces in the volume are otherwise out of print. Subject & Object will be a resource for social, political, and cultural theorists who may be less familiar with the philosophical aspects of the Frankfurt School, for analytic philosophers who may not have had previous exposure to their work at all, and for anyone wanting access to these seminal texts.

Table of Contents

Introduction Preface Epistemology 1. Horkheimer, Means and Ends 2. Marcuse, Industrialization and Capitalism in the Work of Max Weber 3. Horkheimer, On the Problem of Truth 4. Marcuse, A Note on Dialectic 5. Adorno, Negative Dialectics selections Ontology 6. Marcuse, The Concept of Essence 7. Adorno, Subject and Object 8. Adorno, Negative Dialectics selections Method 9. Horkheimer, Traditional and Critical Theory & Postscript 10. Horkheimer, The Latest Attack on Metaphysics 11. Marcuse, Philosophy and Critical Theory Index

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