From Kant to Levi-Strauss : The Background to Contemporary Critical Theory
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0748615067
ISBN-13
9780748615063
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Imprint
Edinburgh University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 29th, 2002
Print length
272 Pages
Weight
400 grams
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15.60 x 23.20 x 1.80 cms
Product Classification:
Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900
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This introductory textbook provides students and other readers with an accessible basic guide to key figures in 'The Tradition of Critique' - critical post-Enlightenment European thinking.
This introductory textbook provides students and other readers with an accessible basic guide to key figures in ''The Tradition of Critique'' - critical post-Enlightenment European thinking.The intellectual tradition covered by the book is broadly the Continental philosophy and theory which has had a significant impact on many theoretical innovations in the humanities and social sciences. Yet many students and non-philosophers have little understanding of the tradition on which such thinking draws. The book therefore covers those thinkers whose work serves as the background for many contemporary thinkers such as Derrida, Foucault and Habermas.There are individual chapters on: Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Weber, Freud, Lukacs, Adorno and Horkheimer, Husserl, Heidegger, Gadamer, Wittgenstein, Arendt and Levi-Strauss. Each chapter offers some contextualisation, presents and explains key concepts, explains the thinker''s relevance to an ongoing tradition and offers suggestions for further reading.The vo
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