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  1. Adorno, Theodor W.
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    German-born international intellectual, sociologist, philosopher, musicologist, and composer. (1903-1969).
  2. Benjamin, Walter
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    German-Jewish Marxist, literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. (1892-1940).
  3. Critical Theory
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1968   Published: 1972
    Essays by the founder of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt.
  4. The Critique of Practical Reason
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1788
  5. The Critique of Pure Reason
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1787
    According to Kant, "The first step in regard to the subjects of pure reason, and which marks the infancy of that faculty, is dogmatic. The second, which we have just mentioned, is sceptical, and it gives evidence that our judgement has been improved by experience. But a third step, such as can be taken only by fully matured judgment, based on assured principles of proved universality, is now necessary, namely to subject to examination, not the facts of reason, but reason itself, ... not the censorship but the criticism of reason, whereby not its present bounds but its determinate and necessary limits."
  6. Culture of Complaint
    The Fraying of America
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    Propaganda-talk, euphemism, and evasion are so much a part of American usage today that they cross all party lines and ideological divides. The art of not answering the question, of cloaking unpleasant realities in abstraction or sugar, is so perfectly endemic that we expect nothing else.
  7. The Enlightenment
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A term used to describe a time in Western philosophy and cultural life, centered upon the eighteenth century.
  8. Frankfurt School
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A school of neo-Marxist critical theory, social research, and philosophy associated with the original Institute for Social Research of the University of Frankfurt am Main.
  9. The Frankfurt School and "Critical Theory"
    Resource Type: Website
    Index to the biographies and writings of members of the 'Frankfurt School,' or Institute for Social Research, set up by a group of Marxist intellectuals in Germany in 1923.
  10. Horkheimer, Max
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    German philosopher and sociologist and member of the Frankfurt School. (1885-1973).
  11. Marcuse, Herbert
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Marxist philosopher, political theorist and sociologist. (1898-1979).
  12. Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 4
    Marx and Engels 1844 - 1845
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1845
    Includes The Holy Family, or Critique of Critical Criticism, and The Condition of the Working-Class in England.
  13. Marx, Freud, and the Critique of Everyday Life
    Toward a Permanent Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
    The theory and practice of revolutionary social transformation, Brown argues, must encompass the subjective, psychological dimensions of the revolutionary process.
  14. Marx Myths & Legends
    Resource Type: Website
    A critical reading of the work of Karl Marx now requires us to lay to one side the myths and legends which have obscured his ideas over the past one hundred and twenty years- distortions and misinterpretations to which perhaps no thinker has been more prone. In one sense, this is not difficult, because there is enough of his writing preserved, albeit in translation, for any of us to read Marx in his own words. Most however have been unwilling or unable to do this. The fifty volumes of the Marx-Engels Collected Works are forbidding, and when beginning as one almost inevitably does, with the received wisdom surrounding Marx’s name, there is much to discourage a reader from seriously taking on the task of understanding Marx. The aim of this project is thus to begin to challenge some of those myths in order to clear the way for a fresh reading of Marx that will hopefully be less prone to the distortions, misunderstandings and blatant falsehoods that have so far surrounded Marx. We believe that what Marx had to say remains of considerable relevance to an understanding of problems we face today, but that a reading of Marx now must maintain a critical caution which does not merely reproduce received ideas- positive or negative- about Marx’s work.
  15. Marx, theoretician of anarchism 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1973
    Under the name communism, Marx developed a theory of anarchism; and further, in fact it was he who was the first to provide a rational basis for the anarchist utopia and to put forward a project for achieving it.
  16. Moralising Criticism and Critical Morality
    A Contribution to German Cultural History Contra Karl Heinzen
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1847
  17. Walter Benjamin
    Or, Towards a Revolutionary Criticism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    Eagleton's goal here is to to contemplate Benjamin's approach to language, history, and art and to chart a dynamic new course for contemporary socialist criticism.
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