Critical Social Theory: Culture, History, and the Challenge of Difference

Craig Calhoun

Wiley, Aug 29, 1995 - Social Science - 356 pages

In this outstanding reinterpretation - and extension - of the Critical Theory tradition, Craig Calhoun surveys the origins, fortunes and prospects of this most influential of theoretical approaches. Moving with ease from the early Frankfurt School to Habermas, to contemporary debates over postmodernism, feminism and nationalism, Calhoun breathes new life into Critical Social Theory, showing how it can learn from the past and contribute to the future.

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this is a great source for the crituque of conflict theory. moreover, book applies to works of Marcuse, Horkheimer, Adorno, Derrida, Baulliard while critiquing the old versions of critical theory.

About the author

Craig Calhoun is Professor of Sociology and History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the editor of Habermas and the Public Sphere (1992) and Social Theory and the Politics of Identity (Blackwell, 1994).

Bibliographic information

• Title: Critical Social Theory: Culture, History, and the Challenge of Difference; Twentieth Century Social Theory
• Author: Craig Calhoun
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Wiley, 1995
• ISBN: 1557862885, 9781557862884
• Length: 356 pages
• Subjects: Social Science / Sociology / General