TY - BOOK AU - Michael Adrian Peters AU - Colin Lankshear AU - Mark Olssen PY - 2021 CY - New York, United States of America PB - Peter Lang Verlag SN - 1058-1634 TI - Critical Theory and the Human Condition T2 - Founders and Praxis UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1096490 N2 - This book presents essays written by internationally acclaimed scholars on the leading figures and major social projects and movements within the tradition of critical theory. Critical Theory and the Human Condition is organized in two parts: «Labors of the Dialectic» and «Projects and Movements». «Labors of the Dialectic» addresses key themes associated with the work of Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, Walter Benjamin, Eric Fromm, Herbert Marcuse, Hannah Arendt, Karl Marx and Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Jürgen Habermas and Maxine Greene. Their work is situated in relation to contemporary issues associated with the human condition. «Projects and Movements» deals with the new politics of cynicism, knowledge, dialogue and humanization, critical race theory, critical multiculturalism, the body and feminist aesthetics, cultural studies, and the environment. KW - knowledge, cynicism, humanization, multiculturalism, environment LA - English ER -