Critical Theory and Its Future
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6352196 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William Lei (0000-0002-5192-1788, York University, corresponding author), William Leiss (York University) |
| Year | 1974 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 330-349 |
| Publication date | 1974-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-5917 • E-ISSN: 1552-7476 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/009059177400200306 |
| OpenAlex | W2001808354 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
h N THE 1930s, Max Horkheimer and Herbert Marcuse gave an interpretation of critical theory and its aims. Both Horkheimer and Marcuse prefaced the republication in 1968 of their earlier essays with a reassessment of the state of critical theory, and both contended that changing historical circumstances in the period from the 1930s to the present undermined certain crucial presuppositions of the theory and necessitated modifications in its aims and structure.! Their basic presupposition had been that the transition from capitalism to socialism in at least some of the European nations was a real and immediate possibility. Their basic intention was to assist that transition (in however small a measure) by unmasking a problem which had received insufficient attention in the Marxist literature up to their day-namely, the inhibition of the revolutionary potential of the masses through the manifold devices of culture which had resulted from the centuries-long internalization of
Epistemology · Law and economics · Political science · Sociology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,09 |
| Citation span | 1983 - 2021 (39) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |