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The SAGE Handbook of Frankfurt School Critical Theory expounds the development of critical theory from its founding thinkers to its contemporary formulations in an interdisciplinary setting. It maps the terrain of a critical social theory, expounding its distinctive character vis-a-vis alternative theoretical perspectives, exploring its theoretical foundations and developments, conceptualising its subject matters both past and present, and signalling its possible future in a time of great uncertainty. Taking a distinctively theoretical, interdisciplinary, international and contemporary perspective on the topic, this wide-ranging collection of chapters is arranged thematically over three volumes: Volume I: Key Texts and Contributions to a Critical Theory of Society Volume II: Themes Volume III: Contexts This Handbook is essential reading for scholars and students in the field, showcasing the scholarly rigor, intellectual acuteness and negative force of critical social theory, past and present.
Alfred Sohn-Rethel: Real Abstraction and the Unity of Commodity-Form and Thought Form
Alfred Sohn-Rethel: Real Abstraction and the Unity of Commodity-Form and Thought Form
‘In exchange the action is social, the mind is private’.1
Introduction
Alfred Sohn-Rethel (January 4 1899, Neuilly sur Seine, France – April 6 1990, Bremen, Germany) was a trained economist, but he is known first and foremost as a Marxist philosopher. He lived in the UK for more than three decades and published in both English and German. He earned his PhD under the supervision of the Austromarxist economist Emil Lederer in 1928 at Heidelberg. During this time, he was also introduced to the early sociology of knowledge by Karl Mannheim. After his ...
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