Table of Contents

The Frankfurt School; a preliminary outline of critical theory; the failure of metaphysics; the critique of positivism; the attractions and limits of psychology; the analysis of bourgeois society; paradoxes of reason; the contours of critical theory; the authoritarian and the democratic state; morality and interest; individual and collective identity.

About the Author

Peter Stirk is a lecturer in Politics at the University of Durham. His previous books include Max Horkheimer: A New Interpretation (1992) and, as co-editor, An Introduction to Political Ideas (Pinter, 1995).