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Critical Theory emerged in the 1920s from the task of the Frankfurt University, the circle of German-Jewish academics who searched for to detect - and, if possible, cure - the ills of culture, particularly fascism and capitalism. With this reserve, Stephen Eric Bronner provides sketches of leading representatives of the critical traditions (such as George Lukács and Ernst Bloch, Theodor Adorno and Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse and Jurgen Habermas) as well as much of its seminal texts and empirical investigations. This Very Brief Release sheds light on the cluster of principles and themes or templates that establish critical theory aside from its more traditional philosophical competitors. Bronner points out and discusses principles such as method and organization, alienation and reification, the culture industry and repressive tolerance, non-identity and utopia. He argues for the advantages of new categories and perspectives for illuminating the hurdles to intensifying change and concentrating upon hidden transformative options. Only a critique of critical theory can render it salient for a new age. That is just what this very short introduction provides.
