Critical Theory

by David Couzens Hoy and Thomas A. McCarthy

Philosophical controversies within contemporary critical theory arise largely from questions about the nature, scope and limits of human reason. As the linguistic turn in twentieth-century philosophy has increasingly given way to a sociocritical turn, traditional ideas of 'pure' reason have been left further and further behind. There is however considerable disagreement about what that shift entails for enlightenment ideals of self-consciousness,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557861730
• ISBN13: 9781557861733
• Release Date: September 1994
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"