ABSTRACT
This text collects together Ben Agger's essays on the origins, significance and applications of critical theory - a perspective associated with the Frankfurt School. The essays address a variety of topics including the viability of Marxist theory and new social movements.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |16 pages
Introduction: Critical Theory Goes Public
part 1|100 pages
The Literary Production of Discipline
chapter Chapter 1|24 pages
Critical Theory, Poststructuralism, Postmodernism 1
chapter Chapter 2|23 pages
Marxism, Feminism, Deconstruction: Writing the Social
chapter Chapter 3|23 pages
Reading/Writing Otherwise: Radical Hermeneutics as Critical Theory
chapter Chapter 4|17 pages
Aporias of Academic Production *
chapter Chapter 5|11 pages
Do Books Write Authors?: Textbooks and Disciplinary Hegemony
part 2|89 pages
Critical Theory and The Social Problems of Modernity
