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Against Orthodoxy: Social Theory and Its Discontents

By Stanley Aronowitz

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2015
ISBN
1137388293, 9781137388292
Google Books ID
md6_CQAAQBAJ
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2227478 bytes)
Series
Political Philosophy and Public Purpose
Pages
viii+190\200
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2015-07-05 06:35:28
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Description

In Against Orthodoxy, the author engages some of the most provocative thinkers of the twentieth century, including Georg Lukacs, Antonio Gramsci, Herbert Marcuse, Karl Marx, Harry Braverman and Paulo Freire. All of these social and political theorists were dedicated to fundamental social change, but many were forced to recognize the difficulty of achieving change in the modern world. This book demonstrates that all of them reject conventional interpretations of how radical change might be possible. What marks their unity is an effort to address capitalism's ability to incorporate widespread popular alienation. Consequently they urge serious attention to issues of culture, subjectivity, and education.

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