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by temonays
Mon Jun 17, 2013 2:33 pm
Forum: Political Philosophy
Topic: Marxism and Critical Theory
Replies: 4
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Re: Marxism and Critical Theory

This is a synthesis of information from of online sources, books, and questions asked to lecturers of philosophy. Orthodox Marxism, where structuralisms who believed that all human problems are redeemable to some economic principle. Hence these were reductionists, as they saw the economy as that bas...
by temonays
Thu Jun 13, 2013 3:36 pm
Forum: Political Philosophy
Topic: Marxism and Critical Theory
Replies: 4
Views: 2331

Marxism and Critical Theory

Critical theorists, such as Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse and Jurgen Habermas, aimed to understand and uncover the assumptions that keep us from a full and true understanding of how the world works. They based their theories on Hegel's and Marx's views but how did these, first and ...