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Routledge
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First Published in 1991. The first wave of North American critical theory was at once both academic and political. Interest in the works of the early Frankfurt School may have belonged to a more general renaissance of academic social theory that occurred in North America during the late 1960s and early 1970s. There is a new voice that comes through the historic political struggles of a student... Read more
1 Touring Hyperreality: Critical Theory Confronts Informational Society 2 Critical Theory, Gramsci and Cultural Studies: From Structuralism to Poststructuralism 3 Playing with the Pieces: The Fragmentation of Social Theory 4 The Uses and Abuses of French Discourse Theories for Feminist Politics 5 Theorizing the Decline of Discourse or the Decline of Theoretical Discourse? 6 How Mothers Quit Resisting and Managed to Love TV 7 From Pathos to Panic: American Character Meets the Future 8 Afterword. Collective/Self/Collective: A Short Chapter in the Professional Middle Class Story
Biography
Philip Wexler is Professor of Sociology and Education at the University of Rochester, New York.
