{"product_id":"9781350459380","title":"Critical Theory of Social Domination Marxism, The Frankfurt School, and the Critique of Capitalism","description":"\u003ch3\u003eCritical Theory and the Critique of Society\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eCritical Theory of Social Domination\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eMarxism, The Frankfurt School, and the Critique of Capitalism\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eChris O’Kane | Chris O’Kane | Werner Bonefeld\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhilosophy \/ Social\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Critical Theory of Societal Domination\u003c\/i\u003e offers a major reinterpretation of Frankfurt School Critical Theory and its relation to Marx's critique of political economy. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChallenging the dominant Anglophone narrative that portrays early Horkheimer and late Adorno as pessimistic cultural critics superseded by Habermasian theory or contemporary “Marxism as Critical Theory,” Chris O'Kane reconstructs their work as the foundation of a distinctive, heterodox Marxian critical theory of capitalist social domination.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the centre of the book is the argument that Horkheimer and Adorno developed an immanent, self-reflexive critique of capitalism grounded in Marx's critique of political economy. Far from abandoning political economy or praxis, their critical theory understands capitalist society as a historically specific \u003ci\u003econcrete negative totality\u003c\/i\u003e in which economy, state, culture, family, and subjectivity are internally mediated by the exchange relation. Capitalist domination is thus conceived not as an external force imposed on otherwise emancipatory social spheres, but as a form of objective and subjective domination reproduced through free and equal capitalist social practice itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMoreover the book challenges the view that Horkheimer and Adorno's critical theory was superseded, underlining their influence on the twentieth century's resurgence in Marxian thought by mapping their influence on the work of Alfred Schmidt, Hans-Georg Backhaus, Helmut Rechelt, Moishe Postone and Werner Bonefeld – all thinkers who critically developed this approach into an active research programme in critical theory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFinally, O'Kane outlines this further development of the critical theory of capitalist social domination and demonstrates its central importance for a critical theory of capitalism today by drawing thon the work of these figures and other contemporary critical theorists.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eChris O'Kane is an adjunct associate professor in the  Tobin School of Business at St. John's University, USA\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e18 February 2027\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781350459380\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e240\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e16.0\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51515353399436,"sku":"9781350459380","price":103.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_395790cb-95d5-4682-999c-15c301e08940.jpg?v=1784692566","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9781350459380","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}