The Terms of Cultural Criticism: The Frankfurt School, Existentialism, Poststructuralism

By Richard Wolin

Book Overview

Despite their differences in origin, the three influential schools of twentieth-century continental cultural criticism--the Frankfurt School, existentialism, and poststructuralism--have long been treated as an ensemble and with critical hesitancy. Examining these schools as responses to the apparent collapse of Western civilization in the twentieth-century and as formidable intellectual challenges to the cultural legacies of the Enlightenment, this book provides a productive base for criticism and broadens our understanding of their histories and reception.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231076657
• ISBN13: 9780231076654
• Release Date: April 1995
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher