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# Critical Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

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- **What is this?** Critical Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by stephen eric bronner
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Excellent overview. With good illumination on Adorno.
  

*by B***E on Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2024*

Glad it talked about Adorno’s “Negative Dialectics “. Very clear non-postmodern introduction.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A great entry point to critical theory.
  

*by A***. on Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2018*

This was a perfect addition to my library. I'm in a higher education doctoral program and much of my research leans on critical theory. This book briefly broke down the history and contemporary ideas about critical theory. I while recommend this to any student that needs a quick way to grasp this theory without reading heady articles.

### ⭐ 1.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    An awful introduction to anything
  

*by K***D on Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2015*

This book has so many abstract, obtuse statements as to render it useless for understanding anything.Consider a few illustrative quotes from “What is Critical Theory?”:Critical Theory refuses to identify freedom with any institutional arrangement or fixed system of thought (so Critical Theory must be primarily about freedom?).. This ethical imperative (so Critical Theory is about ethics?) led its primary thinkers to develop a cluster of themes and a new critical method (this “method” goes undefined in the book) that transformed our understanding of society (meaning its freedom?, its ethics?, meaning everything and anything else about it?)… He provided critical theory with its definition of scientific rationality, and its goal of confronting reality with the prospects of freedom (a scientific method which has something to do with freedom that is somehow related to confronting reality?)… They also speculated about the human hopes expressed by aesthetics, the redemptive longings of religions, and new ways of thinking about theory and practice.- So by now we have a scientific method to confront reality, expressed by aesthetics that has something to do with freedom?Much of the book is much too vague and abstract for an introduction - and if you don't already understand what Critical Theory is before reading this book, it's unlikely you'll understand what it is afterwards.  A much BETTER introduction to Critical Theory is “The Devil’s Pleasure Palace”, by Michael Walsh.  The author views Critical Theory as degenerating society’s morals and values – but at least he concretely explains what “Critical Theory” is.

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