Bøker av David Held

Presents an introduction to, and evaluation of, critical theory. This book concerns itself with the thought of the Frankfurt school - Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse and Habermas. It includes critical theory's relation to Marx's critique of the political economy, Freudian psychoanalysis, aesthetics, and the philosophy of history.

The world is becoming deeply interconnected, whereby actions in one part of the world can have profound repercussions elsewhere. In a world of overlapping communities of fate, there has been a renewed enthusiasm for thinking about what it is that human beings have in common, and to explore the ethical basis of this.