--- product_id: 12496441 title: "The Idea of a Critical Theory: Habermas and the Frankfurt School (Modern European Philosophy)" brand: "raymond geuss" price: "VT7920" currency: VUV in_stock: true reviews_count: 4 url: https://www.desertcart.vu/products/12496441-the-idea-of-a-critical-theory-habermas-and-the-frankfurt store_origin: VU region: Vanuatu --- # The Idea of a Critical Theory: Habermas and the Frankfurt School (Modern European Philosophy) **Brand:** raymond geuss **Price:** VT7920 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Idea of a Critical Theory: Habermas and the Frankfurt School (Modern European Philosophy) by raymond geuss - **How much does it cost?** VT7920 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.vu](https://www.desertcart.vu/products/12496441-the-idea-of-a-critical-theory-habermas-and-the-frankfurt) ## Best For - raymond geuss enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted raymond geuss brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description The Idea of a Critical Theory: Habermas and the Frankfurt School (Modern European Philosophy) ## Images ![The Idea of a Critical Theory: Habermas and the Frankfurt School (Modern European Philosophy) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61+gFTrUwjL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐ Gives far too much credit to the college student anti-war ... *by B***H on Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2017* Gives far too much credit to the college student anti-war, pro-civil rights protests of the late '60's in the development of the American contributions to the creation of "critical theory". I was there on several Midwestern campuses and the students barely knew the names of any theoreticians. The concerns and demands I found were very politically specific. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Four Stars *by K***E on Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2015* Good ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ One of the most important books of political philosophy in modern times *by C***E on Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2012* Written in deceptively simple and lucid prose (despite an annoying habit of sprinkling the text with untranslated bits of Greek and, more naturally, German), this absolutely brilliant, extremely profound, very dense little volume belongs on the short shelf of anyone of any political persuasion who cares about politics, political consciousness, ideology, and needless to say, left politics. It's somewhat misadvertised. Despite a good many unelaborated references to Frankfurt school writers (citations to pages in German texts without comment), this is only in the most nominal sense a book about the Frankfurt school. For that, read Thomas McCarthy or Martin Jay, not Guess's intellectual equals but more informative on what Habermas, Adorno, or Horkheimer actually said. It's an original exercise in critical theory inspired, somewhat distantly IMHO, by someone deeply steeped in the Frankfurt School and Marxian theory. To my way of thinking it is vastly superior to any of its nominal models or subjects, but I also don't pretend to understand Adorno at all. As an explication of the concepts of ideology and _ideologiekritik_ it has no peer, likewise as an account of the way critical theory is supposed to be linked to praxis. (As in "The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.") Geuss is, stylistically, an inheritor of the best of high octane analytical philosophy (Columbia grad school, time at Princeton, Chicago, now at Cambridge), without the tedious a prioristic prejudices and love of jargon that have routed analytical philosophy onto a dead-end railway track. Politically he tilts rather more heavily to pessimism of the intellect than optimism of the will, but that may be part of what drew him to the Frankfurters in the first place. Intolerant of sloppy thing, double-talk and gobbledygook, ruthless towards careless argument, gifted with an ability to cut to the chase, Geuss, here and in other works, is the rare philosopher/political thinker who can be read with profit (pardon the metaphor in the context)by the general reader. I'd say this is one of the half dozen most significant books in my own intellectual development. I have probably read it 25 times, and that is not enough. Full disclosure: Guess was my senior thesis adviser in college many many years ago. I'm not sure how well we got on. I cannot say we we were close. He gave my (late) senior thesis a B-, which was more than it deserved. But this is a fabulous book. Put it at the top of your reading list. 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