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On Basic Critical Theory

This Pass or Prepared? is based on p. 13-17 of Contemporary Social Theory. Anthony Elliott, editor. Blackwell Publishers. 1999.

Answer the following questions based on your reading of this section:

  1. Where and when was critical theory founded? (p. 13)

  2. Who is the key exponent of critical theory, as led by the Frankfurt School, today? (p. 13)

  3. On what basic issues was the Frankfurt School founded? (pp. 13-17)

  4. What did Horkheimer and Adorno conclude about the Enlightenment? (p. 13-14)

  5. How does the Frankfurt School link conceptually to Fellman's paradigms of adversarialism and mutuality?

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