Understanding Critical Theory: Origins, Characteristics, and Notable Figures
Exploring the origins, characteristics, and influential authors of Critical Theory, a sociopolitical framework developed in the 1930s as a response to societal issues.
00:00:00 The video explores the origins, characteristics, and key figures of critical theory, a sociopolitical and philosophical framework developed in the 1930s as a response to positivism. It focuses on explaining the negative dynamics of contemporary society, including totalitarianism.
📚 The critical theory emerged as a response to positivism and focuses on the negative aspects of contemporary society.
👥 It explores the social relationships between individuals and their environment.
👨🏫 Key representatives of critical theory include Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Max Horkheimer, Jürgen Habermas, and Eric Fromm.
00:01:32 Discover the origins, characteristics, and influential authors of Critical Theory, a school of thought that emerged in Germany in the 1930s as a response to economic crises and the rise of totalitarian regimes.
📚 The Frankfurt School, led by Max Horkheimer, shifted towards critical theory, challenging traditional theoretical models.
💡 The period between the two World Wars was characterized by economic crisis, the rise of monopolistic corporations, and the threat of communism and National Socialism.
🌍 The Institute for Social Research was closed by the Nazis in 1933, and its members relocated to Geneva and then New York, receiving support from Columbia University.
00:03:05 Discover the origins, characteristics, and notable figures of Critical Theory, a tool for analyzing and transforming society beyond Marxism.
📚 The Frankfurt School formed after World War II and developed critical theory as a tool for societal transformation.
🔍 Critical theory analyzes late capitalism, focusing on commodification, objectification, and critique of mass culture.
💡 Marxism and psychoanalysis intersect in the Frankfurt School's quest to understand social relations.
00:04:39 The video discusses the concept of Critical Theory, its historical origins, characteristics, and representative authors, emphasizing its critical stance towards society and science's transformative role.
🔑 The critical theory combines psychoanalysis and Marxist concepts.
🌍 The critical theory emphasizes the transformative role of science in society.
🎭 The Frankfurt School explores the impact of mass culture on art and society.
00:06:15 This video explores the historical origins, characteristics, and representative authors of Critical Theory, focusing on Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno.
📚 The video discusses the origins and characteristics of Critical Theory.
👥 Max Horkheimer is considered the initiator and main promoter of Critical Theory.
📚 Theodor Adorno was another significant representative of the Frankfurt School and made important contributions to Critical Theory.
00:07:52 The video discusses the origin, characteristics, and representative authors of Critical Theory. It includes Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse, and Eric Fromm.
📚 The Theory of Critique is a concept that originated in Germany in the 1970s and has been associated with the Frankfurt School.
👥 Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse, and Eric Fromm are notable representatives of the Theory of Critique.
💡 Key works in the Theory of Critique include 'The Origin of German Baroque Drama,' 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,' and 'One-Dimensional Man.'
00:09:26 This video discusses the origins, characteristics, and representative authors of Critical Theory, a philosophical and sociological movement. It mentions works by Jürgen Habermas and his contributions to the second generation of the Frankfurt School.
📚 The video discusses the concept of Critical Theory, its historical origins, and its key characteristics.
🔍 Jürgen Habermas, a philosopher and sociologist, is recognized as the leading figure of the second generation of the Frankfurt School.
💡 Habermas' notable works include 'Knowledge and Human Interests', 'The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity', and 'Facticity and Validity'.
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