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On Herbert Marcuse’s 1974 Paris Lectures

October 9, 2015

Key Series: Critical Theory, the Crisis of Social Philosophy, Advancing the Frankfurt School In 2014, Herbert Marcuse's 1974 manuscripts were discovered by Peter-Erwin Jansen in the Marcuse archive at the Un... Read More...

Toward a Critical Theory of Education

Douglas Kellner

September 16, 2015

Key series: Critical Pedagogy and Alternative Education By Douglas Kellner It is surely not difficult to see that our time is a time of birth and transition to a new period. The spirit has broken with what ... Read More...

Review: Questioning Technology

Douglas Kellner

July 17, 2015

Key Series: Critical Theory of Information, Communication, Media, Culture and Technology Andrew Feenberg Questioning Technology 264 pp. - $24.99 New York and London: Routledge, 1999 ... Read More...

Critical Perspectives on Television from the Frankfurt School to Postmodernism

Douglas Kellner

June 18, 2015

Key Series: Critical Theory of Information, Communication, Media, Culture and Technology By Douglas Kellner Paul Lazarsfeld (1942), one of the originators of modern communications studies, distinguished b... Read More...

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Engaging Media Spectacle

Douglas Kellner

April 16, 2015

Key Series: Critical Theory of Information, Communication, Media, Culture and Technology By Doug Kellner In the contemporary era, media spectacle organizes and mobilizes economic life, political conflict,... Read More...

Doug Kellner | Youth, Media Spectacle and New Media

Douglas Kellner

April 6, 2015

Douglas Kellner is one of the most important third generation critical theorists in the tradition of the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research. Kellner was an early theorist of the field of critical media... Read More...

From 1984 to One-Dimensional Man: Critical Reflections on Orwell and Marcuse

Douglas Kellner

January 5, 2015

Publisher's note: This paper was first presented at the American Political Science Association Convention in August 1984. Although 30 years have passed since it was originally presented, Doug Kellner's analysis... Read More...

T.W. Adorno and the Dialectics of Mass Culture

Douglas Kellner

September 3, 2014

Key Series: Critical Theory of Information, Communication, Media, Culture and Technology By Doug Kellner While T.W. Adorno is a lively figure on the contemporary cultural scene, his thought in many ways cut... Read More...

Critical Theory and the Crisis of Social Theory

Douglas Kellner

March 18, 2014

Key Series: Critical Theory, the Crisis of Social Philosophy, Advancing the Frankfurt School By Douglas Kellner Social theory today is in crisis. During the 1960s, a variety of new theoretical paradigms e... Read More...

The Hidden Curricula of Education – Douglas Kellner

Douglas Kellner

February 27, 2014

Key Series: Critical Pedagogy and Alternative Education Douglas Kellner, George F. Kneller Philosophy of Education Chair at UCLA and well-known researcher in the field of critical theory, describes the hid... Read More...

Critical Theory and Society – A Reader

Douglas Kellner

February 19, 2014

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Erich Fromm, Feminism, and the Frankfurt School

Douglas Kellner

October 21, 2013

Key Series: Critical Theory, the Crisis of Social Philosophy, Advancing the Frankfurt School By Douglas Kellner Erich Fromm is one of the few members of the Frankfurt School who seriously engaged himself ... Read More...

Cultural Studies and Social Theory: A Critical Intervention

Douglas Kellner

October 12, 2013

Key Series: Race, Class, Gender, Ability: Cultural Studies and Critical Intersections By Doug Kellner Within the traditions of critical social theory and cultural criticism, there are many models of cultu... Read More...

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