Publication

2019 - BRILL

Language

English

Word Count

45,750 words, Guess

Page Count

183 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139789004349414
  • ISBN-109004349413
  • Library of Congress Control Number2019026363
  • OCLC Control Number1101352756
  • Better World Books9789004349414
and 1 more

Classifications

  • LCCB3192.P4813 2019
  • LCCB3192 .P4813 2020

Description

"Alongside the 'critical theory' of the Frankfurt School, West Germany was also home to another influential Marxist currently known as the Marburg School. In this volume, Marburg disciple Lothar Peter traces the school's history and situates it in the political discourse and developments of its time. The renowned political scientist Wolfgang Abendroth plays a large role, but unlike most histories of the Marburg School Peter also takes the sociologists Werner Hofmann and Heinz Maus into account as well as their many students and successors. They were united by the conviction that teaching and scholarship must necessarily be tied to the practical goal of transforming society - an approach that met with considerable opposition in the harshly anti-Communist atmosphere of the period"--

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