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FOTIS TERZAKIS
Interpretations on the Frankfurt School

ISBN: 978-960-221-422-0
Dimensions: 21X14
Pages: 189
Published: 2009
Price: 16,00 €

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"The very complicity of metaphysical thought with society's institutional system seriously undermined its claim to independence, revealing the shared intention to subordinate the open becoming of the world to the sphere of logico-administrative control. Against such an impasse, only extremely complex strategies, unusually inspired and desperately courageous, may survive. Critical Theory represented perhaps the last major attempt of thought in the 20^th century, not only to rescue itself, but to rescue with it, integral and redeemed, the world itself."

Resulting from the author's long-standing preoccupation with the Frankfurt School, the essays in this volume offer an original interpretation of various themes and approaches (philosophy of language, nature and civilization, law and violence, interdisciplinary materialism, dialectical images, negative dialectics, anti-semitism and sionism, philosophy of liberation) introduced by such major thinkers as M. Horkheimer, Th.W. Adorno, W. Benjamin and H. Marcuse. In doing so, they point to the underlying unity of Critical Theory and try out some of its strategies in confronting problems of our own present.

Fotis Terzakis was born in Patras in 1959. He has been involved in various publishing ventures and worked as book critic in major newspapers. In 2005 he founded the Center for Intercultural Studies. He has taught and published extensively in the areas of philosophy, political science, aesthetic theory and religious studies.

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