No social science without critical theory

• Other Authors: Dahms, Harry F.
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley : JAI, 2008.
• Series: Current perspectives in social theory ; v. 25.
• Subjects: Frankfurt school of sociology.; Critical theory.; Social theory.; Social Science > Sociology > General.

Since the linguistic turn in Frankfurt School critical theory during the 1970s, philosophical concerns have become increasingly important to its overall agenda, at the expense of concrete social-scientific inquiries. At the same time, each of the individual social sciences especially economics and p...