Description
"Award-winning literary critic Fredric Jameson explores German philosophy and critical theory as it developed in the wake of World War Two. Focusing on key thinkers - Horkheimer, Adorno, Heidegger, Habermas, Marcuse, Beuys, Enzensberger, Kluge, Sloterdijk, and Luxemburg - Jameson weaves close readings of texts with anecdotes and apercçus to craft a narrative about the uses of theory"-- Provided by publisher.