Critical Theory of Communication: New Readings of Lukács, Adorno, Marcuse, Honneth and Habermas in the Age of the Internet
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1. Introduction: Critical Theory of Communication: New Readings of Lukács, Adorno, Marcuse, Honneth and Habermas in the Age of the Internet
1.1. What is Critical Theory?
1.2. Critical Theory and Karl Marx
1.3. The Frankfurt School
1.4. Linking the Frankfurt School and other Critical Theories: Lev Vygotsky, Valentin Vološinov, Ferruccio Rossi-Landi, and Raymond Williams
1.5. The Frankfurt School and Martin Heidegger’s Philosophy
1.6. The Chapters in this Book
2. Georg Lukács as a Communications Scholar: Cultural and Digital Labour in the Context of Lukács’ Ontology of Social Being
2.1. Introduction
2.2. Work and Communication
2.3. Labour and Ideology
2.4. Conclusion
3. Theodor W. Adorno and the Critical Theory of Knowledge
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Adorno – A Media Pessimist?
3.3. Lukács and Adorno: The Theory of Art and Knowledge
3.4. The Dialectics of Knowledge
3.5. Conclusion
4. Herbert Marcuse and Social Media
4.1. Introduction
4.2. Herbert Marcuse and the Computer
4.3. Herbert Marcuse, Hegelian Dialectics and Social Media
4.4. Herbert Marcuse and Digital Labour on Social Media
4.5. Herbert Marcuse, Ideology and Social Media
4.6. Herbert Marcuse, the Logic of Essence and Social Media
4.7. Conclusion
5. The Internet, Social Media and Axel Honneth’s Interpretation of Georg Lukács’ Theory of Reification and Alienation
5.1. Introduction
5.2. Lukács’ Theory of Reification and Alienation
5.3. Axel Honneth’s Interpretation of Lukács’ Concept of Reification in the Critical Theory of Recognition
5.4. Towards a Materialist Theory of Morality as Theory of Co-operation and Social Co-Production
5.5. The Media, Alienation and Morality
5.6. Conclusion
6. Beyond Habermas: Rethinking Critical Theories of Communication
6.1. Introduction
6.2. Economic Reductionism: Alfred Sohn-Rethel
6.3. Cultural Reductionism: Jean Baudrillard
6.4. Labour/Communication Dualism: Jürgen Habermas
6.5. Towards a Dialectic of Labour and Communication: Lev Vygotsky, Valentin Vološinov, Ferruccio Rossi-Landi, Raymond Williams
6.6. Towards a Dialectical Critical Theory of Communication
7. Conclusion
7.1. The Starting Point: Karl Marx
7.2. Georg Lukács: Teleological Positing
7.3. Theodor W. Adorno: The Dialectics of Knowledge
7.4. Herbert Marcuse: The Meta-Dialectic and the Dialectical Logic of Essence
7.5. Axel Honneth Revisits Lukács’ History and Class Consciousness: The Critical Theory of Recognition, Alienation and Reification
7.6. Beyond Jürgen Habermas’ Critical Theory of Communication
7.7. Towards a Dialectical Critical Theory of Communication
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