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Critical Theory and Symbolic Thinking

Critical Theory and Symbolic Thinking

Hardcover

Philosophy

ISBN10: 3031914120
ISBN13: 9783031914126
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: May 29 2025
Pages: 270
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

This book interprets axial cultural symbols, specific cultural symbolic organizations, and symbolic constellations in the context of Critical Theory and its negative dialectic. It engages the origins, structures, weaknesses, and possibilities of symbolic thinking, and incorporates ideas from a range of thinkers, including Hegel, Nietzsche, Marx, Adorno, Horkheimer, and Benjamin, among others. The book charts a new way of looking at the role of philosophy in culture, and provides tools for a new insight in the history of the formation of the consciousness of symbolic thought within philosophy itself. Furthermore, it shows how practically useful symbolic thinking can become in the practices of philosophical diplomacy, the processes of communication, mutual understanding and the formation of contemporary political and cultural discourse.

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