The Critical Humanism of the Frankfurt School as Social Critique

Kozlarek's remarkable book provides us with a comprehensive recovery of the complex deployments of 'human' in the Critical Theory tradition (including the work of Bol�var Echeverr�a). So armed with a rejuvenated Critical Humanism, he mounts a provocatively significant challenge to both anti-humanist intellectual currents and the dehumanizing consequences of neoliberalism. --Paul K. Jones, Australian National University, author of Raymond Williams's Sociology of Culture and Critical Theory and Demagogic Populism This is a book with potential to deeply re-orient the tradition of critical theory. Kozlarek's idea of a critical humanism as a paradigm for a committed form of social critique compels us to link critical theory with ethical and political action and place philosophy into engaged contact with the world. Kozlarek shows us that humanism is the true basis of critical theory, It is an overdue intervention that needs to be read by all who are committed to the critical project. --Michael J. Thompson, Associate Professor of Political Science, William Paterson University