The Frankfurt School: Horkheimer, Habermas and Religion
Religion and Marxism - An Introduction - Paul-Francois Tremlett
Paul-Francois Tremlett [+]
Open University
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Paul-François Tremlett is a Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at the Open University in the UK. He was awarded his PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. He is currently interested in processes of rapid social change and intersections of politics and religion.
Description
This chapter introduces the Frankfurt School and Horkheimer and Habermas, particularly the concept of critical theory and Habermas’s twin notions of the lifeworld communicative action as resources for re-energising modernity.