Verso The Philosophy of Praxis: Marx, Lukacs and the Frankfurt School

'Philosophy of Praxis' examines the work of four Marxist thinkers, the early Marx and Lukacs, and the Frankfurt School philosophers Adorno and Marcuse. The book holds that fundamental philosophical problems are in reality social problems, abstractly conceived. This argument has two implications: on the one hand, philosophical problems are significant insofar as they reflect real social contradictions; on the other hand, philosophy cannot resolve the problems it identifies because only social revolution can eliminate their social causes. Feenberg's 'Lukacs, Marx and the Sources of Critical Theory' was an intellectual history of these discussions. 'Philosophy of Praxis' is an update of that classic theoretical work, which details how the discussion has been taken up by contemporary schools of thought, including Marxist political theory and continental philosophy. Review A model of lucid and sophisticated intellectual history. --Martin Jay, University of California, Berkeley Feenberg achieves his goal of demonstrating the relevance of seemingly dusty and abstract philosophical conundrums not only to contemporary social theory but to politics as well. --The American Political Science Review Poses the central problem of history in such a way that every reader can identify its elements…. The author knows the subject thoroughly, and illuminates many points in the texts of his main authors, as well as in those of such subsidiary figures as Marcuse and Habermas. --The Review of Metaphysics About the Author Andrew Feenberg is a professor at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada.