Realism and critical theory

pp. 77-91

in: William Outhwaite, New philosophies of social science, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 1987

Abstract

The "critical theory" of what came to be called the Frankfurt School has been so fully discussed that there is no point in providing yet another outline history here.¹ I shall be concerned almost entirely with the work of Jürgen Habermas, and I shall refer to the earlier generation of critical theorists only to set the scene for a juxtaposition of Habermas and Bhaskar.