Further Reading

The best introduction to dialectical thought (although it might be difficult to find) is Henri Lefebvre’s Dialectical Materialism (1968), and perhaps all students should attempt to read Hegel’s preface to the Phenomenology of the Spirit (Hegel 1807, 1977). There is no easy reading on critical theory, but the best overall account is David Held’s Introduction to Critical Theory (1980); of the original texts we would suggest Adorno’s Prisms (1967) and Minima Moralia (1974) and Horkheimer’s Critical Theory (1972); it is worth attempting Habermas’s Knowledge and Human Interests (1986). William Outhwaite’s Habermas: A Critical Introduction (1994) provides an excellent entry to his work.