compiled by Ralph Dumain

Adorno, Theodor W.  Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, edited by Rolf Tiedemann, translated by Rodney Livingstone. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. See excerpt from Lecture Six, 9 June 1959, Enlightenment, pp. 62-64, remarks on Kant, the division of labor & restriction of reason.

Adorno, Theodor W. "Marginalia to Theory and Praxis", in Critical Models: Interventions and Catchwords, translated and with a preface by Henry W. Pickford. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998), pp. 259-278, notes 378-383.

Adorno, Theodor W. Metaphysics: Concept and Problems [lecture series, 1965], edited by Rolf Tiedemann, translated by Edmund Jephcott (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000), pp. 124-126 (from Lecture 16, 22 July 1965). See excerpt from this excerpt: Adorno on Truth, Survival, Consolation & Freedom of Thought.

Adorno, Theodore W. Problems of Moral Philosophy, edited by Thomas Schröder, translated by Rodney Livingstone (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001). See remarks on theory and practice, pp. 3-8.

Adorno, Theodor W. “Resignation”, in Critical Models: Interventions and Catchwords, translated by Henry W. Pickford (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998), pp. 289-293. See excerpts.

Bernstein, Richard J. Praxis and Action: Contemporary Philosophies of Human Activity. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1971.

Browning, Gary K. Rethinking R. G. Collingwood: Philosophy, Politics and the Unity of Theory and Practice. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Dubiel, Helmut. Theory and Politics: Studies in the Development of Critical Theory, translated by Benjamin Gregg, with an introduction by Martin Jay. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1985. (See also extract The Philosophical Critique of Science and the Neopositivist Critique of Philosophy in the Weimar Republic.)

Fink, Leon, et al, eds. Intellectuals and Public Life: Between Radicalism and Reform, edited by Leon Fink, Stephen T. Leonard, and Donald M. Reid. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996. xii, 327 pp. See also Lloyd Kramer, below.

Gouldner, Alvin W. Against Fragmentation: The Origins of Marxism and the Sociology of Intellectuals. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. See final paragraph, p. 299: Alvin Gouldner on Intellectuals & the Social Totality.

Gouldner, Alvin W. The Dialectic of Ideology and Technology: The Origins, Grammar, and Future of Ideology. New York: Seabury Press, 1976. (The Dark Side of the Dialectic; v. 1) See chapter 2: Ideological Discourse as Rationality and False Consciousness.

Gouldner, Alvin W. The Future of Intellectuals and the Rise of the New Class: A Frame of Reference, Theses, Conjectures, Arguments, and an Historical Perspective on the Role of Intellectuals and Intelligentsia in the International Class Contest of the Modern Era. New York: Seabury Press, 1979. (Dark Side of the Dialectic; v. 2) (See excerpts: Alvin Gouldner on the New Class & the Culture of Critical Discourse.)

Gouldner, Alvin W. “The Politics of the Mind”, in: For Sociology: Renewal and Critique in Sociology Today (New York: Basic Books, 1973), pp. 82-127. See section titled “Theory and Ideology”, pp. 115-123. 

Habermas, Jürgen. Theory and Practice. Translated by John Viertel. Boston: Beacon Press, 1973. See especially "Introduction: Some Difficulties in the Attempt to Link Theory and Praxis" (1971) (pp. 1-40), particularly the section "Historical remarks on the question of organization", pp. 32-37.

Kramer, Lloyd. "Habermas, Foucault, and the Legacy of Enlightenment Intellectuals", in: Intellectuals and Public Life: Between Radicalism and Reform, edited by Leon Fink, Stephen T. Leonard, Donald M. Reid (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996), chapter 2: pp. 29-50.

Lobkowitcz, N. "Is the Soviet Notion of Practice Marxian?", Studies in Soviet Thought, vol. 6, no. 1, March 1966, pp. 25-36.

Lobkowicz, Nikolaus. Theory and Practice: History of a Concept from Aristotle to Marx. Notre Dame : University of Notre Dame Press, 1967. (International Studies of the Committee on International Relations, University of Notre Dame)

Marcuse, Herbert. "Philosophy and Critical Theory," in Negations: Essays in Critical Theory, with translations from the German by Jeremy J. Shapiro (Boston: Beacon Press, 1968), pp. 134-158. See excerpt on Philosophy and Class Society), pp. 147-154.

Marcuse, Herbert. "The Relevance of Reality," presidential address to the Pacific Branch of the American Philosophical Association in Portland, OR, March 29, 1969. Published in: Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 42 (1968-9), pp. 39-50. Reprinted in: The Owl of Minerva: Philosophers on Philosophy, edited by Charles J. Bontempo and S. Jack Odell (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1975), pp. 231-244.

Markus, Gyorgy. "After the ‘System’: Philosophy in the Age of the Sciences," in: Science, Politics, and Social Practice: Essays on Marxism and Science, Philosophy of Culture and the Social Sciences: In Honor of Robert S. Cohen, edited by Kostas Gavroglu, John Stachel, Marx W. Wartofsky (Dordrecht; Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995), pp. 139-159. (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science; v. 164) See extract: pp. 144-151.

Marx, Karl. Philosophy after Its Completion, in Writings of the Young Marx on Philosophy and Society, translated and edited by Loyd D. Easton and Kurt H. Guddat (Garden City, NY: Doubleday [Anchor Books], 1967), pp. 60-64. An extract from Marx's doctoral dissertation, Difference between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature, Notes; Part One; IV: General difference in principle between the Democritean and Epicurean philosophy of nature. See also Marx's Notebooks on Epicurean Philosophy (Extracts from Notebooks 6 & 7 on Total Philosophy, Praxis, Historiography).

Marx, Karl. Science, Society, and Life: Extract from "Private Property and Communism" from the Economic-Philosophical Manuscripts of Karl Marx (1844).

Mohanty, J. N. "Theory And Practice In Indian Philosophy," in: Explorations in Philosophy: Essays by J.N. Mohanty. Volume 1: Indian Philosophy; edited by Bina Gupta (New Delhi; Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2001); pp. 19-34.

Perlman, Fredy. The Incoherence of the Intellectual: C. Wright Mills’ Struggle to Unite Knowledge and Action. Detroit: Black & Red, 1970.

Rosen, Stanley; Kolar, Heinz, commentator. "Theory and Practice in Hegel: Union or Disunion?", in: Hegel's Social and Political Thought: The Philosophy of Objective Spirit [Papers from the 4th biennial conference of the Hegel Society of America, 1976], ed. Donald Phillip Verene (Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1980), pp. 35-46, 47-52.

Rozos, George T. Dialectic of Action. Athens: "Hestia" Publishers & Booksellers, 1994.

Shapiro, Ian; DeCew, Judith Wagner; eds. Theory and Practice. New York: New York University Press, 1995. (NOMOS, XXXVII) [Papers & commentaries read at the Annual Maeeting of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, held in conjunction with the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association in Washington, D.C., in Dec. 1992.]

Stepelevich, Lawrence S.; Lamb, David; eds. Hegel's Philosophy of Action. [Papers delivered at the joint meeting of the Hegel Society of America and the Hegel Society of Great Britain held at Merton College, Oxford, Sept. 1-4, 1981.] Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1983.

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