Emancipation and History: The Return of Social Theory

To understand global modernity. In Emancipation and History, sociologist José Maurício Domingues assesses contemporary critical theory, not restricting himself to the Frankfurt School tradition and its developments, but assuming that other authors and currents within it are broadly situated, sharing some common assumptions. Furthermore, he draws connections between history and emancipation, focusing on the trends that structure modernity and can take us beyond it. In this book, classical and contemporary sociologies and social theory are mobilized to recover a robust theory capable of transcending empirical perspectives in emancipatory thought. The reader will also encounter a free and creative dialogue with Karl Marx and the Marxist tradition, especially important on the bicentenary of the thinker's birth.