Ben Agger

  • Ben Agger
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Abstract

I want to get a sense of your intellectual formation — who you worked with, your discipline, your disciplinary training. Then, the primary thing I’m interested in is your first encounters with the Frankfurt School and with postmodernism.

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Public Sphere Critical Theory Public Sociology Sociology Department Frankfurt School 
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