PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTIONS

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THE PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTIONS

SOCIAL THEORY

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Who said:"modernity is an unfinished project in its potential for accomplishing human freedom, namely through the transformation of the competitive system of separate states into a global community".
A
Andrew Linklater
B
Robert Cox
C
Jürgen Habermas
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Max Horkheimer first defined critical theory (German: Kritische Theorie) in his 1937 essay “Traditional and Critical Theory", as a social theory oriented toward critiquing and changing society as a whole, in contrast to traditional theory oriented only toward understanding or explaining it.

Detailed explanation-2: -Marcuse’s critical theory ccmbined features of eudaemonism with the hedonistic protest against the repression of sensuality. He argued that some needs are better satisfied than others and that individual happiness cannot be separated from the creation of a rational society.

Detailed explanation-3: -Some of the most prominent figures of the first generation of Critical Theorists were Max Horkheimer (1895-1973), Theodor Adorno (1903-1969), Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979), Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), Friedrich Pollock (1894-1970), Leo Lowenthal (1900-1993), and Eric Fromm (1900-1980).

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