Confronting mass democracy and industrial technology : political and social theory from Nietzsche to Habermas / edited by John P. McCormick.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McCormick, John P., 1966-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political science--Germany.

Political science.

Germany.

Social sciences--Philosophy.

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

368 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2002.

Contents:

Love, passion, and maturity: Nietzsche and Weber on science, morality, and politics / Tracy B. Strong

Post-utopian Marxism: Lukács and the dilemmas of organization / Andrew Feenberg

Herbert Marcuse: a critical retrospective from Berlin to Berkeley / Richard Wolin

History lesson on the S-bahn: Brecht's cartography of capital / Richard Dienst

The Geist in the machine: Freud, the uncanny, and technology / Gia Pascarelli

The soul in the age of society and technology: Helmuth Plessner's defensive liberalism / Jan-Werner Müller

Leviathan in the 1930s: the reception of Hobbes in the Third Reich / David Dyzenhaus

Revisionism and orthodoxy: Stalinism and political thought in the German Democratic Republic's founding decade / Peter C. Caldwell

Unsolved paradoxes: conservative political thought in Adenauer's Germany / William E. Scheuerman

Destruktion or recovery?: Leo Strauss's critique of Heidegger / Steven B. Smith

A critical versus genealogical "questioning" of technology: notes on how not to read Adorno and Horkheimer / John P. McCormick

Provocation and appropriation: Hannah Arendt's response to Martin Heidegger / Richard J. Bernstein

Disembodying democracy: gendered discourse in Habermas's legalistic turn / Nancy S. Love

Reversing the dialectic of enlightenment: the reenchantment of the world / Seyla Benhabib.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0822327783

0822327880

OCLC:

47893690