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Rethinking the Frankfurt School : alternative legacies of cultural critique / edited by Jeffrey T. Nealon and Caren Irr.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Frankfurt school of sociology.
- Culture--Philosophy.
- Culture.
- Culture--Study and teaching.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 227 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [2002]
- Summary:
- A reexamination of key Frankfurt School thinkers -- Benjamin, Adorno, Horkheimer, Marcuse -- in the light of contemporary theory and cultural studies across the disciplines, Rethinking the Frankfurt School asks what consequences such a rethinking might have for study of the Frankfurt School on its own terms.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Rethinking the Frankfurt School / Jeffrey T. Nealon, Caren Irr 1
- I The Frankfurt School Today
- 1 The Theoretical Hesitation: Benjamin's Sociological Predecessor / Fredric Jameson 11
- 2 The Frankfurt School and British Cultural Studies: The Missed Articulation / Douglas Kellner 31
- 3 The Limits of Culture: The Frankfurt School and/for Cultural Studies / Imre Szeman 59
- 4 The Frankfurt School and the Political Economy of Communications / Ronald V. Bettig 81
- II Adorno
- 5 Of Mice and Mimesis: Reading Spiegelman with Adorno / Andreas Huyssen 97
- 6 Why Do the Sirens Sing?: Figuring the Feminine in Dialectic of Enlightenment / Nancy Love 111
- 7 On Doing the Adorno Two-Step / Evan Watkins 123
- 8 Maxima Immoralia?: Speed and Slowness in Adorno / Jeffrey T. Nealon 131
- III Benjamin, Horkheimer, Marcuse, Habermas
- 9 The Negative History of the Moment of Possibility: Walter Benjamin and the Coming of the Messiah / Richard A. Lee Jr. 145
- 10 The Frankfurt School and the Domination of Nature: New Grounds for Radical Environmentalism / Kevin DeLuca 153
- 11 One-Dimensional Symptoms: What Marcuse Offers a Critical Theory of Law / Caren Irr 169
- 12 The Offentlichkeit of Jurgen Habermas: The Frankfurt School's Most Influential Concept? / Thomas O. Beebee 187
- 13 The Frankfurt School / Agnes Heller 207.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0791454916
- 0791454922
- OCLC:
- 49823069
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