The Frankfurt school revisited : and other essays on politics and society / Richard Wolin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wolin, Richard.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Frankfurt school of sociology.

Critical theory.

Physical Description:

xiii, 307 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2006.

Summary:

Frankfurt School thinkers such as Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Jurgen Habermas, and Herbert Marcuse have been enormously influential in a wide range of contemporary public debates. Their writings have remained an invaluable touchstone for controversies in the fields of law, politics, the arts, and cultural studies. Discussions of "postmodernism" regularly mine the theories of Benjamin and Adorno for ideas and inspiration. And the burgeoning field of democratic theory would be inconceivable apart from Habermas's towering influence.

In The Frankfurt School Revisited, Richard Wolin, the eminent political theorist and intellectual historian, reassesses the school's relevance in light of a variety of pressing contemporary issues and concerns including the collapse of communism, the global war on terror, the resurgence-both at home and abroad-of religious fundamentalism, the dislocations of globalization, and the prospect of global democracy. In doing so, Wolin seeks to redeem and reinvigorate the Frankfurt School's rich intellectual legacy.

Contents:

The Frankfurt school revisited

Between Proust and the Zohar : Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project

The Adorno centennial : the apotheosis of negative dialectics

What is Heideggerian Marxism?

Critical reflections on Marcuse's theory of revolution

The lion in winter : Leo Lowenthal and the integrity of the intellectual

Levinas and Heidegger : the anxiety of influence

Karl Jaspers : the paradoxes of Mandarin Humanism

Exiting revolution

What we can learn from the revolutions of 1989

From the "death of man" to human rights : the paradigm change in French intellectual life, 1968-86

The republican revival : reflections on French singularity

Postscript : hexagon fever

What is global democracy?

Religion and public reason : a contemporary debate

The disoriented left : a critique of left Schmittianism

Kant at ground zero : philosophers respond to September 11.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [269]-293) and index.

ISBN:

0415953561

041595357X

OCLC:

62330597

Publisher Number:

9780415953566

9780415953573