Modernism and the Frankfurt School / Tyrus Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Tyrus, 1963- author.

Series:

Edinburgh critical studies in modernist culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Frankfurt school of sociology.

Modernism (Aesthetics).

Physical Description:

viii, 179 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2014.

Summary:

Tyrus Miller's book offers readers a focused introduction to the Frankfurt School's important attempts to relate the social, political and philosophical conditions of modernity to, innovations in twentieth-century art, literature and culture. The book pursues this interaction of modernity and modernist aesthetics in a two-sided, dialectical approach. Not only, Miller suggests, can the Frankfurt School's penetrating critical analyses of the phenomena of modernity help us develop more nuanced, historically informed and contextually sensitive analyses of modernist culture, but modernist culture also provides a field of problems, examples and practices that intimately affected the formation of the Frankfurt School's theoretical ideas. The individual chapters, which include detailed discussions of Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse as well as a survey of later thinkers influenced by the Frankfurt. Schooled discuss the ideas of a given figure with an emphasis on particular artistic media or contexts: Benjamin with lyric poetry and architecture as urban art forms; Adorno with music; Marcuse with the liberationist art performances and happenings of the 1960s. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Modernism and the Frankfurt School 1

2 Walter Benjamin 35

3 Theodor Adorno 77

4 Herbert Marcuse 114

5 The New Wave: Modernism and Modernity in the Later Frankfurt School 147.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780748640188

0748640185

OCLC:

872980157