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The modernist imagination : intellectual history and critical theory : essays in honor of Martin Jay / edited by Warren Breckman ... [et al.].
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History--Philosophy.
- History.
- Intellectual life--Historiography.
- Intellectual life.
- Critical theory.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (457 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Some of the most exciting and innovative work in the humanities currently takes place at the intersection of intellectual history and critical theory. Just as critical theorists are becoming more aware of the historicity of theory, contemporary practitioners of modern intellectual history are recognizing their potential contributions to theoretical discourse. No one has done more than Martin Jay to realize the possibilities for mutual enrichment between intellectual history and critical theory. This carefully selected collection of essays addresses central questions and current practices of in
- Contents:
- Title page-The Modernist Imagination; Contents; Figures; Preface; Martin Jay and the Dialectics of Intellectual History; Part I-Intellectual History; ""The Kiss of Lamourette""; Selves Without Qualities?; Liberty and the ""Coming-Into-Being"" of Natural Law; The Artwork Beyond Itself; Marxism and Alterity; The Return of the King; Paradign Shift; Part II-Violence, Memory, Identity; Memory Culture at an Impasse; Against Grandiloquence; Paris, Capital of Anti-Fascism; Toward a Critique of Violence; Democratization, Turks, and the Burden of German History
- West German Generations and the GewaltfragePart III-Critical Theory and Global Politics; From ""The Dialectic of Enlightenment"" to ""The Origins of Totalitarianism"" and the Genocide Convention; The Anti-Totalitarian Ledt between Morality and Politics; Sovereign Equality vs. Imperial Right; The Myths of Modern Identity as Ersatz Ideologies; Part IV-Coda; Ten Questions for Martin Jay; Publications of Martin Jay; Doctoral Students Directed by Martin Jay; Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- "Publications of Martin Jay": p. [393]-403.
- ISBN:
- 1-80758-634-0
- 1-282-62744-9
- 9786612627446
- 1-84545-881-8
- OCLC:
- 645099879
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