The Internationalization of Critical Theory : Frankfurt School Receptions in Europe, the Americas and East Asia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abromeit, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Critical theory.

Frankfurt school of sociology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (375 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2026.

Summary:

From Walter Benjamin in Argentina to Theodor Adorno in Japan, this collection brings together leading scholars of Critical Theory to examine the impact of the Frankfurt School across global histories of the 20th century.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Parameters and Methodological Assumptions of the Project

Local Diversity in the Receptions

Some Common Themes That Emerge Across the Different Receptions

Commonalities in the Local Receptions as Responses to Broader Historical Tendencies

Part I: Latin America

Chapter 1: The Reception of Critical Theory in Brazil: From Dictatorship to Redemocratization

Chapter 2: Frankfurt's Critical Theory in Chile: Process and Generations: The Reception of the First Generation from the 1960s Until Today

1Presentation

First Generation of the Frankfurt School in Chile: Multiple Receptions

Traditional Theory and Critical Theory

Authority and Family

The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility

Escape from Freedom

Dialectic of Enlightenment

Minima Moralia

Eros and Civilization

One-Dimensional Man

Some Concluding Points

Chapter 3: Translation, Exception: Walter Benjamin in Argentina

Introduction: Transmission and Politics

Post-Auratic Art and Mass Politics

Translation as Redemption

Commitment or Avant-Garde

Alternative Modernities in Debate

A Marxism of Adversity

Memory and Experience: Benjamin in the E.S.M.A.

Coda-(R)exception

Chapter 4: Critical Theory on Mexican Ground

Mexico: Fertile Ground for Exile

The Foundation of the Institute for Social Research of Frankfurt and the Model of Early Critical Theory

Fromm and Humanist Psychoanalysis: The Lasting Mark of Critical Theory in Mexico

Fromm and Marcuse in Mexico: The Story of a Disagreement

Part II: East Asia

Chapter 5: The Politics of Critical Theory: The Translation of the Frankfurt School in South Korea

The Beginnings of Critical Theory in Korea.

Critical Social Theory of Authoritarianism in the 1970s

Marxism and Democratization Movements in the 1980s

Post-Democratization Discourse in the 1990s

The Cultural Turn of Critical Theory in the 2000s

The New Generation of Critical Theorists and Postcolonial Questions

Coda

Acknowledgment

Chapter 6: The Reception of the Frankfurt School in China from 1978 to the Present

The Criticism of Modernity and the Pursuit of Subjectivity: The First Stage of Chinese Reception of the Frankfurt School

Negative Dialectics and the Public Sphere: A New Focus in the New Century

A New Stage in the Reception of the Frankfurt School in China: 2015-present

Conclusion

Chapter 7: The Reception and Development of Frankfurt Critical Theory in Japan

From Postwar Reform to Mass Society-Erich Fromm: 1945-65

Youth Rebellion and Its Defeat-Herbert Marcuse: 1965-80

The Bubble Economy and Its Collapse-Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno: 1975-90

Confrontation with Conservatism-Jürgen Habermas: 1980-95

Development of Neoliberalism and Its Critiques-the Third Generation of the Frankfurt School: 1990-2010

From the Rise of Authoritarianism to the Present-American Critical Theory: 2010-Present

Part III: Europe

Chapter 8: Critical Theory in Spain: A Reception in the Shadow of Habermas

The Beginning of the Reception

The Political Reception of Herbert Marcuse

Horkheimer and Adorno, Read from Within Habermas's Parameters

The Appropriation of Habermas by Spanish Social Democracy

Dissatisfaction with Social Democracy and the Gradual Questioning of Habermas

Ambivalences in the Current Situation of the Reception of Critical Theory

General Assessment: A Reception in Which More Is at Stake Than Theoretical Arguments

Chapter 9: The Paths of Marcuse and Adorno in France.

The Work of the Scientific Journals

Marcuse, the Philosopher of the Student Revolt

Adorno-Not So "Unhappy" in France

A WIDER RECEPTION TO COME?

Chapter 10: Critical Theory in Italy, 1954-2000

"Minima Moralia" and the Early Reception of Adorno

The Golden Age of Critical Theory in Italy, 1966-80

Critical Theory After the Crisis of Marxism

Chapter 11: Productive Tensions: The Development of Feminist Critical Theory in Germany

Feminist Responses to Representations of Femininity in Early Critical Theory

Critical Theory and Intersectionality

Feminism and the Critique of False Universals

Critical Feminist Perspectives on Production and Reproduction

Identity, Subjectivity, and Difference

Outlook: Challenges and Tensions

Chapter 12: From Inspiring Ally to Ideological Enemy . . . and Back Again?! : Twists and Turns in the Reception of Critical Theory in State-Socialist Czechoslovakia 1956-89 . . . and After

In the Shadows: The Initial Situation

In Support of New Philosophy of "Man": Critical Theory During the Post-Stalinist Sixties

A New Philosophy of Man

Recovering the Negativity in Marxist Philosophy

Under Pressure: Critical Theory During the Normalization Regime

Justified?! A Glimpse Into the Period After Velvet Revolution

Chapter 13: Found in Translation: On the Infrastructure of the Transfer of Ideas Between Critical Theory in Yugoslavia and West Germany

Preliminary Conditions

Praxis-Undogmatic Marxism in Yugoslavia

New Experiences, Approaches, and Focal Points for Discussion

Transfer-Translation: Translation as a Critique of the Structures of Power and Domination in Yugoslavia

Barriers

Infrastructures: The Journals

Habermas in the Yugoslav Thick Journals: Appropriation and Instrumentalization.

Praxis International as an Ill-Fated Entanglement

Prospects in Retrospect

Chapter 14: Belated Reception: Critical Theory in Greece from the Mid-1970s to the Present

The First Period of Preparation: 1974-89

The Second Period of Reception: 1989-2004

The Third Period of Reception: 2004-Present

Concluding Remarks

Part IV: The United States

Chapter 15: From Western Marxism and Frankfurt School Critical Theory to Right-Wing Populism: The History of the Journal Telos, 1968-95

The Early Telos and the Split with the Habermasians, 1968-87

Telos's Turn to Carl Schmitt in 1987

Paul Piccone's New Theory of Federal Populism

Telos's Embrace of Right-Wing Populism in Europe: The Northern League in Italy and the French New Right

Telos's Search for Right-Wing Populism in the United States: The Paleoconservatives and Christopher Lasch

Paleoconservativism

Christopher Lasch

Telos's Parting of Ways with Frankfurt School Critical Theory

Chapter 16: Interview with Martin Jay on the Reception of Critical Theory in the United States, 1960s-Present

Notes

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Contributors

Index.

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Print version: Abromeit, John The Internationalization of Critical Theory

ISBN:

9781350498990

OCLC:

1597387186