New Essays On The Frankfurt School Of Critical Theory

Author : Alfred J. Drake
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : NWU:35556039965249

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New Essays on the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory by Alfred J. Drake Pdf

New Essays on the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory offers fifteen essays covering a variety of authors and topics related to the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory (Institut fÃ1/4r Sozialforschung) that flourished from the 1920s in connection with the University of Frankfurt in Germany and then abroad. The volume offers reflections on the Frankfurt Schoolâ (TM)s critical dialogue with philosophical predecessors such as Marx and Nietzsche, elucidates key debates between Frankfurt School authors and contemporaries, and addresses the continuing significance of the Frankfurt School in the postmodern age, with reference to major thinkers such as Fredric Jameson, Antonio Negri, Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Lacan. Readers will find a lively but respectful debate on the strengths and limitations of Frankfurt notions about technology, â oenegative dialectics, â the Shoah, and the utopian dimension of political thought, among other concerns. The aim of contributors throughout has been to broaden readersâ (TM) understanding of the sophistication and integrity of Frankfurt School thought rather than reducing it to the level of the formulaic or polemical. Music theory, the representation of urban spaces in prose and image, and the theorization of childhood find a place in this appropriately diverse collection, with essays on Lewis Mumford and Siegfried Kracauer broadening its scope.

Author : David Berry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317063513

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Revisiting the Frankfurt School by David Berry Pdf

What has become known as the Frankfurt School is often reduced to a small number of theorists in media communication and cultural studies. Challenging this limitation, Revisiting The Frankfurt School introduces a wider theoretical perspective by introducing critical assessments on a number of writers associated with the school that have been mostly marginalized from debate. This book therefore expands our understanding by addressing the writings of intellectuals who were either members of the school, or were closely associated with it, but often neglected. It thus brings together the latest research of an international team of experts to examine the work of figures such as the social psychologist Erich Fromm, the philosophy of Siegfried Kracauer, the writer on media and communication Leo Lowenthal, introducing Hans Magnus Enzenberger to the debate, whilst also shedding new light on the work of Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Walter Benjamin and Jürgen Habermas. A critical reassessment of the contributions of the Frankfurt School and its associates to cultural, media and communication studies, as well as to our modern understanding of new media technology and debate within the public sphere, this book will appeal to those with interests in sociology, philosophy, social psychology, social theory, media and communication, and cultural studies.

Author : William S. Wilkerson,Jeffrey R. Paris,Jeffrey Paris
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780742512788

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New Critical Theory by William S. Wilkerson,Jeffrey R. Paris,Jeffrey Paris Pdf

Seeking to expand critical theory beyond the frontiers represented by Habermas (on the one hand) and postmodern cultural studies (on the other), 12 essays describe the aims and methods of this pursuit, and apply it to the resistance to colonialism, critiques of technology, race relations, and queer theory. The work of Marcuse is given particular consideration. Contributors are American scholars of philosophy and English. c. Book News Inc.

Author : Max Horkheimer
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1972-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780826400833

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Critical Theory by Max Horkheimer Pdf

These essays, written in the 1930s and 1940s, represent a first selection in English from the major work of the founder of the famous Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt. Horkheimer's writings are essential to an understanding of the intellectual background of the New Left and the to much current social-philosophical thought, including the work of Herbert Marcuse. Apart from their historical significance and even from their scholarly eminence, these essays contain an immediate relevance only now becoming fully recognized.

Author : Martin Jay
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781788736015

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Splinters in Your Eye by Martin Jay Pdf

Assessing the legacy of the Frankfurt School in the twenty-first century Although successive generations of the Frankfurt School have attempted to adapt Critical Theory to new circumstances, the work done by its founding members continues in the 21st century to unsettle conventional wisdom about culture, society and politics. Exploring unexamined episodes in the School's history and reading its work in unexpected ways, these essays provide ample evidence of the abiding relevance of Horkheimer, Adorno, Benjamin, Marcuse, Löwenthal, and Kracauer in our troubled times. Without forcing a unified argument, they range over a wide variety of topics, from the uncertain founding of the School to its mixed reception of psychoanalysis, from Benjamin's ruminations on stamp collecting to the ironies in the reception of Marcuse's One-Dimensional Man, from Löwenthal's role in Weimar's Jewish Renaissance to Horkheimer's involvement in the writing of the first history of the Frankfurt School. Of special note are their responses to visual issues such as the emancipation of color in modern art, the Jewish prohibition on images, the relationship between cinema and the public sphere, and the implications of a celebrated Family of Man photographic exhibition. The collection ends with two essays tracing the still metastasizing demonization of the Frankfurt School by the so-called Alt Right as the source of "cultural Marxism" and "political correctness," which has gained alarming international resonance and led to violence by radical right-wing fanatics.

Author : Axel Honneth
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231518376

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Pathologies of Reason by Axel Honneth Pdf

Axel Honneth has been instrumental in advancing the work of the Frankfurt School of critical theorists, rebuilding their effort to combine radical social and political analysis with rigorous philosophical inquiry. These eleven essays reclaim the relevant themes of the Frankfurt School, which counted Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Walter Benjamin, Jürgen Habermas, Franz Neumann, and Albrecht Wellmer as members. They also engage with Kant, Freud, Alexander Mitscherlich, and Michael Walzer, whose work on morality, history, democracy, and individuality intersects with the Frankfurt School's core concerns. Collected here for the first time in English, Honneth's essays pursue the unifying themes and theses that support the methodologies and thematics of critical social theory, and they address the possibilities of continuing this tradition through radically changed theoretical and social conditions. According to Honneth, there is a unity that underlies critical theory's multiple approaches: the way in which reason is both distorted and furthered in contemporary capitalist society. And while much is dead in the social and psychological doctrines of critical social theory, its central inquiries remain vitally relevant. Is social progress still possible after the horrors of the twentieth century? Does capitalism deform reason and, if so, in what respects? Can we justify the relationship between law and violence in secular terms, or is it inextricably bound to divine justice? How can we be free when we're subject to socialization in a highly complex and in many respects unfree society? For Honneth, suffering and moral struggle are departure points for a new "reconstructive" form of social criticism, one that is based solidly in the empirically grounded, interdisciplinary approach of the Frankfurt School.

Author : Richard Wolin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135445393

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The Frankfurt School Revisited by Richard Wolin Pdf

This volume is a collection of essays by Richard Wolin, a leading political theorist and intellectual historian. It is the follow up to Wolin’s two recent, widely acclaimed books: Heidegger’s Children and The Seduction of Unreason. In those books, he explored the legacy of Martin Heidegger and his impact on some of his most influential and notable students. He dealt particularly with the effect that Heidegger’s subsequent embrace of fascism and National Socialism had on these students. Delving further in his next book, Wolin explored the question of why philosophers and intellectuals have been drawn to antiliberal, antidemocratic fascism. The essays in this book are focused on European Political Thought particularly with figures associated with the Frankfurt School. The collection represents a virtual who’s who of European political thinkers with essays on Walter Benjamin, Adorno, Marcuse, Arendt, Heidegger, Weber, Jaspers, and Carl Schmitt. Moving beyond these thinkers and those books, this collection will also include essays on contemporary political issues such as post-communist revolutions, human rights, global democracy, the revival of republicanism, and religion and public life.

Author : Seyla Benhabib,Wolfgang Bonss,John McCole
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0262522071

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On Max Horkheimer by Seyla Benhabib,Wolfgang Bonss,John McCole Pdf

This collection of essays by German and American scholars will help familiarize English-speaking readers with the most important results of this recent work and, in conjunction with a companion volume of Horkheimer's essays, Between Philosophy and Social Science, should provide a much fuller and deeper picture of his role in the history of modern social theory. Max Horkheimer (1895-1973), one of the founders of critical theory and a sometime colleague of Herbert Marcuse, Theodor Adorno, and Walter Benjamin, has become a subject of renewed attention and appreciation in Germany in the last decade. This collection of essays by German and American scholars will help familiarize English-speaking readers with the most important results of this recent work and, in conjunction with a companion volume of Horkheimer's essays, Between Philosophy and Social Science, should provide a much fuller and deeper picture of his role in the history of modern social theory.

Author : J. M. Bernstein
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0415058554

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Frankfurt School by J. M. Bernstein Pdf

The Frankfurt School' refers to the members associated with the "Institut fur Sozialforschung (Institute for Social Research) " which was founded in Frankfurt in 1923. The work of this group is generally agreed to have been a landmark in twentieth century social science. It is of seminal importance in our understanding of culture, progress, politics, production, consumption and method. This set of six volumes provides a full picture of the School by examining the important developments that have occured since the deaths of the original core of Frankfurt scholars. All the major figures--Adorno, Horkheimer, Marcuse, Benjamin--are represented. In particular, the important post-war work of Jurgen Habermas is fully assessed. The collection also covers the work of many of the minor figures associated with the School who have been unfairly neglected in the past, resulting in the most complete survey and guide to the "oeuvre" of the Frankfurt School.

Author : Jeffrey T. Nealon,Caren Irr
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791488010

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Rethinking the Frankfurt School by Jeffrey T. Nealon,Caren Irr Pdf

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. Ironically, contemporary theorists find themselves turning back toward the Frankfurt School precisely for the reasons it was once scorned: for a notion of subjects whose desires are less liberated and multiplied than they are produced and regulated by a far-reaching, very-nearly totalizing global culture industry. Indeed, as new questions concerning globalization and economic redistribution emerge, while analyses of identity politics and subjective transgression become less central to contemporary theory and cultural studies, the future of the Frankfurt School looks as promising and productive as its past has proven to be.

Author : Axel Honneth
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1995-08-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438407005

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The Fragmented World of the Social by Axel Honneth Pdf

Author : T. B. Bottomore
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Frankfurt school of sociology
ISBN : 0415285380

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The Frankfurt School and Its Critics by T. B. Bottomore Pdf

Controversial look at the School's contribution to modern sociology, examining issues previously not discussed, such as the neglect of history and political economy by the critical theorists, and the relationship of the School to radical movements.

Author : Thomas Wheatland
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816653676

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The Frankfurt School in Exile by Thomas Wheatland Pdf

Thomas Wheatland examines the influence of the Frankfurt School, or Horkheimer Circle, and how they influenced American social thought and postwar German sociology. He argues that, contrary to accepted belief, the members of the group, who fled oppression in Nazi Germany in 1934, had a major influence on postwar intellectual life.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9781412818346

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The Frankfurt School by Anonim Pdf

Originally published: New York: Wiley, c1977.

Author : Rolf Wiggershaus
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0262731134

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The Frankfurt School by Rolf Wiggershaus Pdf

The book is based on documentary and biographical materials that have only recently become available. As the narrative follows the Institute for Social Research from Frankfurt am Main to Geneva, New York, and Los Angeles, and then back to Frankfurt, Wiggershaus continually ties the evolution of the school to the changing intellectual and political contexts in which it operated.