THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL REVISITED (P/B)

Παρουσίαση

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 in 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. (ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΙΑΣΗ ΣΤΟ ΟΠΙΣΘΟΦΥΛΛΟ ΤΟΥ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΥ)

Περιεχόμενα

PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
PART I. THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL REVISITED
1 BETWEEN PROUST AND THE ZOHAR: WALTER BENJAMIN'S 'ARCADES PROJECT'
2 THE ADORNO CENTENNIAL: THE APOTHEOSIS OF NEGATIVE DIALECTICS
3 WHAT IS HEIDEGGERIAN MARXISM?
4 CRITICAL REFLECTIONS ON MARCUSE'S THEORY OF REVOLUTION
5 THE LION IN WINTER: LEO LOWENTHAL AND THE INTEGRITY OF THE INTELLECTUAL
6 LEVINAS AND HEIDEGGER: THE ANXIETY OF INFLUENCE
7 KARL JASPERS: THE PARADOXES OF MANDARIN HUMANISM
PART II. EXITING REVOLUTION
8 WHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM THE REVOLUTIONS OF 1989
9 FROM THE ''DEATH OF MAN'' TO HUMAN RIGHTS: THE PARADIGM CHANGE IN FRENCH INTELLECTUAL LIFE, 1968-86
10 THE REPUBLICAN REVIVAL: REFLECTIONS ON FRENCH SINGULARITY POSTSCRIPT HEXAGON FEVER
11 WHAT IS GLOBAL DEMOCRACY?
12 RELIGION AND PUBLIC REASON: A CONTEMPORARY DEBATE
13 THE DISORIENTED LEFT: A CRITIQUE OF LEFT SCHMITTIANISM
14 KANT AT GROUND ZERO: PHILOSOPHERS RESPOND TO SEPTEMBER 11
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