Critical Theory and Frankfurt Theorists: Lectures-Correspondence-Conversations

ISBN-13: 9780887382246 / Angielski / Twarda / 1988 / 302 str.

Leo Lowenthal

Opis

The core of this volume is its presentation of Lowenthal's sixty-year-long intellectual career as a critical theorist and sociologist. The book includes some of his speeches on Theodor Adorno and Walter Benjamin and presents excerpts from conversations on his life as a scholar and teacher, as managing editor of the Institute for Social Research's famous journal, as government servant during and immediately after the war, and as observer and critic of contemporary culture and politics. Together these selections present an intriguing biographical panorama of a major intellectual figure.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments Part I German Jewish Intellectual Culture: Essays from the 1920s Introduction 1 Moses Mendelssohn 2 Salomon Maimon 3 Heinrich Heine 4 Ferdinand Lassalle and Karl Marx 5 Hermann Cohen 6 Sigmund Freud Part II Lectures (1978–1983) 7 Adorno and his Critics (1978) 8 Recollections of Theodor W. Adorno (1983) 9 Walter Benjamin: The Integrity of the Intellectual (1982) 10 Goethe and False Subjectivity (1982) 11 Caliban's Legacy (1983) 12 Sociology of Literature in Retrospect (1981) Part III Correspondence 13 Correspondence of Leo Lowenthal with Theodor W. Adorno 14 Correspondence of Leo Lowenthal with Max Horkheimer Part IV Conversations 15 Scholarly Biography: A Conversation with Helmut Dubiel, 1979 16 We Never Expected Such Fame: A Conversation with Mathias Greffrath, 1979 Afterword Helmut Dubiel Name Index

O autorze

Leo Lowenthal