The Frankfurt School Revisited

ISBN-13: 9780415953566 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 307 str.

Richard Wolin

Opis

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.
"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 on 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.

Spis treści

Introduction: The Frankfurt School Revisited  Part 1: 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? On the Unknown Herbert Marcuse  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 2: 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

O autorze

Richard Wolin is Distinguished Professor of History, Comparative Literature, and Political Science at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Among his books are Heidegger's Children: Hannah Arendt, Karl Lowith, Hans Jonas, and Martin Heidegger (2001) and The Seduction of Unreason: The Intellectual Romance with Fascism from Nietzsche to Postmodernism (2004).