
Immanent critiques : the Frankfurt School under pressure
Martin Jay
Bok · Engelsk · 2023
Omfang | 231 sider
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Opplysninger | 1968 in an Expanded Field: The Frankfurt School and the Uneven Course of History -- Adorno and the Role of Sublimation in Artistic Creativity and Cultural Redemption -- Blaming the Victim? Arendt, Adorno and Erikson on the Jewish Responsibility for Anti-Semitism -- The Authoritarian Personality and the Problematic Pathologization of Politics -- The Age of Rackets? Trump, Scorsese and the Frankfurt School -- Go Figure: Fredric Jameson on Walter Benjamin -- Leib, Körper and the Body Politic -- Marx and Mendacity: Can There Be a Politics without Hypocrisy?. - "Martin Jay reflects on the Frankfurt School's legacy, turning the school's practice of "immanent critique" in on itself, applying critical pressure on a number of its own ideas to probe for their contradictory impulses. He unearths and examines the pathologization of political deviance through stigmatizing "authoritarian personalities," the undefended theological premises of Walter Benjamin's work, and the ambivalence of its members' analyses of anti-Semitism and Zionism. Additional questions include the advocacy of a politics based on a singular notion of the truth"--
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ISBN | 9781804292525
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