Rethinking the Frankfurt School: Alternative Legacies of Cultural Critique

by Nealon, Jeffrey T.; Irr, Caren

• ISBN13: 9780791454923
• ISBN10: 0791454924
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-09-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction: Rethinking the Frankfurt School	p. 1
The Frankfurt School Today
The Theoretical Hesitation: Benjamin's Sociological Predecessor	p. 11
The Frankfurt School and British Cultural Studies: The Missed Articulation	p. 31
The Limits of Culture: The Frankfurt School and/for Cultural Studies	p. 59
The Frankfurt School and the Political Economy of Communications	p. 81
Adorno
Of Mice and Mimesis: Reading Spiegelman with Adorno	p. 97
Why Do the Sirens Sing?: Figuring the Feminine in Dialectic of Enlightenment	p. 111
On Doing the Adorno Two-Step	p. 123
Maxima Immoralia?: Speed and Slowness in Adorno	p. 131
Benjamin, Horkheimer, Marcuse, Habermas
The Negative History of the Moment of Possibility: Walter Benjamin and the Coming of the Messiah	p. 145
The Frankfurt School and the Domination of Nature: New Grounds for Radical Environmentalism	p. 153
One-Dimensional Symptoms: What Marcuse Offers a Critical Theory of Law	p. 169
The Offentlichkeit of Jurgen Habermas: The Frankfurt School's Most Influential Concept?	p. 187
Conclusion
The Frankfurt School	p. 207
About the Contributors	p. 223
Index	p. 225
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