Rethinking the Frankfurt School

by Nealon, Jeffrey T.; Irr, Caren

• ISBN13: 9780791454916
• ISBN10: 0791454916
• Format: Hardcover
• 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	vii
Introduction: Rethinking the Frankfurt School	1	(10)
Jeffrey T. Nealon
Caren Irr
I THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL TODAY
The Theoretical Hesitation: Benjamin's Sociological Predecessor	11	(20)
Fredric Jameson
The Frankfurt School and British Cultural Studies: The Missed Articulation	31	(28)
Douglas Kellner
The Limits of Culture: The Frankfurt School and/for Cultural Studies	59	(22)
Imre Szeman
The Frankfurt School and the Political Economy of Communications	81	(16)
Ronald V. Bettig
II ADORNO
Of Mice and Mimesis: Reading Spiegelman with Adorno	97	(14)
Andreas Huyssen
Why Do the Sirens Sing?: Figuring the Feminine in Dialectic of Enlightenment	111	(12)
Nancy Love
On Doing the Adorno Two-Step	123	(8)
Evan Watkins
Maxima Immoralia?: Speed and Slowness in Adorno	131	(14)
Jeffrey T. Nealon
III BENJAMIN, HORKHEIMER, MARCUSE, HABERMAS
The Negative History of the Moment of Possibility: Walter Benjamin and the Coming of the Messiah	145	(8)
Richard A. Lee Jr.
The Frankfurt School and the Domination of Nature: New Grounds for Radical Environmentalism	153	(16)
Kevin DeLuca
One-Dimensional Symptoms: What Marcuse Offers a Critical Theory of Law	169	(18)
Caren Irr
The Offentlichkeit of Jurgen Habermas: The Frankfurt School's Most Influential Concept?	187	(20)
Thomas O. Beebee
IV CONCLUSION
The Frankfurt School	207	(16)
Agnes Heller
About the Contributors	223	(2)
Index	225