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Splinters in Your Eye
Martin Jay
其他書名
Frankfurt School Provocations
出版
Verso Books
, 2020-07-14
主題
Philosophy / Movements / Critical Theory
Philosophy / Political
Philosophy / History & Surveys / Modern
Philosophy / Movements / Deconstruction
Philosophy / History & Surveys / General
Philosophy / General
Political Science / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism
History / Social History
ISBN
1788736028
9781788736022
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=AnHnDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Although successive generations of the Frankfurt School have attempted to adapt Critical Theory to new circumstances, the work done by its founding members continues in the 21st century to unsettle conventional wisdom about culture, society and politics. Exploring unexamined episodes in the School's history and reading its work in unexpected ways, these essays provide ample evidence of the abiding relevance of Horkheimer, Adorno, Benjamin, Marcuse, Lwenthal, and Kracauer in our troubled times. Without forcing a unified argument, they range over a wide variety of topics, from the uncertain founding of the School to its mixed reception of psychoanalysis, from Benjamin's ruminations on stamp collecting to the ironies in the reception of Marcuse's
One-Dimensional Man
, from Lwenthal's role in Weimar's Jewish Renaissance to Horkheimer's involvement in the writing of the first history of the Frankfurt School. Of special note are their responses to visual issues such as the emancipation of color in modern art, the Jewish prohibition on images, the relationship between cinema and the public sphere, and the implications of a celebrated
Family of Man
photographic exhibition. The collection ends with two essays tracing the still metastasizing demonization of the Frankfurt School by the so-called Alt Right as the source of "cultural Marxism" and "political correctness," which has gained alarming international resonance and led to violence by radical right-wing fanatics.