Foundations of the Frankfurt School of Social ResearchJudith T. Marcus, Zoltán Tar |
Contents
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The Dialectical Imagination by Martin Jay | 79 |
The Frankfurt School and Critical Theory | 95 |
Critique of Reason from Max Weber to Jurgen Habermas | 117 |
Irrationalism of the Left | 133 |
8 Reason or Revolution? | 155 |
The Struggle of Reason against Total Bureaucratization | 235 |
The Positivist Dispute in Retrospect | 253 |
The Uses of Psychoanalysis in Critical Theory and Structuralism | 273 |
Partisan Truth Knowledge and Social Classes in Critical Theory | 289 |
The Political Contradictions in Adornos Critical Theory | 307 |
The AntiSemitism Studies of the Frankfurt School The Failure of Critical Theory | 311 |
Political Economy and Critical Theory | 323 |
The Frankfurt School | 343 |
The Frankfurt School An Autobiographical Note | 167 |
On Walter Benjamin | 173 |
Lukacs and Horkheimer The Place of Aesthetics in Horkheimers Thought | 179 |
Negative Philosophy of Music Positive Results | 193 |
Autonomy of Art Looking Back at Adornos Asthetische Theorie | 207 |
Critical Theory and Dialectics | 227 |
From Hegel to Marcuse | 375 |
Understanding Marcuse | 387 |
The Limits of Praxis in Critical Theory | 401 |
About the Contributors | 419 |
Index | 425 |
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Page 382 - The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the whole surface of the globe. It must nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connections everywhere. The bourgeoisie has, through its exploitation of the world market, given a cosmopolitan character to production and consumption in every country.
Page 175 - Allegories are, in the realm of thoughts, what ruins are in the realm of things.
Page 220 - But the instant the criterion of authenticity ceases to be applicable to artistic production, the total function of art is reversed. Instead of being based on ritual, it begins to be based on another practice - politics.
Page 49 - ... the conflict between instinctual aims and social constraints. In turn these achievements become part of the productive forces accumulated by a society, the cultural tradition through which a society interprets itself, and the legitimations that a society accepts or criticizes. My third thesis is thus that knowledgeconstitutive interests take form in the medium of work, language, and power.
Page 40 - The common element is the search for an 'authentic language' — the language of negation as the Great Refusal to accept the rules of a game in which the dice are loaded. The absent must be made present because the greater part of the truth is in that which is absent.
Page 138 - after Auschwitz. our feelings resist any claim of the positivity of existence as sanctimonious. as wronging the victims: they balk at squeezing any kind of sense. however. bleached. out of the victims
Page 87 - The emancipation of the German is the emancipation of man. The head of this emancipation is philosophy, its heart is the proletariat. Philosophy cannot be made a reality without the abolition of the proletariat, the proletariat cannot be abolished without philosophy being made a reality.
Page 177 - Any person, any object, any relationship can mean absolutely anything else. With this possibility a destructive, but just verdict is passed on the profane world; it is characterized as a world in which the detail is of no great importance.
Page 378 - It is natural to our intellect, whose function is essentially practical, made to present to us things and states rather than changes and acts. But things and states are only views, taken by our mind, of becoming. There are no things, there are only actions.