Nealon / Irr Rethinking the Frankfurt School

Alternative Legacies of Cultural Critique
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8801-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 235 Seiten

By exploring the work of the Frankfurt school today, this book helps to define the very field of cultural studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nealon, Jeffrey T.

Irr, Caren

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Rethinking the Frankfurt School
Jeffrey T. Nealon and Caren Irr
I. THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL TODAY
1. The Theoretical Hesitation: Benjamin’s Sociological Predecessor
Fredric Jameson
2. The Frankfurt School and British Cultural Studies: The Missed Articulation
Douglas Kellner
3. The Limits of Culture: The Frankfurt School and/for Cultural Studies
Imre Szeman
4. The Frankfurt School and the Political Economy of Communications
Ronald V. Bettig
II. ADORNO
5. Of Mice and Mimesis: Reading Spiegelman with Adorno
Andreas Huyssen
6. Why Do the Sirens Sing?: Figuring the Feminine in Dialectic of Enlightenment
Nancy Love
7. On Doing the Adorno Two-Step
Evan Watkins
8. Maxima Immoralia?: Speed and Slowness in Adorno
Jeffrey T. Nealon III. BENJAMIN, HORKHEIMER, MARCUSE, HABERMAS
9. The Negative History of the Moment of Possibility: Walter Benjamin and the Coming of the Messiah
Richard A. Lee Jr.
10. The Frankfurt School and the Domination of Nature: New Grounds for Radical Environmentalism
Kevin DeLuca
11. One-Dimensional Symptoms: What Marcuse Offers a Critical Theory of Law
Caren Irr
12 The Offentlichkeit of Jurgen Habermas: The Frankfurt School’s Most Influential Concept?
Thomas O. Beebee
IV. CONCLUSION
13. The Frankfurt School
Agnes Heller
About the Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jeffrey T. Nealon is Professor of English at The Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Alterity Politics: Ethics and Performative Subjectivity and Double Reading: Postmodernism after Deconstruction. Caren Irr is Assistant Professor of English at Brandeis University. She is the author of The Suburb of Dissent: Cultural Politics in the United States and Canada During the 1930s.