This secondary source begins by introducing the Frankfurt School and Marcuse’s differentiation from earlier thinkers. It continues as an analysis of Marcuse’s thought, especially as outlined in On Dimensional Man, with comparison to the works of Adorno and Horkheimer in particular. It is broken down into the following subsections:
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David Ingram: Marcuse and the New Politics of Liberation
Posted in Marcuse, history on April 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Max Pensky : The Trash of History
Posted in Adorno, Benjamin, critical theory, historical materialism, historicism, history, melancholy, object, subject on April 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In Max Pensky’s “The Trash of History,” taken from the larger Melancholy Dialectics: Walter Benjamin and the Play of Mourning, Walter Benjamin’s use of the objective dialectical image is viewed in juxtaposition–and unwanted collaboration -with subjective allegorical imagery. The dialectical image, where past and present interact with one another, is Benjamin’s method and [...]
Stefan Breuer : The Long Friendship – Theoretical Differences Between Horkheimer and Adorno
Posted in Adorno, Benjamin, Horkheimer, critical theory, historical materialism, history on April 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Long Friendship: Theoretical Differences Between Horkheimer and Adorno originally appeared in the book On Max Horkheimer: New Perspectives. In this essay Stefan Breuer successfully highlights the contrasting viewpoints that arise when juxtaposing the works of Horkheimer and Adorno.
Adorno, Ellison, and the Critique of Jazz
Posted in Adorno, critical theory, history on April 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In the “ Culture Industry” chapter of The Dialectic of Enlightenment, Adorno and Horkheimer wrote of jazz, “ No Palestrina could have eliminated the unprepared or unresolved dissonance more puristically than the jazz arranger excludes any phrase which does not exactly fit the jargon. If he jazzes up Mozart, he changes the music not only [...]
Gersholm Scholem: Walter Benjamin and His Angel
Posted in Benjamin, historical materialism, history on April 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Gersholm Scholem’s main focus is to discuss Walter Benjamin’s fascination with the painting Angelus Novus, by Paul Klee. He shows how Benjamin’s interpretation follow a dialectic between mystical intuition and reason. His main discussion revolves around the first two drafts found in a notebook in Benjamin’s literary remains in Frankfurt written August [...]
Josef Fruchtl : The Struggle of the Self Against Itself: Adorno and Heidegger on Modernity.
Posted in Adorno, critical theory, history, phenomenology, self, subject on April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In this paper Fruchtl attempts to investigate the question of reflection on modernity. His main thesis is that to reflect upon modernity is to reflect upon the self. This immediately launches the investigation into the realm of subjectivity. He begins by building a picturing of the current dynamic concerning the subject. He creates a dynamic [...]
Theodor Adorno: Reflections on Class Theory
Posted in Adorno, historical materialism, history, progress, regression on April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Theodor Adorno’s essay, “Reflections on Class Theory”, found in Can One Live After Auschwitz?, combines many of the themes that have been focused upon this semester, particularly Walter Benjamin’s notion of progress and Adorno and Max Horkheimer’s critique of mass culture. Set within a context of how the theory of class has changed into the [...]
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