Reappraisals: Shifting Alignments in Postwar Critical Theory - Couverture souple

Hohendahl, Peter Uwe

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 080149706X ISBN 13 : 9780801497063

Editeur : Cornell University Press, 2016

Synopsis

Reappraisals is a provocative account of the development of modern critical theory in Germany and the United States. Focusing on the period since World War II, Peter Uwe Hohendahl explores key debates on the function of critical theory, illuminating the diverse positions and alliances among the participants. Bringing together six essays, as well as new introductory and concluding chapters, Hohendahl interprets and subjects to critical scrutiny many of the central ideas of the Frankfurt School. He first maps the trajectory of neomarxist criticism in Germany to the 1980s. Individual chapters then focus on the work of Georg Lukacs, Theodor W. Adorno, and Jürgen Habermas, and on such issues as the politicization of German criticism after 1965 under the influence of the Frankfurt School.

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À propos de l'auteur

Peter Uwe Hohendahl is Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. He is an editor of the series Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought, which is copublished by Cornell University Press and the Cornell University Library. He is the author most recently of The Fleeting Promise of Art: Adorno's Aesthetic Theory Revisited, also from Cornell.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cornell University Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 080149706X
• ISBN 13: 9780801497063
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
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