Modern Culture and Critical Theory: Art, Politics, and the Legacy of the Frankfurt School

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Univ of Wisconsin Press, 1989 - 277 Seiten
Are the arguments of the Frankfurt School still relevant? Modern Culture and Critical Theory investigates this question in the context of important issues in contemporary cultural politics: neoconservatism and new social movements, discontents with modernity and debates on postmodernism, the political hegemony of Ronald Reagan, and the cultural hegemony of structuralism and poststructuralism. Russell Berman thoughtfully explores the theories of Horkheimer, Adorno, Benjamin, Lyotard, and Foucault and their relevance to both historical and contemporary issues in literature, politics, and the arts.
 

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Genealogy
12
Walter Benjamin on Fascism
27
The Legacy of the Avantgarde and the False
42
Modern Art and Desublimation
70
Leni Riefenstahl Ernst Jünger
99
The Routinization of Charismatic Modernism and the Problem
118
Myth and Modernity in Der Park
136
The Instrumentalization of Culture
155
The Peace Movement and the Avantgarde
175
The Vienna Fascination
204
Urheberrecht

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Russell Berman is professor of German and comparative literature at Stanford University. He is the author of The Rise of the Modern German Novel: Crisis and Charisma.

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