Synopses & Reviews
The Frankfurt School of philosophers, aestheticians, sociologists, and political scientists (including Theodore W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Max Horkheimer, Erich Fromm, and Herbert Marcuse) represents one of the most interesting and unique intellectual events of the twentieth century. Editors Arato and Gebhardt offer major introductions to the three sections that comprise the Reader, in which they seek to place to historical development of the School's thought and to deonstrate its complexity, while investigating its influence on various disciplines. Paul Piccone has written the General Introduction.
Synopsis
The Frankfurt School of philosophers, aestheticians, sociologists, and political scientists (including Theodore W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Max Horkheimer, Erich Fromm, and Herbert Marcuse) represents one of the most interesting and unique intellectual events of the twentieth century. Editors Arato and Gebhardt offer major introductions to the three sections that comprise the Reader, in which they seek to place to historical development of the School's thought and to deonstrate its complexity, while investigating its influence on various disciplines. Paul Piccone has written the General Introduction.
Table of Contents
PrefaceGeneral Introduction: Paul PicconePart 1: Political Sociology and Critique of PoliticsIntroduction by Andrew AratoThe End of Reason: HorkheimerChanges in the Structure of Political Compromise: KircheimerState Capitalism: Its Possibilities adn Limitations: PollockThe Authoritarian State: HorkheimerFreudian Theory and the Pattern of Fascist Propaganda: AdornoSome Social Implications of Modern Technology: MarcuseNotesPart II: Theory and Cultural CriticismIntroduction by Andrew AratoIntroductory note by Eike GebhardtEdward Fuchs: Collector and Historian: BenjaminThe Author as Producer: BenjaminOn the Fetish Character in Music and the Regression of Listening: AdornoCommitment: AdornoKnut Hamsun: LowenthalPart III: A Critique of MethodologyIntroduction by Eike GebhardtOn the Problem of Truth: HorkheimerA Note on Dialectic: MarcuseThe Sociology of Knowledge and its Consciousness: AdornoOn Science and Phenomenology: MarcuseThe Method and Function of an Analytic Social Psychology: FrommSubject and Object: AdornoNotesBiographical NotesBibliographyIndexAcknowledgements