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The Modernist Imagination

Intellectual History and Critical Theory
Buch | Hardcover
458 Seiten
2008
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-84545-428-9 (ISBN)
185,95 inkl. MwSt
Some of the most exciting and innovative work in the humanities is occurring at the intersection of intellectual history and critical theory. This volume includes work from some of the most prominent contemporary scholars in the humanities.
Some of the most exciting and innovative work in the humanities currently takes place at the intersection of intellectual history and critical theory. Just as critical theorists are becoming more aware of the historicity of theory, contemporary practitioners of modern intellectual history are recognizing their potential contributions to theoretical discourse. No one has done more than Martin Jay to realize the possibilities for mutual enrichment between intellectual history and critical theory. This carefully selected collection of essays addresses central questions and current practices of intellectual history and asks how the legacy of critical theory has influenced scholarship across a wide range of scholarly disciplines. In honor of Martin Jay's unparalleled achievements, this volume includes work from some of the most prominent contemporary scholars in the humanities and social sciences.

Warren Breckman is Associate Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania and executive editor of the Journal of the History of Ideas.

Editors’ Preface



Chapter 1. Martin Jay and the Dialectics of Intellectual History

Lloyd Kramer



PART I: INTELLECTUAL HISTORY



Chapter 2. The Kiss of Lamourette: ‘Possibilism’ or ‘Christian Democracy’?

David Sorkin



Chapter 3. Selves without Qualities: Duchamp, Musil, and the History of Selfhood

Jerrold Seigel



Chapter 4. Liberty and the ‘Coming-into-Being’ of Natural Law: Hans Kelsen and Ernst Cassirer

Gregory B. Moynahan



Chapter 5. The Artwork Beyond Itself: Adorno, Beethoven, and Late Style

Peter E. Gordon



Chapter 6. Marxism and Alterity: Claude Lefort and the Critique of Totality

Samuel Moyn



Chapter 7. The Return of the King: Hegelianism and Post-Marxism in Zizek and Nancy

Warren Breckman



Chapter 8. Paradigm Shift: The Speculation of Downcast Eyes

Rosalind Krauss



PART II: VIOLENCE, MEMORY, IDENTITY



Chapter 9. Memory Culture at an Impasse: Memorials in Berlin and New York

Andreas Huyssen



Chapter 10. Against Grandiloquence: ‘Victim’s Culture’ and Jewish Memory

Carolyn J. Dean



Chapter 11. Paris, Capital of Antifascism

Anson Rabinbach



Chapter 12. Toward a Critique of Violence

Dominick LaCapra



Chapter 13. Democratization, Turks, and the Burden of German History

Rita Chin



Chapter 14. The Gewaltfrage and Postwar West: German Generations in the 1960s

A. Dirk Moses and Elliot Neaman



PART III: CRITICAL THEORY AND GLOBAL POLITICS



Chapter 15. From ‘The Dialectic of Enlightenment’ to ‘The Origins of Totalitarianism’ and the Genocide Convention: Adorno and Horkheimer in the Company of Arendt and Lemkin

Seyla Benhabib



Chapter 16. Western Marxism, Morality, and Politics

Dick Howard



Chapter 17. Sovereign Equality vs. Imperial Right: The Battle Over the ‘New World Order’

Jean Cohen



Chapter 18. The Myths of Modern Identity as Ersatz Ideologies

Detlef Claussen and Michael Werz



PART IV: CODA



Chapter 19. An Interview with Martin Jay



Bibliography of the Writings of Martin Jay

Contributors

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.12.2008
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 735 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie
Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10 1-84545-428-6 / 1845454286
ISBN-13 978-1-84545-428-9 / 9781845454289
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