Reason and Horror

Morton Schoolman is Professor of Political Science at SUNY Albany, and the author of The Imaginary Witness: TheCritical Theory of Herbert Marcuse.

Chapter 1 Introduction: Reason and Horror; Part 1 Individuality Before the Holocaust; Chapter 2 Reason as a “Murderous Principle”; Chapter 3 Dialectic of Enlightenment as a Genealogy of Reason; Chapter 4 Aesthetic Individuality by analogy: Dialectic of Enlightenment and the Birth and Death of Tragedy; Chapter 5 Recovering Aesthetic Individuality from Art: Aesthetic Reason in Adorno’S Aesthetic Theory; Part 2 Surfaces; Chapter 6 An Ethic of Appearances; Chapter 7 Individuality as a Poetic Form of Life; Chapter 8 Democracy as an Aesthetic Form of Life; Chapter 9 Aesthetic Individuality as a Democratic Achievement; Chapter 10 Conclusion;