German 20th Century Philosophy: The Frankfurt School (German Library) - Softcover

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9780826409676: German 20th Century Philosophy: The Frankfurt School (German Library)

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ISBN 10: 0826409679 ISBN 13: 9780826409676

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2000

This work contains writings of members of the Frankfurt School including: "On the Concept of Philosophy" by Max Horkheimer; "Reflections from Damaged Life" and selections from "Aesthetic Theory" by Theodor W. Adorno; "Theses on the Philosophy of History" by Walter Benjamin; and "On Hedonism", "Solidarity", and "The Catastrophe of Liberation" by Herbert Marcuse; and "Adorno: The Primal History of Subjectivity", "Benjamin: Conciousness-Raising or Raising Technique", and "Marcuse: Psychic Thermidor" by Jurgen Habermas.

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About the Author:

Wolfgang Schirmacher teaches at the New School for Social Research.

From Library Journal:

The Frankfurt School remains a puzzle, its flickering importance hard to assess. In the Sixties, Herbert Marcuse became the darling of antiwar protesters; central figure Theodor Adorno fled in horror when his lectures were invaded by bare-breasted women protesting his "patriarchate"; and with aesthetics and politics again linked, Walter Benjamin has sparked much recent discussion. These very different thinkers were organized into a functioning group by Max Horkheimer, an academic administrator with remarkable fundraising skills. All were inspired by a Marx whom they related closely to Hegel, and all used some ideas and jargon from the phenomenological movement. Their chief remaining spokesman, J rgen Habermas, once Adorno's assistant, now preaches a kind of gentled capitalism that could be applauded by Gerhard Schroeder or Tony Blair. Schirmacher (German Socialist Philosophy) provides a brief but lucid introduction, and his selections raise the most central topics. A useful work for almost all academic and larger general collections.
-Leslie Armour, Univ. of Ottawa, Ont.
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