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...Eric Rentschler These short statements were presented in the roundtable discussion held at the September 2012 Columbia University conference dedicated to Miriam Hansen, “Cinema and the Legacies of Critical Theory.” The discussion was moderated by Eric Rentschler; the panelists included Heide...

... on the economic and psychoanalytic aspects and concludes that Critical Theory remained too close to traditional Marxism to generate more profound insights into the nature of fascism, especially with regard to its political features. © 2017 by New German Critique, Inc. 2017 Frankfurt School Marxism...

...C. Stephen Jaeger Critical theory has made little use of “aura” and virtually none of “charisma.” Drawing on passages from Homer and Marcel Proust, this article broadens the view of aura that has developed among Walter Benjamin and his commentators and adds to the view of Max Weber and his...

... of Social Research he accentuated the unequal power recourses of conflicting social groups and different institutional mechanisms to deal with these conflicts politically. This approach made his work interesting for authors of a later generation of Critical Theory like Jürgen Habermas and Claus Offe. Max...

...Mathijs Peters Abstract This article focuses on the role that the notion of temporality can and should play in the tradition of Critical Theory. Following an overview of the critical analyses of time found in the works of Marx, Lukács, Weber, Adorno, Fromm, and Marcuse, the article analyzes Hartmut...

... conducive to tragedy than others ( EMD , 25–26, 43, 50). The basis of dramatic form in Weltanschauung can certainly be criticized as a kind of causal occultation typical of all determining “bases,” but—simply taking Lukács at his word—he does not understand tragic form through a reflection theory (i.e...

... of empiricism and an original reconstruction of Engels’s unjustly maligned philosophy of nature, this essay outlines how critical theory can move beyond the pessimism about technoscientific practice that characterized the Frankfurt School’s most influential early work—without forfeiting the historical insight...

...Robert Zwarg Critical theory has had an extraordinarily productive reception in the United States, most notably in journals like Telos and New German Critique . The article, based on a larger study, sketches the American reception of the Frankfurt School as (1) an attempt to come to grips...

... of critical thinking within the university. It then argues that the Spartacus Department’s and Lumumba-Zapata College’s mutual attempts to occupy and refigure corners of the accredited university as sites of horizontal teaching and learning encode the missing theory of organization in the Frankfurt School’s...

...John Brenkman Just as Jürgen Habermas's dialogue with Cardinal Ratzinger shifted critical theory's stance toward religion, the dialogue between Gianni Vattimo and René Girard reveals tensions within philosophy's critical appropriations of Christianity. Vattimo draws on Heidegger and hermeneutics...

..., philosophy, and social theory. This interest was reflected both in his editorial policy for the Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung and in his own scholarly development that led to the development of critical theory in the later 1930s and the anti-Semitism research of the 1940s. Horkheimer's interests...

... of Technical Images , 1985). This work is of crucial importance for all critical theory on media, because Flusser both continues the Marxist tradition of German media theory (in particular of Siegfried Kracauer, Bertolt Brecht, and Walter Benjamin) and upgrades that legacy to contemporary media conditions...

... theory of nature thanks to Bruno Latour and Noel Castree, this article examines the legacy of Lukács’s theory of “metabolism” in order to defend the contemporary validity of Marxian ecology. Although Lukács is also often criticized for his exclusion of nature from his dialectical analysis of society...

...Philipp Felsch The intellectual content of such paradigms as Critical Theory, neo-Marxism, and poststructuralism has been abundantly traced. What remains to be studied, however, is the tremendous impact these schools of thought had on both the academic field and Western countercultures during...

... studies. The article presents the Frankfurt School as part of the 1940s’ memorandum culture and thereby attempts to situate the historiography of critical theory during this formative period within a broader intellectual landscape, that is, in dialogue and competition with several other projects...

... of depth that the reception of Critical Theory has all too often ignored or disparaged. 31. Florman, Concerning the Spiritual and the Concrete in Kandinsky’s Art , 47 . 32. The concert, which took place on September 17, 1988, in the Alten Oper in Frankfurt am Main, featured Adorno’s Zwei...

...-Holocaust revival in the field of cultural history but also of a continuing disjunction between the contexts of European critical theory and history and the anomalies of its reception in American popular culture. © 2013 by New German Critique, Inc. 2013 Toward an Expansion of the Critique...

... as comfortable illusions. Through this philosophical encounter, two faces of Critical Theory emerge, one oriented toward an analysis of the present and the other turned toward hopes for the future. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by New German Critique, Inc. 2024 Frankfurt School Critical Theory...

...Andrzej Frelek This article argues for the value inherent in rereading Theodor Adorno’s 1962 essay “Progress,” placing his thoughts in the context of the climate crisis and arguing for the necessity of retaining a form of negative hope in critical theory. First, the article retraces his analysis...

...Heide Schlüpmann These short statements were presented in the roundtable discussion held at the September 2012 Columbia University conference dedicated to Miriam Hansen, “Cinema and the Legacies of Critical Theory.” The discussion was moderated by Eric Rentschler; the panelists included Heide...