...Nouri Gana Theodor W. Adorno's by now infamous dictum that “to write lyric poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric” still weighs heavily on various modern and contemporary representations of war and violence, especially in the Arab world, where the legacy of the Holocaust, entangled with differing...

.... In Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno’s Dialectic of Enlightenment, one of the founding texts (how- ever reluctantly) of cultural studies, we find the Sirens episode again, this time read more ambiguously as an “allegory of the dialectic of enlightenment”-that is, an allegory of how Western...

... School - Negt was an assistant to Habermas, Kluge a friend and disciple of Adorno - and debates in the wake of the student movement about the relation between Critical Theory and social practice. If Negt’s focus was on the problem of political...

..., the sociohistorical accounts of violence by Max Weber, Hannah Arendt, and Pierre Bourdieu, along with the literary-cultural readings of violence by Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and Georges Bataille, command our attention through Public Culture 18(1):22:1  1d      o–      i 00010.1215/08992363-2009...

... Copyright 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Books Received Adorno, Theodor W. 2007. Dream Notes, edited by Christoph Godde and Henri Lonitz, translated by Rodney Livingstone. Cambridge: Polity Press. Adorno, Theodor W. 2007. Letters to His Parents, edited...

...Marjorie Levinson Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Literature Cited Adorno , Theodor , 1974 . Minima Moralia; Rejections from Damaged Life . Trans. E. F. N. Jephcott. London: NLB. Althusser , Louis . 1970 . “From Capital to Marx's Philosophy.” In Louis...

..., he regards these pairings less as emblems of African American cultural integrity or the possibility of American racial integration than as marks of rupture and the articulation of difference. According to Theodor Adorno, the synesthetic integration of individual arts in the Gesamtkunstwerk...

... and investigating suspected criminals, while members of the judiciary are responsible for prosecuting, defending, judging, and sentencing these suspects. The executive branch of government is tasked with “correcting” convicted criminals ( Adorno 1994 : 108). In practice, however, police officers and prison security...

...-musealization” by video recorder, memoir writing, and confessional literature; the rise of autobiography and of the postmod- 10. This view was first articulated by Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno in Dialectic of Enlightenment, trans. John...

... Adorno, and Ernst Bloch. 103 Public Culture This essay focuses on Aimé Césaire’s post – World War II commitment to colo- nial emancipation without national independence. It examines how his constitu...

... progressive and dynamic technologies that would mimic and at the same time veil the outside world, poten- tially creating the oppressive illusion of reality detailed by Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno.11 To say that vision is explicitly positivist suggests that viewers are naive when approaching...

... Benjamin’s “exhibition value,” to Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno’s “culture industry,” to Guy Debord’s “spec- tacle” — the fundamental Imaginary structures of capitalist modernity.1 But I worry that Afflicted Powers has constructed...

... discussions going, and I read [Theodor] Adorno. And at one of the first ban-the-bomb rallies in front of city hall I heard [Jürgen] Habermas speak. Once I became a student in Berlin, I went back to Frankfurt several times and attended some classes, especially classes that Adorno taught. So it had a very...

... and the ideological seduction of rendering particular theories symbolically and relatively foreign. The burden of theory—its foreignness, its ineradicable but productive violence visvis experience or, to borrow Theodor Adorno’s phrase, nonconceptuality...

... and Tilak ethically and politically but also attempts to highlight the troubling deeper intimacy that conjoins their philosophies. Copyright 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Adorno, Theodor W., and Walter Benjamin. 1999 . The complete correspondence, 1928 – 1940 . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard...

... translatability into their art forms. This special issue of Public Culture finds inspiration in Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno’s midcentury critique of the American “culture industry” in the famous chapter, “The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception...

.... Dissident writers, authors, artists, and thinkers who were forced to leave Germany and other German-occupied countries during the Third Reich, such as Walter Benjamin (2006) , Simone Weil (2014) , Stefan Zweig (1943) , Hannah Arendt (1958, 1994 ), and Theodor Adorno (1951) , turned their situation...

... Copyright 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Books Received Adams, Laura A. 2010. The Spectacular State: Culture and National Identity in Uzbekistan. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. Adorno, Theodor A. 2010. Guilt and Defense: On the Legacies...

... theoretical system, theological or rationalist — is impossible except as its own demise. Yet transcendence is professed all over the place, often gratuitously and with the certainty that it is somehow intrinsically understood, all the while success- fully laboring, as Theodor W. Adorno would put...

...Lisa Yoneyama Copyright © 1995 by The University of Chicago 1995 Literature Cited Adorno , Theodor W. 1986 . “What Does Coming to Terms with the Past Mean?” In Geoffrey H. Hartman, ed. Bitburg in Moral and Political Perspective . Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 114 -129...