...Fadi A. Bardawil This essay examines three texts that were published in 1950: Aimé Césaire’s Discourse on Colonialism , Adorno et al.’s The Authoritarian Personality , and Octave Mannoni’s Prospero and Caliban: The Psychology of Colonization . I use these texts to examine critical theory’s colonial...

...Miriam Hansen Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Miriam Hansen Of Mice and Ducks: Benjamin and Adorno on Disney AA^alter Benjamin s reflections on film and mass culture repeatedly revolved around Dis­ ney, in particular early Mickey Mouse car­ toons and Silly Symphonies.1 Theodor...

...Andrew Poe What is the structure of prejudice? In his 1951 essay, “Freudian Theory and the Pattern of Fascist Propaganda,” Theodor Adorno reflects on the mass psychological basis of fascism. Within that psychology, he identifies a logic of ego “enlargement,” which relates directly to the structure...

...Benjamin Y. Fong This essay attempts to formulate a more convincing understanding of the new anthropological type than one finds in The Authoritarian Personality , one rooted in Adorno’s work but never articulated by Adorno himself. It begins by challenging Adorno’s use of the term ego weakness...

...Sergio Tischler This article establishes a field of dialogue regarding the idea of the revolutionary and rebel subject between the Zapatista movement (EZLN) and critical theory thinkers, particularly Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno. It highlights the notions of the antihegemonic subject...

...Samantha Rose Hill This essay considers the theme of thought patterns in Adorno’s chapter “Politics and Economics in the Interview Material” in The Authoritarian Personality . Looking at the relationship between the culture industry and the successful dissemination of fascist propaganda, I distill...

...Robert Hullot-Kentor “The essay as form,” Adorno (1984: 160) writes in The Authoritarian Personality , seeks to understand concepts as they “are already unconsciously named in language.” This is not exactly philology since it is only in pressing the given meanings further than their given sense...

... with the new worldview sociology, as Herbert Marcuse, Max Horkheimer, and Theodor Adorno saw it, was that it diluted the message of Marx's materialist approach and veered heavily back toward traditional idealist philosophy. The significance of the intervention of the Frankfurt School lies in the fact...

.... I move through the work of Karl Marx, Michel Foucault, Theodor Adorno, and contemporary commentators on commodity forms including Silvia Federici. The second considers Woolard's work as an example of how decommodification can help think through art, labor, and entrepreneurship in relationship...

... explicitly on a tradition of earlier twentieth-century scholarship—Walter Benjamin, Roger Caillois, and Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno—that located in the mimetic faculty a way out of a techno-fetishized social milieu. This essay explores how mimesis has once again been endowed with revolutionary...

...Michael Stein This essay attempts to demonstrate the limits of American social science by examining the tension between method and theory and, in particular, how this tension plays out in The Authoritarian Personality as well as in contemporary works of political psychology informed by Adorno et al...

... a caricature of the fascist as character type and so fails to comprehend fascism as a many-sided and contradictory movement. Adorno’s contribution to the volume reads like the Dialectic of Enlightenment without the dialectic. Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 Theodor Adorno fascism...

... is usually acknowledged as a critical theorist with claims to the tradition, he has also emerged as this tradition s greatest critic. This is especially the case with regard to his mentor, Theodor W. Adorno, who occupies a special position for Habermas not only in Frankfurt critical theory...

..., and critics including the philologists Erich Auer- bach and Giambattista Vico, as well as the work of cultural critics such as Georg Lukács, Raymond Williams, Theodor Adorno, and to a lesser extent 6896 THE SOUTH ATLANTIC QUARTERLY / 102:4 / sheet...

.... Instead, Benjamin formed intellectual affinities (with classical resonances) during his 1920s sojourns in Italy, where he became part of a distinct, if informal, milieu that in­ cluded others who would play an important role in the formation of criti­ cal theory: Theodor Adorno, Ernst Bloch, Siegfried...

... Press 2018 Frankfurt School critical theory authoritarianism gender feminism References Abromeit John . 2011 . Max Horkheimer and the Foundations of the Frankfurt School . New York : Cambridge University Press . Adorno Theodor W. . 1950a . “ The Measurement...

... it, “the seeds of life”11— in a very different political and philosophical tradition whose rich, dialecti- cal strands are explored in many of the essays that follow. But at bottom, we take as our guiding principle the conviction that Theodor Adorno captured so pithily: “The Hegelian ‘labor of the concept...

..., wrote Theodor Adorno about the Nazi spirit, the more insistently they made sure the roof rested on columns. 2 The monument never serves as a neutral stimulus to recollec­ tion of the past or as the simple mark of loss but as a re-presentation of a past that can threaten the very memory and sense...

..., and therefore from its protection, everything that is not integrated into its various registers.”1 For the general will to be general, that is, it must negate a certain specificity, which reflects, of course, first and foremost, the spe- cific construction of the “general will.” Theodor Adorno, who makes...

.... Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 Theodor W. Adorno Max Horkheimer authority psychoanalysis feminism References Adorno Theodor W. 1987 . “Freudian Theory and the Pattern of Fascist Propaganda .” In The Essential Frankfurt School Reader , edited by Arato Andrew...