The Modernist Imagination

Intellectual History and Critical Theory
Herausgeber: Breckman, Warren; Moses, A. Dirk; Gordon, Peter E.

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Produktbeschreibung

Some of the most exciting and innovative work in the humanities currently takes place at the intersection of intellectual history and critical theory. Just as critical theorists are becoming more aware of the historicity of theory, contemporary practitioners of modern intellectual history are recognizing their potential contributions to theoretical discourse. No one has done more than Martin Jay to realize the possibilities for mutual enrichment between intellectual history and critical theory. This carefully selected collection of essays addresses central questions and current practices of intellectual history and asks how the legacy of critical theory has influenced scholarship across a wide range of scholarly disciplines. In honor of Martin Jay's unparalleled achievements, this volume includes work from some of the most prominent contemporary scholars in the humanities and social sciences.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 458
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780857453075
• ISBN-10: 0857453076
• Artikelnr.: 32776848

Autorenporträt

Samuel Moyn is Professor of European History at Columbia University. Elliot Neaman is Professor of European History at the University of San Francisco.

Inhaltsangabe

Editors' Preface
Chapter 1. Martin Jay and the Dialectics of Intellectual History
Lloyd Kramer
PART I: INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
Chapter 2. The Kiss of Lamourette: 'Possibilism' or 'Christian Democracy'?
David Sorkin
Chapter 3. Selves without Qualities: Duchamp, Musil, and the History of
Selfhood
Jerrold Seigel
Chapter 4. Liberty and the 'Coming-into-Being' of Natural Law: Hans Kelsen
and Ernst Cassirer
Gregory B. Moynahan
Chapter 5. The Artwork Beyond Itself: Adorno, Beethoven, and Late Style
Peter E. Gordon
Chapter 6. Marxism and Alterity: Claude Lefort and the Critique of Totality
Samuel Moyn
Chapter 7. The Return of the King: Hegelianism and Post-Marxism in Zizek
and Nancy
Warren Breckman
Chapter 8. Paradigm Shift: The Speculation of Downcast Eyes
Rosalind Krauss
PART II: VIOLENCE, MEMORY, IDENTITY
Chapter 9. Memory Culture at an Impasse: Memorials in Berlin and New York
Andreas Huyssen
Chapter 10. Against Grandiloquence: 'Victim's Culture' and Jewish Memory
Carolyn J. Dean
Chapter 11. Paris, Capital of Antifascism
Anson Rabinbach
Chapter 12. Toward a Critique of Violence
Dominick LaCapra
Chapter 13. Democratization, Turks, and the Burden of German History
Rita Chin
Chapter 14. The Gewaltfrage and Postwar West: German Generations in the
1960s
A. Dirk Moses and Elliot Neaman
PART III: CRITICAL THEORY AND GLOBAL POLITICS
Chapter 15. From 'The Dialectic of Enlightenment' to 'The Origins of
Totalitarianism' and the Genocide Convention: Adorno and Horkheimer in the
Company of Arendt and Lemkin
Seyla Benhabib
Chapter 16. Western Marxism, Morality, and Politics
Dick Howard
Chapter 17. Sovereign Equality vs. Imperial Right: The Battle Over the 'New
World Order'
Jean Cohen
Chapter 18. The Myths of Modern Identity as Ersatz Ideologies
Detlef Claussen and Michael Werz
PART IV: CODA
Chapter 19. An Interview with Martin Jay
Bibliography of the Writings of Martin Jay
Contributors
Index