Immanent critiques: the Frankfurt School under pressure

"Martin Jay reflects on the Frankfurt School's legacy, turning the school's practice of "immanent critique" in on itself, applying critical pressure on a number of its own ideas to probe for their contradictory impulses. He unearths and examines the pathologization of politi...

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Main Author: Jay, Martin 1944- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York Verso 2023
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Online Access:EUV01
Summary:"Martin Jay reflects on the Frankfurt School's legacy, turning the school's practice of "immanent critique" in on itself, applying critical pressure on a number of its own ideas to probe for their contradictory impulses. He unearths and examines the pathologization of political deviance through stigmatizing "authoritarian personalities," the undefended theological premises of Walter Benjamin's work, and the ambivalence of its members' analyses of anti-Semitism and Zionism. Additional questions include the advocacy of a politics based on a singular notion of the truth"--
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:1804292532
9781804292532
9781804292549

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