Theodor Adorno and the century of negative identity
Covering the period of the Frankfurt School's exile in the United States, this book examines how the critique of racism, authoritarianism, and hard-right agitation impacted the American and German individual's self-conception (identity), while examining how a new form of politics, based on...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Stanford, California : Stanford University Press,
2018
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Cultural Memory in the Present Ser
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| Schlagworte: | Adorno, Theodor W.,-1903-1969 Identity (Philosophical concept)-History Critical theory-United States-History Identity (Philosophical concept) Critical theory Electronic books |
| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (353 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | Covering the period of the Frankfurt School's exile in the United States, this book examines how the critique of racism, authoritarianism, and hard-right agitation impacted the American and German individual's self-conception (identity), while examining how a new form of politics, based on defining an Other, has shaped our everyday language, institutions, and social world Introduction -- 1. "Jazz, the Wound": Negative Identity, Culture, and the Shadow of Race -- 2. America -- or, the Stranger -- 3. Negative Identities of the Subject in Wartime America -- 4. Critical Theory Goes to War: The Critique of Positive Identity and Positive Science -- 5. Negative Modeling: Objectivity, Normativity, and the Refusal of the Universal -- 6. Subject/Object and Disciplinarity -- Conclusion |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (353 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781503606074 1503606074 9780804799249 0804799245 |