The Modernist Imagination

Intellectual History and Critical Theory
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-85745-307-5
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 458 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 658 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Breckman, Warren

Gordon, Peter E.

Moses, A. Dirk

Moyn, Samuel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Moses, A. Dirk
A. Dirk Moses is Chair of Global and Colonial History at the European University Institute, Florence / University of Sydney.

Breckman, Warren
Warren Breckman is Associate Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania and executive editor of the Journal of the History of Ideas.

Gordon, Peter E.
Peter E. Gordon is Professor of European History at Harvard University.

Moyn, Samuel
Samuel Moyn is Professor of European History at Columbia University.

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

Warren Breckman is Associate Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania and executive editor of the Journal of the History of Ideas.