Reason and Horror

Critical Theory, Democracy and Aesthetic Individuality
1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-415-93027-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 360 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 675 g

Morton Schoolman develops a fascinating and entirely new interpretation of the work of Horkenheimer and Adorno.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schoolman, Morton

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophische Logik, Argumentationstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 Introduction: Reason and Horror; Part 1 Individuality Before the Holocaust; Chapter 2 Reason as a “Murderous Principle”; Chapter 3 Dialectic of Enlightenment as a Genealogy of Reason; Chapter 4 Aesthetic Individuality by analogy: Dialectic of Enlightenment and the Birth and Death of Tragedy; Chapter 5 Recovering Aesthetic Individuality from Art: Aesthetic Reason in Adorno’S Aesthetic Theory; Part 2 Surfaces; Chapter 6 An Ethic of Appearances; Chapter 7 Individuality as a Poetic Form of Life; Chapter 8 Democracy as an Aesthetic Form of Life; Chapter 9 Aesthetic Individuality as a Democratic Achievement; Chapter 10 Conclusion;

Über Autor(innen)

Morton Schoolman is Professor of Political Science at SUNY Albany, and the author of The Imaginary Witness: The Critical Theory of Herbert Marcuse.