Immanent critiques : the Frankfurt School under pressure / Martin Jay.

Author/creator Jay, Martin, 1944- author.
Format Book
PublicationLondon ; New York : Verso, 2023.
Description240 pages ; 24 cm
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Contents 1968 in an Expanded Field: The Frankfurt School and the Uneven Course of History -- Adorno and the Role of Sublimation in Artistic Creativity and Cultural Redemption -- Blaming the Victim? Arendt, Adorno and Erikson on the Jewish Responsibility for Anti-Semitism -- The Authoritarian Personality and the Problematic Pathologization of Politics -- The Age of Rackets? Trump, Scorsese and the Frankfurt School -- Go Figure: Fredric Jameson on Walter Benjamin -- Leib, Körper and the Body Politic -- Marx and Mendacity: Can There Be a Politics without Hypocrisy?
Abstract "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Jay, Martin, 1944- Immanent critiques London ; New York : Verso, 2023 9781804292532
LCCN 2023019886
ISBN9781804292525
ISBN1804292524
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