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Confronting mass democracy and industrial technology : political and social theory from Nietzsche to Habermas / edited by John P. McCormick.

Other author/creatorMcCormick, John P., 1966-
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoDurham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2002.
Description368 pages ; 25 cm
Subject(s)
Contents Love, passion, and maturity: Nietzsche and Weber on science, morality, and politics / Tracy B. Strong -- Post-utopian Marxism: Lukács and the dilemmas of organization / Andrew Feenberg -- Herbert Marcuse: a critical retrospective from Berlin to Berkeley / Richard Wolin -- History lesson on the S-bahn: Brecht's cartography of capital / Richard Dienst -- The Geist in the machine: Freud, the uncanny, and technology / Gia Pascarelli -- The soul in the age of society and technology: Helmuth Plessner's defensive liberalism / Jan-Werner Müller -- Leviathan in the 1930s: the reception of Hobbes in the Third Reich / David Dyzenhaus -- Revisionism and orthodoxy: Stalinism and political thought in the German Democratic Republic's founding decade / Peter C. Caldwell -- Unsolved paradoxes: conservative political thought in Adenauer's Germany / William E. Scheuerman -- Destruktion or recovery?: Leo Strauss's critique of Heidegger / Steven B. Smith -- A critical versus genealogical "questioning" of technology: notes on how not to read Adorno and Horkheimer / John P. McCormick -- Provocation and appropriation: Hannah Arendt's response to Martin Heidegger / Richard J. Bernstein -- Disembodying democracy: gendered discourse in Habermas's legalistic turn / Nancy S. Love -- Reversing the dialectic of enlightenment: the reenchantment of the world / Seyla Benhabib.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2001053210
ISBN0822327783 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0822327880 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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