Marxist Modernism

Introductory Lectures on Frankfurt School Critical Theory

AvGillian Rose,Robert Lucas Scott

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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Marxist Modernism is a comprehensive yet concise and conversational introduction to the Frankfurt School. It is also a new resource from one of the twentieth century's most important philosophers: Gillian Rose.Her 1979 lectures on the Frankfurt School explore the lives and philosophies of a range of the school's members and affiliates, including Adorno, Lukács, Brecht, Bloch, Benjamin, and Horkheimer, and outline the way each theorist developed Marx's theory of commodity fetishism into a Marxist theory of culture.Edited by Robert Lucas Scott and James Gordon Finlayson

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Utgivningsdatum:2024-09-17
Mått:145 x 221 x 15 mm
Vikt:182 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:176
Förlag:Verso Books
Medarbetare:Martin Jay
ISBN:9781804290118

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Gillian Rose (1947-1995) was one of the twentieth century's most important philosophers and social theorists. She was a lecturer in sociology at the University of Sussex, and then chair of Social and Political Thought at the University of Warwick. She is the author of works such as Hegel Contra Sociology (1981), The Broken Middle: Out of Our Ancient Society (1992), and her memoir Love's Work: A Reckoning with Life (1995).

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This is the best starting place for a new generation of Rose-readers, a reminder of where it all began, when modernists could still be Marxists and theologians belonged to a previous age. A treat for the Roserati.

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Editors' Introduction: Gillian Rose and the Difficulty of Critical Theory | Robert Lucas Scott and James Gordon FinlaysonMarxist Modernism | Gillian Rose1. Introduction: Marxist Modernism2. The Politics of Realism: Georg Lukács3. The Greatness and Decline of Expressionism: Ernst Bloch4. The Battle Over Walter Benjamin5. The Dialectic of Enlightenment: Horkheimer and Adorno6. Liquidating Aesthetics: Brecht7. The Search for Style: Adorno; Kafka or Mann?Afterword | Martin JayIndex