This book outlines the most important points of intersection between early phenomenology and critical theory. This book also attests to the versatility of the phenomenological method, which can be shown to have influenced a wide array of approaches within the critical tradition.
Christian Ferencz-Flatz (n. 1981) is a researcher at the Alexandru Dragomir Institute for Philosophy and an associated professor at the National University of Theatre and Film. He is a former fellow of the Alexander Humboldt Foundation. His research interests concern classical german phenomenology, critical theory, film and image theories. His most recent publications include the monographs Sehen Als-ob. Ästhetik und Pragmatik in Husserls Bildlehre (Bautz, 2016) and Filmul ca situație socială (Tact, 2018), as well as the 2016 and 2018 issues of Studia Phaenomenologica: Film and Phenomenology (with J. Hanich) and The Promise of Genetic Phenomenology (with A. Staiti).
Innehållsförteckning
1. The Function of Pre-theoretical Experience in Critical Theory and Phenomenology.- 2. Eidetic Intuition and Physiognomic Interpretation.- 3. Adorno’s Genetic Phenomenology.- 4. On Radio. Phenomenology and Critical Media Studies.- 5. Benjamin and the Essence of Phenomenology.- 6. Tactile Reception and Life-Worldly Circumspection.- 7. History at the Crossroads: Heidegger and Surrealism .- 8. Statistic Intersubjectivity. A Phenomenology of Television Audiences.- 9. Kracauer: The Birth of Dialectics from Phenomenological Sociology.- 10. Sancho Panza and the Dialectics of Historic Film.- 11. Conclusions.