Critical theory to structuralism : philosophy, politics, and the human sciences
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Critical theory to structuralism : philosophy, politics, and the human sciences
(The history of continental philosophy / general editor, Alan D. Schrift, v. 5)
Acumen, 2010
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-334) and index
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Philosophy in the middle of the 20th Century, between 1920 and 1968, responded to the cataclysmic events of the time. Thinkers on the Right turned to authoritarian forms of nationalism in search of stable forms of collective identity, will, and purpose. Thinkers on the Left promoted egalitarian forms of humanism under the banner of international communism. Others saw these opposed tendencies as converging in the extinction of the individual and sought to retrieve the ideals of the Enlightenment in ways that critically acknowledged the contradictions of a liberal democracy racked by class, cultural, and racial conflict. Key figures and movements discussed in this volume include Schmitt, Adorno and the Frankfurt School, Arendt, Benjamin, Bataille, French Marxism, Black Existentialism, Saussure and Structuralism, Levi Strauss, Lacan and Late Pragmatism. These individuals and schools of thought responded to this 'modernity crisis' in different ways, but largely focused on what they perceived to be liberal democracy's betrayal of its own rationalist ideals of freedom, equality, and fraternity.
Table of Contents
- Series Preface
- Introduction, David Ingram
- 1. Carl Schmitt and early Western Marxism, Christopher Thornhill
- 2. The origins and development of the model of early critical theory in the work of Max Horkheimer, Erich Fromm, and Herbert Marcuse, John Abromeit
- 3. Theodor W. Adorno, Deborah Cook
- 4. Walter Benjamin, James McFarland | 5. Hannah Arendt: rethinking the political, Peg Birmingham
- 6. Georges Bataille, Peter Tracey Connor
- 7. French Marxism in its heyday, William L. McBride
- 8. Black existentialism, Lewis R. Gordon
- 9. Ferdinand de Saussure and linguistic structuralism, Thomas F. Broden
- 10. Claude Levi-Strauss, Brian C. J. Singer
- 11. Jacques Lacan, Ed Pluth
- 12. Late pragmatism, logical positivism, and their aftermath, David Ingram
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