Gerhard Schweppenhäuser ; translated by James Rolleston.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Durham [NC] :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Duke University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2009.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xii, 182 pages ;
Dimensions
23 cm
SERIES
Series Title
Post-contemporary interventions
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-177) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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The project of renewing childhood by transforming one's life -- Critical theory -- Reason's self-criticism -- Defined negation -- The two faces of enlightenment -- Rescuing what is beyond hope -- Philosophy from the perspective of redemption -- Primacy of the object -- The totally socialized society -- The concept of society -- Liquidation of the individual -- Critical theory on morality -- The goal of the emancipated society -- The powerless utopia of beauty -- The destruction and salvation of art -- The silence of music -- The transition from art to knowledge -- Theorizing art and culture in the institute for social research -- Benjamin and kracauer: theorizing mass art -- Anarchistic and bourgeois romanticism: Adorno's critique of Benjamin -- The work of art and the concept of truth -- The failure of culture -- The radically pathetic and guilty culture -- Enlightenment as mass deception.