Research Catalog

Title

Dialectic of enlightenment : critical theory and the messianic light / Jacob Klapwijk.

Author

Klapwijk, Jacob.

Publication

Eugene, Or. : Wipf & Stock Publishers, c2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Yallop, Colin.
• Yallop, P.M.

Description

xiv, 109 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"A thought-provoking introduction to the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Critical theory aims to unmask modern reason and liberate society. But a fundamental question keeps coming back: how can this critique of modernity remain viable within a repressive social system? Is reason in the modern world indeed doomed to self-destruct? Does rationality inevitably lead to domination and oppression? Jacob Klapwijk argues that the dialectic of enlightenment proves to be a faith, a mythical faith encouraging resignation and despair. Instead we need a wholesome reason, one inspired by a messianic faith."--From publisher.

Subject

• Critical theory
• Dialectic
• Frankfurt school of sociology
• Criticism > Germany
• Marxist criticism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 99-103) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

What is the "dialectic of enlightenment"? -- The "critical theory" of Horkheimer and Adorno -- Marcuse and the "eroticization of culture" -- The political Marcuse -- Adorno and the negative dialectic -- Habermas and technocratic ideology -- Criticism and liberation in Habermas -- Horkheimer and religious yearning -- The myth and the Messianic light.

ISBN

• 1608997014
• 9781608997015

OCLC

• 665196416
• SCSB-11869271

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library