| Document Type
|
:
|
BL
|
| Record Number
|
:
|
800487
|
| Doc. No
|
:
|
b620548
|
| Main Entry
|
:
|
Jacob Klapwijk; translated from the Dutch by C.L. Yallop and P.M. Yallop.
|
| Title & Author
|
:
|
Dialectic of enlightenment : : critical theory and the messianic light\ Jacob Klapwijk; translated from the Dutch by C.L. Yallop and P.M. Yallop.
|
| Publication Statement
|
:
|
Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2010
|
| Page. NO
|
:
|
xiv, 109 pages ; 23 cm
|
| ISBN
|
:
|
1608997014
|
|
|
:
|
: 9781608997015
|
| Notes
|
:
|
Originally published as Dialektiek der verlichting : Een verkenning in het neomarxisme van de Frankfurter Schule, inaugural address at the Free University, Amsterdam. Van Gorcum, Assen/Amsterdam, 1976, Second edition, 1977.
|
| 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.
|
| Abstract
|
:
|
"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." --Publisher.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Critical theory.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Dialectic.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Frankfurt school of sociology.
|
| LC Classification
|
:
|
B809.7J336 2010
|
| Added Entry
|
:
|
Colin Yallop
|
|
|
:
|
Jacob Klapwijk
|
|
|
:
|
P M Yallop
|
| Parallel Title
|
:
|
Dialektiek der verlichting.
|