Nostalgia for a redeemed future : critical theory /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Ludovisi, Stefano Giacchetti, 1969-, Saavedra, G. Agostini
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Rome : John Cabot University Press ; [2009]
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface / Stefano Giacchetti Ludovisi
  • The concept of domination in Adorno's critical theory / Stefano Petrucciani
  • The over-bourgeois and the dissolution of subjectivity : Adorno as Nietzsche's scholar / Stefano Giacchetti Ludovisi
  • Philosophy and criticism : some observations on the notion of critical theory in Adorno / Francesco Saverio Trincia
  • No easy way out : Adorno's negativism and the problem of normativity / Fabian Freyenhagen
  • Adorno and the rediscovery of autonomy / Brian O'Connor
  • Solidarity with metaphysics at the time of its downfall : Adorno contra Heidegger / Samir Gandesha
  • Pied pipers and polymaths : the politics of Adorno's late lectures / Adrian Wilding
  • Technological rationality and the problem of meaning / Andrew Feenberg
  • Habermas, discourse ethics and doing justice to the exception : immigrants and the law / David Ingram
  • The constitution of recognition : towards a critical constitutional theory / Giovani Agostini Saavedra
  • Liberal society, emancipation and antisemitism, why current debates on antisemitism need more dialectic of Enlightenment / Marcel Stoetzler
  • Safeguarding memory against catastrophic transmission : Walter Benjamin and the memory of the shoah / Raffaella Di Castro
  • Herbert Marcuse : between technologisation and technocratisation / Maialen Galarraga
  • "Hamlet could never know the peace of a 'good ending'" : Benjamin, Derrida, and the melancholy of critical theory / Andrew Cutrofello
  • Walter Benjamin : the afterlife of an artwork as cognitive heterocracy / Brunella Antomarini
  • Equivocating aura : on Benjamin's conception of mechanical reproduction / Adam Berg
  • Walter Benjamin's theology of the corpse : allegory in Lohenstein's sophonisba / Dana Johnson
  • Adorno and the autonomy of art / Andy Hamilton
  • Toward the aesthetics of emancipation? : critical theory and the new pragmatism / Wojciech Malecki.