Reason and Horror | Critical Theory, Democracy and Aesthetic Individua

Book

Reason and Horror

ABSTRACT

Morton Schoolman develops a fascinating and entirely new interpretation of the work of Horkenheimer and Adorno.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |27 pages

Introduction: Reason and Horror

part |1 pages

Individuality Before the Holocaust

chapter |23 pages

Reason as a “Murderous Principle”

chapter |33 pages

Dialectic of Enlightenment as a Genealogy of Reason

chapter |32 pages

Aesthetic Individuality by analogy: Dialectic of Enlightenment and the Birth and Death of Tragedy

chapter |29 pages

Recovering Aesthetic Individuality from Art: Aesthetic Reason in Adorno'S Aesthetic Theory

part |1 pages

Surfaces

chapter |37 pages

An Ethic of Appearances

chapter |46 pages

Individuality as a Poetic Form of Life

chapter |18 pages

Democracy as an Aesthetic Form of Life

chapter |53 pages

Aesthetic Individuality as a Democratic Achievement

chapter |11 pages

Conclusion

Individuality After the Holocaust