Force Fields : Between Intellectual History and Cultural Critique

Name: Force Fields:Between Intellectual History and Cultural Critique
ISBN: 9781315021324

doi:10.4324/9781315021324

ABSTRACT

Force Fields collects the recent essays of Martin Jay, an intellectual historian and cultural critic internationally known for his extensive work on the history of Western Marxism and the intellectual migration from Germany to America.

Force Fields

ABSTRACT

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |9 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|15 pages

Urban Flights: The Institute of Social Research between Frankfurt and New York

chapter 2|13 pages

The Debate over Performative Contradiction: Habermas versus the Poststructuralists

chapter 3|11 pages

The Morals of Genealogy: Or Is There a Poststructuralist Ethics?

chapter 4|12 pages

The Reassertion of Sovereignty in a Time of Crisis: Carl Schmitt and Georges Bataille

chapter 5|10 pages

Women in Dark Times: Agnes Heller and Hannah Arendt

chapter 6|13 pages

“The Aesthetic Ideology” as Ideology: Or What Does It Mean to Aestheticize Politics?

chapter 7|15 pages

The Apocalyptic Imagination and the Inability to Mourn

chapter 8|15 pages

The Rise of Hermeneutics and the Crisis of Ocularcentrism

chapter 9|20 pages

Scopic Regimes of Modernity

chapter 10|13 pages

Ideology and Ocularcentrism: Is There Anything Behind the Mirror's Tain?

chapter 11|11 pages

Modernism and the Retreat from Form

chapter 12|9 pages

The Textual Approach to Intellectual History

chapter 13|13 pages

Name-Dropping or Dropping Names? Modes of Legitimation in the Humanities