Modernism and the Frankfurt School

Tyrus Miller

book: Modernism and the Frankfurt School

Open Access Published by Edinburgh University Press 2014

Modernism and the Frankfurt School

Tyrus Miller

In the series Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748694716

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Provides a single-volume introduction to the important connection of Frankfurt School thought and modernist culture

Introduces well-studied major figures such as Benjamin and Adorno in a new light, while connecting their ideas with problems in modernist art and culture
Offers a clear, thorough, and relevant survey of major ideas and figures
Provides a revisionary view of the rigorous connection of Frankfurt School theory and modernist culture

Tyrus Miller's book offers readers a focused introduction to the Frankfurt School's important attempts to relate the social, political, and philosophical conditions of modernity to innovations in twentieth-century art, literature, and culture. The book pursues this interaction of modernity and modernist aesthetics in a two-sided, dialectical approach. Not only, Miller suggests, can the Frankfurt School's penetrating critical analyses of the phenomena of modernity help us develop more nuanced, historically informed and contextually sensitive analyses of modernist culture; but also, modernist culture provides a field of problems, examples, and practices that intimately affected the formation of the Frankfurt School's theoretical ideas.

The individual chapters, which include detailed discussions of Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse as well as a survey of later Frankfurt School influenced thinkers, discuss the ideas of a given figure with an emphasis on particular artistic media or contexts: Benjamin with lyric poetry and architecture as urban art forms; Adorno with music; Marcuse with the liberationist art performances and happenings of the 1960s.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Series Editors’ Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
List of Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
1 Modernism and the Frankfurt School Open Access Download PDF	1
2 Walter Benjamin Open Access Download PDF	35
3 Theodor Adorno Open Access Download PDF	77
4 Herbert Marcuse Open Access Download PDF	114
5 The New Wave: Modernism and Modernity in the Later Frankfurt School Open Access Download PDF	147
Index Open Access Download PDF	177

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 192
Keywords: Literary Studies

eBook

Published: May 14, 2014
ISBN: 9780748694716