The Institution of Criticism

Peter Uwe Hohendahl

Published by Cornell University Press 2016

The Institution of Criticism

Peter Uwe Hohendahl
Funded by: National Endowment for the Humanities Open Book Program

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501705434

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About this book

German radicals of the 1960s announced the death of literature. For them, literature both past and present, as well as conventional discussions of literary issues, had lost its meaning. In The Institution of Criticism, Peter Uwe Hohendahl explores the implications of this crisis from a Marxist perspective.

Author / Editor information

Peter Uwe Hohendahl is Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. He is an editor of the series Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought, which is copublished by Cornell University Press and the Cornell University Library. He is the author most recently of The Fleeting Promise of Art: Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory Revisited, also from Cornell.

Reviews

Frank Kermode:

Hohendahl provides a lot of interesting detail—for example, about the way best sellers are handled in Germany: their success may depend upon their being ideologically acceptable to the newspaper owners, and their promotion is not by means of criticism, but by the contrivance of 'media events.'

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	7
Introduction Open Access Download PDF	11
1. Literary Criticism and the Public Sphere Open Access Download PDF	44
2. Art Evaluation and Reportage: The Aesthetic Theory of the Later H Eine Open Access Download PDF	83
3. The End of an Institution ? The Debate Over the Function of Literary Criticism in the I960s Open Access Download PDF	126
4. The Task of Contemporary Literary Criticism Open Access Download PDF	159
5. Promoters, Consumers, and Critics: On the Reception of the Best-Seller Open Access Download PDF	181
6. Prolegomena to a History of Literary Criticism Open Access Download PDF	224
7. Critical Theory, Public Sphere, and Culture: Jürgen Habermas and His Critics Open Access Download PDF	242
Index Open Access Download PDF	281

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 287
Keywords: German; death of literature; German literary criticism; Marxism; capitalism; social history of literary criticism; the Frankfurt School; Jürgen Habermas

eBook

Published: November 1, 2016
ISBN: 9781501705434