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Author:   John P. McCormick ,  John McCormick
Publisher:   Duke University Press
Imprint:   Duke University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.590kg
ISBN:  

9780822327882

ISBN 10:   0822327880
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   12 June 2002
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments I. Rationality and Politics at the Outset of the Century Love, Passion, and Maturity: Nietzsche and Weber on Science, Morality, and Politics / Tracy B. Strong II. Strategies of Progressive Political Action in an Age of Technological Transformation Post-Utopian Marxism: Lukacs and the Dilemmas of Organization / Andrew Feenberg Herbert Marcuse: A Critical Retrospective from Berlin to Berkeley / Richard Wolin III. Socio-Literary Theory: Unlikely Sources for a Critique of Capitalism? History Lesson on the S-Bahn: Brecht’s Cartography of Capital / Richard Dienst The Geist in the Machine: Freud, the Uncanny, and Technology / Gia Pascarelli IV. Society and State as Machine in the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich The Soul in the Age of Society and Technology: Helmuth Plessner’s Defensive Liberalism / Jan-Werner Muller Leviathan in the 1930s: The Reception of Hobbes in the Third Reich / David Dyzenhaus V. Theories of Technocracy in Two Postwar Germanies Revisionism and Orthodoxy: Stalinism and Political Thought in the German Democratic Republic’s Founding Decade / Peter C. Caldwell Unsolved Paradoxes: Conservative Political Thought in Adenauer’s Germany / William E. Scheuerman VI. Throwing Off the Yoke of “the German Master” Destruktion or Recovery?: Leo Strauss’s Critique of Heidegger A Critical versus Genealogical “Questioning” of Technology: Notes on How Not to Read Adorno and Horkheimer / John P. McCormick Provocation and Appropriation: Hannah Arendt’s Response to Martin Heidegger VII. Critical Democratic Theory at Century’s End: Language, Gender, Ethnicity Disembodying Democracy: Gendered Discourse in Habermas’s Legalistic Turn / Nancy S. Love Reversing the Dialectic of Enlightenment: The Reenchantment of the World / Seyla Benhabib Contributors Index

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"""The contributors to Confronting Mass Democracy and Industrial Technology are a highly diverse yet uniformly first-rate lot. This rich volume is sure to attract scholarly attention in a variety of fields. There is nothing else like it in print."" - Stephen Holmes, Princeton University"

The contributors to Confronting Mass Democracy and Industrial Technology are a highly diverse yet uniformly first-rate lot. This rich volume is sure to attract scholarly attention in a variety of fields. There is nothing else like it in print. - Stephen Holmes, Princeton University

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John McCormick is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University. He is the author of Carl Schmitt’s Critique of Liberalism: Against Politics as Technology.

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