[FRA:] Frankfurt School anthologies

Tue Feb 14 00:54:13 GMT 2006

Hello all,

New to this list, which seems surprisingly active - a welcome change! As 
regards English-language Frankfurt School anthologies, this is on a slightly 
different track, but for 'secondary' material, still working broadly within 
the CT tradition, I would reccomend 'The Cambridge Companion to Critical 
Theory' Ed. Fred Rush (CUP 2004), which includes contributions from Raymond 
Geuss, Joel Whitebook, and Hauke Brunkhorst, among others. Also worth 
checking out is Doug Kellner's 'Illuminations' website 
(http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/kellner/Illumina%20Folder/) which is in 
the process of being updated.

Chris

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>    1. Re: Frankfurt School readers/ anthologies (Ralph Dumain)
>    2. Re: Reason (simon smith)
>    3. RE: Reason (matthew piscioneri)
>    4. Auschwitz beginnit da, wo jemand auf dem Schlachthof steht
>       und denkt: Es sind ja nur Tiere. (Michael Reno)
>    5. RE: Reason (correction!) (matthew piscioneri)
>    6. Re: Auschwitz beginnit da,	wo jemand auf dem Schlachthof
>       steht und denkt: Es sind ja nur Tiere. (simon smith)
>    7. Re: Frankfurt School readers/ anthologies (simon smith)
>    8. Re: Frankfurt School readers/ anthologies (JJackNye at aol.com)
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>Message: 1
>Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 13:13:53 -0500
>From: Ralph Dumain <rdumain at igc.org>
>Subject: Re: [FRA:] Frankfurt School readers/ anthologies
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>Thanks.  Very helpful.  It's important for one of my projects and also
>useful to compare anthologies and see what are considered to be key works.
>
>At 12:36 PM 2/12/2006 +0100, Alon Lischinsky wrote:
> >On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 06:57:05PM -0500, Ralph Dumain wrote:
> >
> > > I don't have a table of contents for this one, so it would be nice if
> > > someone could send it to me:
> > >
> > > Critical Theory: The Essential Readings, edited by David Ingram & 
>Julia
> > > Simon-Ingram. New York: Paragon House, 1992. (Paragon Issues in 
>Philosophy)
> >
> >Here it goes. I cannot comment on the quality and authorship of the
> >translations, as I retrieved this from an online database that does not
> >furnish
> >this information.
>..........
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>Message: 2
>Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 21:48:42 +0000
>From: simon smith <moomin at clara.co.uk>
>Subject: Re: [FRA:] Reason
>To: Alexei Procyshyn <proca430 at newschool.edu>
>Cc: moomin at clara.co.uk, theory-frankfurt-school at srcf.ucam.org
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>In message <s3eea7a2.082 at IGATE.NEWSCHOOL.EDU>, Alexei Procyshyn
><proca430 at newschool.edu> writes
> >Simon,
> >
> >I suggest you read the preface to to the Dialectic of Enlightment --
> >where Adorno and Horkheimer write,
> >
> >"we have no doubt -- and herein lies our petitio principii -- that
> >freedom in society is inseperable form enlightenment thinking" (xvi).
>
>I think it has become clear that the almost exact identification of
>Adorno's and Horkheimer's work on DoE was wishful thinking on the part
>of Adorno, in deference to his mentor and friend.
>
>  From Dialectic of Enlightenment, Editor's afterword, page 221:-
>
>" "Preface": This is present among Horkheimer's posthumous papers in a
>number of typed sections which bear numerous handwritten corrections by
>Horkheimer and a few corrections by Adorno. No draft is to be found in
>Adorno's posthumous papers." "
>
>(As I remember Robert Hullot-Kentor, in "Back to Adorno," Telos 81, does
>a detailed dissection the authorship of DofE, but I would have to go to
>the local university library to read it. Hullot-Kentor is at great pains
>to distinguish Adorno's thought from Horkheimer's.)
>
>Stealing from Ralph Dumain's recent post:-
>
>"As Susan Buck-Morss has shown, on this point Adorno stood much closer
>to the "dialectic of enlightenment" than to the concept of
>"interdisciplinary materialism" and precisely this emphasis was probably
>what hindered his line of thought from achieving more influence on the
>development of early critical theory. For Horkheimer at the beginning of
>the 1930s, there could be no question of anticipating the "dialectic of
>enlightenment." Like Adorno, he saw an increasing trend toward
>irrationalism but did not interpret these symptoms of a crisis as an
>irreversible destruction of reason. Rather, they appeared as a
>temporary, socially conditioned regression that was to be illuminated by
>the positive, specialized sciences. And the integration of these
>sciences, in turn, was understood to be fundamentally rational, inasmuch
>as the "detour" of analyzing the regression would uncover the
>possibility of bringing about a realization of reason."
>
>Wolfgang BonB, "The Program of Interdisciplinary Research and the
>Beginnings of Critical Theory," p120.
>
>
>Again stealing from Ralph Dumain: Habermas:
>
>"Horkheimer is troubled by this aporia. He shies away from the
>conclusion that the very act of enlightened knowledge is affected by the
>process of self-destruction, depriving it of its liberating effect. He
>would rather entangle himself in contradictions than give up his
>identity as an enlightener and fall into Nietzscheanism. The old trust
>was obstinately reaffirmed in the preface: "Enlightenment must reflect
>on itself if humanity is not to be totally betrayed" "(DA, 5/DE, xv).
>Jurgen Habermas, "Remarks on the Development of Horkheimer's Work,"
>p56-59.
>
>
>My feeling is that for Adorno 'instrumental reason' was _intrinsic_ to
>the Enlightenment (god I'm fed up of typing that word) and to its
>success as a form of domination, a new myth.
>Yet somehow Enlightenment also clears room for the possibility of a
>substantive reason, one that is open to non-identity. Quite how though,
>is not elucidated in DofE.
>
>I'll come back to you if the library lets me see the Telos Hullot-Kentor
>essay.
>
>--
>Simon Smith
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>Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 22:10:58 +0000
>From: "matthew piscioneri" <mpiscioneri at hotmail.com>
>Subject: RE: [FRA:] Reason
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>Simon,
>
>it's also interesting to read Habermas's comments in his essay Myth/Reason 
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>the Entwinement etc.,
>
>where he argues that at no time did H & A give up on the Enlightenment. If
>you like I can find the exact quote --- it's just that I don't have to hand
>at present.
>
>best,
>
>mattP
>
>
>
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>Message: 4
>Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 17:39:13 -0500
>From: Michael Reno <renomich at msu.edu>
>Subject: [FRA:] Auschwitz beginnit da, wo jemand auf dem Schlachthof
>	steht und denkt: Es sind ja nur Tiere.
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>I may have hunted down the source of this erroneous Adorno quote.  I
>found it in English in Charles Patterson's book, Eternal Treblinka: Our
>Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust.  His citation is basically,
>"quoted in Christa Blanke, Da kraehte der Hahn: Kirche fuer Tiere? Eine
>Streitschrift.  Turning to the page in Blanke's book with the quote
>(p.48), what do I find but this sentence:  "Theodor W. Adorno soll
>gesagt haben: 'Auschwitz beginnit da, wo jemand auf dem Schlachthof
>steht und denkt: Es sind ja nur Tiere.'"
>My german isn't great, but isn't the best translation for "soll gesagt
>haben," "should have said"?
>
>
>
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>Message: 5
>Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 23:00:27 +0000
>From: "matthew piscioneri" <mpiscioneri at hotmail.com>
>Subject: RE: [FRA:] Reason (correction!)
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>This is what happens when you try to work from memory on a Monday morning
>:-). The following quotes are from interviews with Habermas collated in
>_Autonomy & Solidarity_ apologies for the confusion.
>
>The framing statements are mine from my dissertation on Habermas _The Myth
>of Reason_ (2004), which can be accessed on Gary's Habermas, Yahoo Groups
>site if anyone be interested.
>
>
>Habermas insists that Horkheimer and Adorno’s counter-Enlightenment 
>critique
>takes place still within the broad theoretical framework of the
>Enlightenment: ‘Even in the Dialectic of Enlightenment the impulse of the
>Enlightenment is not betrayed’ (1992: 222). In another interview Habermas
>states his position more directly:
>
>"At no point does Adorno’s and Horkheimer’s critique of reason darken to a
>renunciation of what the great philosophical tradition, and in particular
>the Enlightenment once intended, however vainly, by the concept of reason."
>(1992: 152)
>
>However, Habermas’s preferential treatment of Horkheimer and Adorno is best
>exposed by the sharpness of the tone he reserves for his discussion of
>Nietzsche’s work and that of Nietzsche’s post-structuralist “disciples”
>Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida. There is no saving grace or sign of
>forgiveness extended either to Nietzsche, Foucault or Derrida:
>
>"What separates him [Adorno] from these two figures [Derrida and Foucault]
>as from Nietzsche himself – and this seems to be politically decisive
>[emphases mine] – is simply this: Adorno does not merely bale out of the
>counter-discourse which has inhabited modernity ever since the beginning;
>rather, in his desperate adherence to the procedure of determinate 
>negation,
>he remains true to the idea that there is no cure for the wounds of
>Enlightenment other than the radicalized Enlightenment itself."(1992: 155)
>
>regards,
>
>mattP
>
>
>
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>Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 03:13:40 +0000
>From: simon smith <moomin at clara.co.uk>
>Subject: Re: [FRA:] Auschwitz beginnit da,	wo jemand auf dem
>	Schlachthof steht und denkt: Es sind ja nur Tiere.
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>In message <43EFB911.4020003 at msu.edu>, Michael Reno <renomich at msu.edu>
>writes
> >I may have hunted down the source of this erroneous Adorno quote.  I
> >found it in English in Charles Patterson's book, Eternal Treblinka: Our
> >Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust.  His citation is basically,
> >"quoted in Christa Blanke, Da kraehte der Hahn: Kirche fuer Tiere? Eine
> >Streitschrift. Turning to the page in Blanke's book with the quote
> >(p.48), what do I find but this sentence:  "Theodor W. Adorno soll
> >gesagt haben: 'Auschwitz beginnit da, wo jemand auf dem Schlachthof
> >steht und denkt: Es sind ja nur Tiere.'" My german isn't great, but
> >isn't the best translation for "soll gesagt haben," "should have said"?
>
>I think it's closer to "is said to have said"
>
>or  in everyday English- "is supposed to have said" Great scholarship.
>
>I found that Patterson's book has positive reviews all over the web,
>including mainstream publications. It's an argument for vegetarianism as
>well as against the treatment of animals. It doesn't seem to have stuck
>anyone that comparisons with Treblinka might harm any movement against
>the mass cruelty to animals (with which I have great sympathy) rather
>than further it.
>
>I'm a vegetarian, but this is an example of why I could never commit
>myself to 'vegetarianism'.
>
>--
>Simon Smith
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>Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 03:37:31 +0000
>From: simon smith <moomin at clara.co.uk>
>Subject: Re: [FRA:] Frankfurt School readers/ anthologies
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>In message <5.1.0.14.0.20060211181414.042418c8 at pop.igc.org>, Ralph
>Dumain <rdumain at igc.org> writes
> >The Frankfurt School on Religion: Key Writings by the Major Thinkers,
> >edited by Eduardo Mendieta.
> >New York: Routledge, 2004.
>
>Table of Contents
>
>Introduction
>1. Ernst Bloch
>On the Original History of the Third Reich
>Not Hades, but Heaven on Earth
>Hunger, "Something in a Dream"
>God of Hope, Thing-For-Us
>Marx and the End of Alienation
>
>2. Erich Fromm
>The Dogma of Christ
>
>3. Leo Löwenthal
>The Demonic: Project for a Negative Philosophy of Religion
>
>4. Herbert Marcuse
>Luther, Calvin, Kant
>
>5. Theodor Adorno
>Reason and Sacrifice
>Reason and Revelation
>Meditations on Metaphysics
>
>6. Max Horkheimer
>Theism and Atheism
>The Jews and Europe
>Religion and Philosophy
>Observations on the Liberalization of Religion
>
>7. Walter Benjamin
>Capitalism and Religion
>Theological-Political Fragment
>Theses on the Philosophy of History
>
>8. Johann Baptiste Metz
>Productive Noncontemporaneity
>Anamnestic Reason: A Theologian's Remarks on the Crisis of the
>Geisteswisesnschaften
>
>9. Jurgen Habermas
>Transcendence from Within, Transcendence in this World
>Faith and Knowledge
>
>10. Helmut Peukert
>Enlightenment and Theology as Unfinished Projects
>
>11. Edmund Arens
>Religion as Ritual, Communicative, and Critical Praxis
>
>As you may know Adorno, 'Reason and Revelation' is also to be found in
>the 'Critical Models' collection of Adorno's articles and broadcasts
>(excellent piece); 'Meditations on Metaphysics' is part three of
>'Negative Dialectics' http://tinyurl.com/8b6zg
>but I don't know where 'Reason and Sacrifice' comes from.
>
>I'd like to read the Löwenthal piece.
>
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>In a message dated 13-02-06 3:39:31 GMT Standard Time, moomin at clara.co.uk
>writes:
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>I'd like  to read the Löwenthal piece.
>
>I'd like to see it too, but Löwenthal himself was rather disparaging of it
>at the end of his life, calling it
>
>a youthful sin of mine, an essay pompously called "The Demonic,"
>
>in an article remembering Kracauer in New German  Critique  (AS I REMEMBER
>FRIEDEL, Fall91, Issue  54)
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>Regards,
>Jack  Nye
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