| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 332 pages) |
| Series |
Cultural memory in the present |
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Cultural memory in the present.
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| Contents |
"Jazz, the wound" : negative identity, culture, and the shadow of race -- America, or the stranger -- Negative identities of the subject in wartime America -- Critical theory goes to war : the critique of positive identity and positive science -- Negative modeling : objectivity, normativity, and the refusal of the universal -- Subject/object and disciplinarity |
| Summary |
Covering the period of the Frankfurt School's exile in the United States, this book examines how the critique of racism, authoritarianism, and hard-right agitation impacted the American and German individual's self-conception (identity), while examining how a new form of politics, based on defining an Other, has shaped our everyday language, institutions, and social world |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969
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| SUBJECT |
Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969 fast |
| Subject |
Identity (Philosophical concept) -- History
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Critical theory -- United States -- History
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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Critical theory
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Identity (Philosophical concept)
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781503606074 |
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1503606074 |
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