The Modernist Imagination : : Intellectual History and Critical Theory / / ed. by Warren Breckman, Samuel Moyn, A. Dirk Moses, Peter E. Gordon.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Benhabib, Seyla,; Breckman, Warren,; Chin, Rita,; Claussen, Detlev,; Cohen, Jean L.,; Dean, Carolyn J.,; Gordon, Peter E.,; Howard, Dick,; Huyssen, Andreas,; Kramer, Lloyd,; Krauss, Rosalind,; LaCapra, Dominick,; Moses, A. Dirk,; Moyn, Samuel,; Moynahan, Gregory B.,; Neaman, Elliot,; Rabinbach, Anson,; Seigel, Jerrold,; Sorkin, David,; Werz, Michael,
• HerausgeberIn: Breckman, Warren,; Gordon, Peter E.,; Moses, A. Dirk,; Moyn, Samuel,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2008]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (458 p.)

Some of the most exciting and innovative work in the humanities currently takes place at the intersection of intellectual history and critical theory. Just as critical theorists are becoming more aware of the historicity of theory, contemporary practitioners of modern intellectual history are recognizing their potential contributions to theoretical discourse. No one has done more than Martin Jay to realize the possibilities for mutual enrichment between intellectual history and critical theory. This carefully selected collection of essays addresses central questions and current practices of intellectual history and asks how the legacy of critical theory has influenced scholarship across a wide range of scholarly disciplines. In honor of Martin Jay's unparalleled achievements, this volume includes work from some of the most prominent contemporary scholars in the humanities and social sciences.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Martin Jay and the Dialectics of Intellectual History -- PART I: INTELLECTUAL HISTORY -- “The Kiss of Lamourette”: “Possibilism” or “Christian Democracy”? -- Selves without Qualities? Duchamp, Musil, and the History of Selfhood -- Liberty and the “Coming-into-Being” of Natural Law: Hans Kelsen and Ernst Cassirer -- The Artwork beyond Itself: Adorno, Beethoven, and Late Style -- Marxism and Alterity: Claude Lefort and the Critique of Totality -- The Return of the King: Hegelianism and Post-Marxism in Zizek and Nancy -- Paradigm Shift: The Speculation of Downcast Eyes -- PART II: VIOLENCE, MEMORY, IDENTITY -- Memory Culture at an Impasse: Memorials in Berlin and New York -- Against Grandiloquence: “Victim’s Culture” and Jewish Memory -- Paris, Capital of Anti-Fascism -- Toward a Critique of Violence -- Democratization, Turks, and the Burden of German History -- West German Generations and the Gewaltfrage: The Conflict of the Sixty-Eighters and the Forty-Fivers -- PART III: CRITICAL THEORY AND GLOBAL POLITICS -- From “the Dialectic of Enlightenment” to “the Origins of Totalitarianism” and the Genocide Convention: Adorno and Horkheimer in the Company of Arendt and Lemkin -- The Anti-Totalitarian Left between Morality and Politics -- Sovereign Equality vs. Imperial Right: The Battle over the “New World Order” -- The Myths of Modern Identity as Ersatz Ideologies -- PART IV: CODA -- Ten Questions for Martin Jay -- Publications of Martin Jay -- Doctoral Students DIRECTED BY MARTIN JAY -- Contributors -- Index