Feminism and the Early Frankfurt School / / Christine A. Payne, Jeremiah Morelock, editors.

• Superior document: Studies in Critical Social Sciences Series ; v.271
• TeilnehmendeR: Payne, Christine A.,; Morelock, Jeremiah,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : BRILL,, 2024.
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Critical Social Sciences Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xlviii, 378 pages)

"The early Frankfurt School and feminism can and should inform each other. This volume presents an original collection of scholarship bringing together scholars of the Frankfurt School and feminist scholars. Essays included in the volume explore ideas from the early Frankfurt School that were explicitly focused on sex, gender, and sexuality, and bring ideas from the early Frankfurt School into productive dialogue with historical and contemporary feminist theory. Ranging across philosophy, sociology, gender and sexuality studies, science studies, and cultural studies, the essays investigate heteropatriarchy, essentialism, identity, intersectional feminism, and liberation. Set against an alarming context of growing gender and related forms of authoritarianism, this timely volume demonstrates the necessity of thinking these powerhouse approaches together in a united front"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Part 1 Culture and Class: the Libidinal Politics of Authoritarianism -- Chapter 1 Sex, Hope, and Rock and Roll: Radical Feminism and the Freudian Left -- 1 The Tradition of Cultural Radicalism -- 2 Women's Liberation, Human Liberation -- 3 Freud and Feminism -- 4 The End of Work -- 5 The Culture of Narcissism and the Reunification of Eros -- 6 Mass Culture and Politics -- 7 No Surrender -- References -- Chapter 2 Fascism and the Patriarchal Family: The Studies of Authoritarianism at the Institute for Social Research -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Social Psychology of Nazism -- 3 The Studies of Family and Authority -- 3.1 Horkheimer on the Family -- 3.2 Fromm on the Sociopsychological Dimensions of Family and Authority -- 3.3 Marcuse on Philosophies of Freedom and Authority -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3 Family and Authoritarianism -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Max Horkheimer - Crises and Family in Late Capitalism -- 3 Melinda Cooper - Crises and Family between Neoconservatism and Neoliberalism -- 4 Final Remarks -- References -- Chapter 4 Rethinking "Toxic" Sovereignty?: On Horkheimer and Adorno's "Second Nature" between Nietzsche's "Bad Conscience" and Freud's "Death Drive" -- 1 Toxic Sovereignties -- 2 Second Nature and/as Nietzsche's "Bad Conscience" -- 3 Second Nature and/as Freud's "Death Drive" -- 4 Toxic Implantation(s) -- References -- Part 2 Power, Truth, and (Non)Identity -- Chapter 5 Marcuse's "Feminine Principle" and Non-binary Subversions -- 1 De Sade's Justine/Juliette Dichotomy and the Replaying of Patriarchal Norms -- 2 LGBTQIA2S+, an Apt Site for Negative Dialectics? -- 3 "Archaic Supremacy": the Sirens' Song and the Power of Aesthetic Receptivity.

4 Conclusion: the Feminine Principle as Political Praxis -- References -- Chapter 6 Towards a Critical Identity Politics: Butler, Adorno, and the Force of Non-identity -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Performativity and the Paradox of Identity -- 3 Adorno's Philosophy: from Failure to Critique -- 4 The Persistence of Dialectics in Butler's Work -- 5 The Negative Dialectics of Identity and Difference -- References -- Chapter 7 Adorno, Foucault, and Feminist Theory: The Politics of Truth -- 1 Power Dynamics -- 1.1 Feminism and Forms of Power -- 1.2 Foucault: Disciplinary Power and Biopolitics -- 1.2.1 Disciplinary Power -- 1.2.2 State Biopower -- 1.3 Adorno: Three Modes of Domination -- 2 Truth Matters -- 2.1 Feminist Contentions -- 2.2 Foucault: Regimes of Truth -- 2.3 Adorno: Truth as Constellation -- 3 Power, Truth, and Social Critique -- 3.1 Social Domains of Truth -- 3.2 Normative Critique of Power -- 3.3 Collaboration and Social Hope -- References -- Chapter 8 The Disintegration of Autonomy: Jill Johnston's Anti-criticism -- 1 Johnston's Anti-criticism -- 2 A Blinded Consciousness -- 3 Overlapping Subjectivities -- 4 Johnston's Social Critique -- 5 Johnston's Sexual Subjectivization -- References -- Part 3 Intersectional Investigations -- Chapter 9 Historical Traumas in the Critiques of Theodor Adorno and Joy James -- 1 Captive Maternals -- 2 Auschwitz -- 3 Conclusion: Power Dynamics -- References -- Chapter 10 Beyond One-Dimensional Theory and Praxis: A Marcusean Alliance with Black Feminism -- 1 Theory and Liberatory Praxis -- 2 A Standpoint from Which to Revolt: The Uses of Black Women's Distinctive Anger -- 3 Conclusion: Taking Marcuse and Feminism beyond One-Dimensionality -- References -- Chapter 11 Herbert Marcuse and Intersectional (Marxist) Feminism -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Intersectionality and Marxism or Intersectional Marxism.

3 Marcuse and the Women's Liberation Movement -- 4 A Broader and More Comprehensive Notion of Socialism -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 12 Rethinking Astrology as Feminist Re-enchantment: A Reading of Adorno's "The Stars Down to Earth" -- 1 Adorno and Astrology -- 2 Curiosities: Women, Jazz, and Psychoanalysis -- 3 Disenchantment and Dissociation -- 4 Feminist/bipoc/Queer Astrology -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Part 4 Socialized Nature: Essential Categorical Questions in Science -- Chapter 13 Negative Dialectics and the Force of Matter: Theodor W. Adorno and Karen Barad: towards a New-Material Feminism for Thinking Contemporary Crises -- 1 Materiality, Subject and Praxis -- 1.1 Adorno - the Negativity of Materiality -- 1.2 Barad - Materiality as Becoming -- 2 Provisional Evaluation -- 3 Considerations -- 3.1 Barad's Apparatus -- 3.2 Potence of the Subject -- 3.3 Contingency and Critique -- 3.3.1 Two Worlds: Subject -- 3.3.2 Two Worlds: Object -- 3.3.3 Motion Rather than Hope -- 4 Possibilities -- 4.1 Immanence as Position -- 4.2 Bodies and Language -- 4.3 Negation and Resignification -- 4.4 Normativity and Transformation -- 5 Closure - Materialism Infinite -- References -- Chapter 14 Theorizing beyond the Man: The Frankfurt School and Post-humanist Feminism -- 1 Introduction -- 2 With Women contra Femininity -- 3 Nature, Gender, and Post-humanism -- 4 Forging the Post-humanist Link -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 15 The New Man Is a Woman: Marcuse and the Question of the New Anthropology -- 1 Performance Principle -- 2 "New Anthropology" and Theory of Instincts -- 3 Femininity as Antithesis of the Performance Principle -- 4 Feminist Socialism -- 5 Androgynia -- 6 Marcuse and Feminism -- 7 Final Considerations -- References.

Chapter 16 Reification and Forgetting: Thinking the Domination of Nature and of Women with and against Adorno -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Women, Nature, and the De-historization of Domination -- 2.1 The Dualism between Nature and Society -- 2.2 The Recovery of First Nature and the Loss of Historicity -- 3 Domination of Nature and Women in Adorno and Horkheimer -- 3.1 Domination of Nature and Progress -- 3.2 Forgetting, Reification and Stigma -- 4 Reification and Social Role -- 4.1 Considering Female Reification as a Difficulty for Critical Theory -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 17 About Mules, Divas, and Other Specifically Feminine Characteristics -- 1 Specifically Feminine -- 2 Unequal Equality of Exploitation -- 3 Mules Carry the Weight -- 4 Blues Divas -- 5 Musical Interlude -- 6 Critical Feminist Theory -- References -- Index.