Confronting Mass Democracy and Industrial Technology Political and Social Theory from Nietzsche to Habermas
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2002
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ISBN
9780822327882
Publisert
2002-06-12
Utgiver
Duke University Press
Vekt
590 gr
Aldersnivå
P, 06
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Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
384
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Biografisk notat
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.
“The contributors to <i>Confronting Mass Democracy and Indusrial Technology</i> 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, New York University School of Law
With a groundbreaking, interdisciplinary approach to German political and social theory, Confronting Mass Democracy and Industrial Technology provides fresh insight into the thought of many of the most influential intellectual figures of the twentieth century. Its essays detail the manner in which a wide range of German intellectuals grappled with the ramifications and implications of democracy, technology, knowledge, and control from the late Kaisserreich to the Weimar Republic, from the Third Reich and the Federal Republic through recently unified Germany.
Scholars representing the fields of political science, philosophy, history, law, literature, and cultural studies devote essays to the work of Nietzsche, Weber, Heidegger, LukÁcs, Schmitt, Marcuse, Adorno, and Habermas. They also discuss the writings of such figures as Brecht and Freud, who are not primarily thought of as political theorists, and explore the thought of Helmut Plessner and reformist theorists from East Germany who have been little studied in the English language. In the process of debating the nature and responsibilities of the modern state in an era of mass politics, unparalleled military technology, capacity for surveillance, and global media presence, the contributors question whether technology is best understood as an instrument of human design and collective control or as an autonomous entity that not only has a will and life of its own but one that forms the very fabric of modern humanity.
Scholars representing the fields of political science, philosophy, history, law, literature, and cultural studies devote essays to the work of Nietzsche, Weber, Heidegger, LukÁcs, Schmitt, Marcuse, Adorno, and Habermas. They also discuss the writings of such figures as Brecht and Freud, who are not primarily thought of as political theorists, and explore the thought of Helmut Plessner and reformist theorists from East Germany who have been little studied in the English language. In the process of debating the nature and responsibilities of the modern state in an era of mass politics, unparalleled military technology, capacity for surveillance, and global media presence, the contributors question whether technology is best understood as an instrument of human design and collective control or as an autonomous entity that not only has a will and life of its own but one that forms the very fabric of modern humanity.
Contributors. Seyla Benhabib, Richard J. Bernstein, Peter C. Caldwell, Richard Dienst, David Dyzenhaus, Andrew Feenberg, Nancy S. Love, John P. McCormick, Jan-Werner MÜller, Gia Pascarelli, William E. Scheuerman, Steven B. Smith, Tracy B. Strong, Richard Wolin
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This is an analysis of how Heidegger, Brecht, Habermas, Adorno, and other German thinkers came to terms with the proliferation of technologies - technologies of bureaucratic democracy, of surveillance and military conquest, and those that affect the human psyche and soul.
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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
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Index
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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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780822327882
Publisert
2002-06-12
Utgiver
Duke University Press
Vekt
590 gr
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
384
Redaktør
Biografisk notat
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.