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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Horkheimer"”.
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Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno, . . . and C. S. Lewis? Two Revolutionary Philosophical, Moral, and Cultural Critiques
… C. S. Lewis’ The Abolition of Man (1944) and Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno’s Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944). Written during, and greatly influenced by, the horrors of WWII, both works attempt a theoretically rigorous and substantive account of the seemingly precarious state of affairs …
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Die Zähmung der Zweckrationalität in der deutschen Soziologie des 20. Jahrhunderts : die Rationalisierungsproblematik bei Weber, Horkheimer/Adrono, Habermas und Beck
… der Aufklaerung <br>3.3 Normative Soziologie bei Horkheimer und Adorno <br>3.4 Kritik <br>3.5 Zusammenfassung <br> <br>Kapitel 4 Die diskursive Wende: Juergen Habermas und seine Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns <br>4.1 Habermas¡¦ Kritik der instrumentellen Vernunft <br>4.2 Habermas¡¦ …
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«Η ανθρώπινη αξία ανάμεσα στο Ιερό, την Ευπάθεια και τη Διαλεκτική του Διαφωτισμού: Μια σύγκριση της Σιμόν Βέιλ, της Τζούντιθ Butler και της κριτικής των Τέοντορ Αντόρνο και Μαξ Χορκχάιμερ»
… την κριτική ανάλυση των Theodor Adorno και Max Horkheimer. Κεντρικός άξονας της έρευνας είναι ο τρόπος με τον οποίο το υποκείμενο τοποθετείται ανάμεσα στην ιερότητα της ύπαρξης, τη θεμελιώδη ευπάθεια (vulnerability) και τις αλλοτριωτικές δυνάμεις που περιγράφονται στη «Διαλεκτική του …
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EFFECTIVE HISTORY: ON THE GENEALOGY OF MODERN RATIONALITY
… dialogue with the critical theory of Adorno and Horkheimer and the poststructuralist genealogy of Michel Foucault. For the Adomo and Horkheimer of the Dialectic of Enlightenment, the historicity of rationality manifests itself in the form of a development, the development of instrumental …
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Hacks/Müller: Zur Selbstbestimmung der DDR-Dramatik in Bezug auf die literarische Tradition und sozialistische Gegenwart
… his cultural materialism), as well as Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno (Critical Theory). Furthermore, the dissertation deals with the idea of metatheatre, and it discusses elements of metadrama (Karin Vieweg-Marks) in the selected plays. The symbolic boundaries of research are the Berlin …
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Auf der Suche nach dem verlorenen Subjekt : der Stellenwert des Ästhetischen im Kontext der Geschichtsphilosophie der kritischen Theorie
… representations taken, on the one hand, from M. Horkheimer and T. W. Adorno’s jointly composed essay “Dialectic of Enlightenment” and, on the other hand, from Adorno’s fragmentary essay “Aesthetic Theory”, which was published posthumously.In order to implement such a comparison, critical theory’s …
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The Frankfurt School : the crisis of subjectivity and the problem of social change
… to distinguish in the succession of events. For Horkheimer and Adorno this was the dialectic of Enlightenment, the apotheosis of Western rationality dominating and consuming its own progress in an orgy of regression leading to barbarism. Midnight in the twentieth century became, for Horkheimer …
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Electronic Dance Music: From Deviant Subculture to Culture Industry
… in the group being transformed into what Horkheimer and Adorno ([1944] 1972) called a culture industry. Electronic dance music is today dominated by large-scale entertainment corporations who employ a formulaic marketing strategy in the production of EDM events for a mass audience.</p>
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The Economic Theories of the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research, 1923-1945
… to step down and the social philosopher Max Horkheimer took over. Despite the Institute’s substantial contributions to economic theory during both directorships, the remarkable work of its economists has been overshadowed by the pronounced and widespread focus on its philosophers and cultural …
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Contemporary Kitsch: An examination through creative practice
… fakes and copies (Greenberg, 1961; Adorno & Horkheimer, 1991; Calinescu, 1987; Dorfles, 1969). I argue, however, that this is no longer the case. This research critically examines the way in which contemporary kitsch now plays a vital and positive role in social and individual aesthetic life. …
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Negotiating the hidden curriculum of otherness: Black ethnically minoritised young people’s educational experience in predominantly White areas.
… With its foundations in critical theory (Horkheimer 1972, Adorno 2005), utilising a bespoke critical bricolage (BCB) methodological approach as a tool to illuminate the endemic hierarchy of race and grounded in Critical Race Theory (CRT) as a lens (eg: Yasso 2005, Gillborn 2010, Delgado …
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How Hollywood Stole My Identity: African American Representation in the films Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner and Get Out
… works of James Baldwin, Theodor Adorno, and Max Horkheimer provide the theoretical background to this discussion of race as an element of identity, as well as within the framework of a culture industry. The second chapter explores the transition from Old Hollywood to New Hollywood, embodied in …
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Freedom, Music and the RIAA: How the Recording Industry Association of America Shapes Culture by De-politicizing Music
… consolidated among fewer companies. Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno described how the commodifying forces of the music industry lead to a predictable formulaic music that lacks any critical approach to society in their groundbreaking book, first published in 1944, Dialectic of …
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Juergen Habermas and Marx: Critique of an Incipient Public Sphere
… Frankfurt School Critical Theory (of Adorno, Horkheimer, Marcuse and others) tacitly retained a Marxist orthodoxy none the less; and, (c) Habermas's theory of communicative action and reason first faces up to and successfully overcomes the problems associated with (a) and (b).</p> <p>The …
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Stylizing, Commodifying, and Disciplining Real Bodies: An Examination of WWE Wrestling
… industry, developed by Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer, to understand WWE wrestling. I examine how the WWE thoroughly stylizes its products to attract fans and condition them to repeat the same calculable reactions. However, contemporary fans often refuse to react as the WWE wants them to. By …
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Tensions Of Violence, Social Harm, And Profit: An Examination Of The National Football League
… Wacquant, Norbert Elias, Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and Harry Braverman employed in order to explain the dynamic and tentative relationship between power, profit and culture within the socioeconomic and political climate of contemporary society. In addition, this thesis features an …
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The concept rationality in the work of Jurgen Habermas
… in the light of the works of Marx, Freud, Weber, Horkheimer, Adorno, and Lukacs. The concept of reflection is revised from the viewpoint of reflective, communicative judgement. The concept of rationality is distinguished from the attitudes which actors adopt in apprehending their world. Piaget's …
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Democracia Alimentar: um conceito em disputa
… como referenciais teóricos-metodológicos: Horkheimer (1983) e Becker (2014). As principais categorias de análise e seus respectivos autores serão: Democracia Alimentar (Tim Lang), Cidadania (Noam Chomsky); Participação e Teoria Democrática (Carole Pateman); Movimento democrático andino …
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