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PublisherDuke University Press

ISBN-100822327783

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Book TitleConfronting Mass Democracy and Industrial Technology : Political and Social Theory from Nietzsche to Habermas

Number of Pages384 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2002

TopicSocial, History & Theory, World / European, Political Ideologies / Democracy, Economics / Theory

GenrePolitical Science, Philosophy, Business & Economics

AuthorJohn P. Mccormick

FormatHardcover

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Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight33.7 Oz

Item Length9.8 in

Item Width5.9 in

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Reviewsâ€œThe contributors to Confronting Mass Democracy and Indusrial Technology 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.â€�-Stephen Holmes, New York University School of Law, "The contributors to Confronting Mass Democracy and Industrial Technology 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, Princeton University, "The contributors to Confronting Mass Democracy and Indusrial Technology 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, "The contributors to Confronting Mass Democracy and Indusrial Technology 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

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Table Of ContentAcknowledgments 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

SynopsisWith 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, Luk cs, 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 M ller, Gia Pascarelli, William E. Scheuerman, Steven B. Smith, Tracy B. Strong, Richard Wolin, 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., 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. 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

LC Classification NumberJA84.G3C66 2001