Reason and Horror: Critical Theory, Democracy, and Aesthetic Individuality

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Psychology Press, 2001 - 348 pages
Morton Schoolman develops a fascinating and entirely new interpretation of the work of Horkenheimer and Adorno.

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Contents

REASON AND HORROR
1
A Sensibility
16
America
23
TWO REASON AS A MURDEROUS PRINCIPLE
29
THREE DIALECTIC OF ENLIGHTENMENT AS
52
RECONCILIATION AND THE ALLIANCE BETWEEN KANT AND HEGEL OR HEGEL
106
AESTHETIC INDIVIDUALITY AND THE DESTRUCTION OF THE JEWS
114
THE AESTHETICS OF DARKNESS
120
SEVEN INDIVIDUALITY AS A POETIC FORM OF LIFE
185
EIGHT
230
NINE AESTHETIC INDIVIDUALITY AS
248
Democracys Mimetic DimensionSelfCreativity and Aesthetic Presentation
271
A Sensibility to Violence in the Aesthetics
282
Differences 286 Individualitys Receptivity to Small Differences
288
Attachment and Intimacy290 Individualitys Indifference to Difference in
296
NOTES
311

REASON AND DARKNESS
130
PART II
147
AN ETHIC OF APPEARANCES
173

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Morton Schoolman is Professor of Political Science at SUNY Albany, and the author of The Imaginary Witness: The Critical Theory of Herbert Marcuse.

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