14 Jun EXPLAIN WHAT HORKHEIMER AND ADORNO MEAN BY DIALECTIC OF ENLIGHTENMENT?
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Evidence of primary reading is essential. A good answer also presupposes an attempt at critical engagement either with the author or his interpreters or both.
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1. Weber speaks of modernity as a new polytheistic age of warring gods. What does he mean and what is his attitude to this predicament? How does this new polytheism differ from that of the past? Does he offer us a solution and is it viable?
Readings
Weber, M. ’Politics as a Vocation’ and ’Science as a Vocation’ From Max Weber Routledge &Kegan Paul, London, 1948
Kalberg, S. Max Weber: Reading and Commentary on Modernity Blackwell, 2005
Scaff, L A. Fleeing The Iron Cage University of California Press, 1989, Ch 3Schecter, D. The Critique of Instrumental Reason Continuum, London, 2010, Ch 1
Habermas, J. Theory of Communicative Action Vol 1 Heinemann, London, 1984 Ch 2
Brubaker, R. The Limits of Rationality Allen & Unwin, London, Chapters1, 3, 4
Turner, C. Modernity and Politics in the Work of Max Weber Routledge, 1992
Bendix, R. & Roth, G. Scholarship and Partisanship University of California Press, Berkeley, 1971, Part A Ch 5
Schluchter, W. The Paradoxes of Modernity Stanford University Press, 1996 Section 1 Truth, Power and Ethics
Eden, R. Political Leadership and Nihilism University Press Florida, 1983 Ch 2, 5, 6
Goldmann, H. Max Weber and Thomas Mann University of California Press, 1988 part 2 Ch 4
Goldmann, H. Politics, Death and the Devil University of California Press, 1992, Ch 2, 3, 6
Kontos, A. The World Disenchanted, and the Return of Gods and Demons in The Barbarism of Reason: Max Weber and the Twilight of Enlightenment (Ed) Horowitz, A. & Maley, T, University of Toronto Press, 1994, pp 223/247
2. Explain what Horkheimer and Adorno mean by dialectic of enlightenment? What is the relationship between this idea and that of the totally administered society and what are the consequences for the idea of a critical theory of society today?
Reading
Adorno, T W. & Horkheimer, M. ’The Concept of Enlightenment’ and Excursus 1&11 from Dialectic of Enlightenment Stanford University Press, 2002
Jay, M. The Dialectical Imagination Heinemann, London, 1973, Ch 8
Held. D. Introduction to Critical Theory Hutchinson, London, 1980, Ch 5
Honneth, A, The Critique of Power M I T Press, 1991, Ch 2
Dubiel, H. Theory and Politics M I T Press, 1985, pp 69-113
Schecter, D. The Critique of Instrumental Reason Continuum, London, 2010, Ch 3
Wiggerhaus, R. The Frankfurt School M I T Press, 1994 pp 326-350
Rabinbach, A. In the Shadow of Catastrophe: German Intellectuals Between Apocalypse and Enlightenment University of California Press, Berkeley, 1997, Part 1, Ch 1, Part 2, Ch 5
Bronner, S E. Of Critical Theory and Its Theorists Blackwell, 1994, Ch 5, 9
Bronner, S.E. Reclaiming the Enlightenment Columbia University Press, 2004. Ch 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 9
Habermas, J. Theory of Communicative Action Vol 1 Heinemann, London, 1984, Ch 4 Part 2 pp 366-403
3. Elaborate Foucault’s image of the ”carceral society”? What is the critical burden of this image? Is his standpoint the same as Adorno and Horkheimers? Did Foucault intend this as a diagnosis of the present?
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