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For Nonconformism: Max Horkheimer and Friedrich Pollock
The Other Frankfurt School
Series: - Historical Materialism Book Series, Volume: 264
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Subject of numerous interpretations and studies, the vicissitudes of the famous Frankfurt Institute for Social Research nevertheless still reserve some little-known pages, such as the human and scientific relationship that bound philosopher Max Horkheimer and economist Friedrich Pollock for over fifty years. Based on texts and letters translated here into English for the first time as well as some previously unpublished documents, the book reconstructs the crucial moments in the friendship between the two scholars with a narrative style and philological accuracy. Nicola Emery accompanies us through the two friends and intellectualsâ ânonconformismâ and search for an alternative life-form that led to the birth of the Frankfurt critical theory.
Nicola Emery, Ph.D. (1996), Università Cà Foscari Venezia, is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Svizzera italiana, and he leads the Max Horkheimer international Meetings. He has published monographs, many articles and also edited many books, the latest of which is Walter Benjamin Unfinished (Mimesis, 2022).
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Translatorâs Note
1 For Nonconformism
â1.1âTransgression, Autobiography, Philosophy
â1.2âForms of Life
â1.3âPsyche and History
â1.4âBiopower and the Hidden Faculties of Existence (Eroticism, Friendship, Art)
2 The Era of State Capitalism: Morphology and Genesis Starting from Friedrich Pollock
â2.1âFriedrich Pollockâs Ideal Type
â2.2âBetween Domination and Welfare
3 Expatriation, Disorientation, Islands
â3.1âLeaving Germany (Eichmann Trial, Israel and the Atlantic Pact)
â3.2âFree from the Coercion of the Reality Principle (Switzerland)
â3.3âBeyond Instrumental Architecture (the Houses in Montagnola)
4 Automation and the Eclipse of Democracy
â4.1âEra of Automation and Crisis: Pollockâs Prognosis
â4.2âIs Critical Theory Antiquated?
5 Critical Theory and Longing for the Other
â5.1âThe Absent Alterity
â5.2âCritique of Instrumental Reason and Religion
â5.3âCritical Judaism (beyond Identity, beyond Sovereignty, beyond Zionism)
Appendix: Figures
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Translatorâs Note
1 For Nonconformism
â1.1âTransgression, Autobiography, Philosophy
â1.2âForms of Life
â1.3âPsyche and History
â1.4âBiopower and the Hidden Faculties of Existence (Eroticism, Friendship, Art)
2 The Era of State Capitalism: Morphology and Genesis Starting from Friedrich Pollock
â2.1âFriedrich Pollockâs Ideal Type
â2.2âBetween Domination and Welfare
3 Expatriation, Disorientation, Islands
â3.1âLeaving Germany (Eichmann Trial, Israel and the Atlantic Pact)
â3.2âFree from the Coercion of the Reality Principle (Switzerland)
â3.3âBeyond Instrumental Architecture (the Houses in Montagnola)
4 Automation and the Eclipse of Democracy
â4.1âEra of Automation and Crisis: Pollockâs Prognosis
â4.2âIs Critical Theory Antiquated?
5 Critical Theory and Longing for the Other
â5.1âThe Absent Alterity
â5.2âCritique of Instrumental Reason and Religion
â5.3âCritical Judaism (beyond Identity, beyond Sovereignty, beyond Zionism)
Appendix: Figures
Bibliography
Index