Modernism and the Frankfurt School (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture) - Hardcover

Tyrus Miller

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0748640185 ISBN 13: 9780748640188

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2014

Synopsis

This is a single-volume introduction to the important connection of Frankfurt School thought and modernist culture. This book provides a focused introduction to the Frankfurt School's important attempts to relate the social, political, and philosophical conditions of modernity to innovations in 20th-century art, literature, and culture. Individual chapters include detailed discussions of Benjamin, Adorno, Marcuse, and a survey of later Frankfurt School influenced thinkers, and discuss the ideas of each figure with an emphasis on specific artistic media or contexts. This study provides a revisionary view of Frankfurt School theory and modernist culture, as well as a clear, thorough, and relevant survey of major ideas and figures. It introduces well-studied major figures such as Benjamin and Adorno in a new light, while connecting their ideas with problems in modernist art and culture.

About this title

About the Author:

Tyrus Miller is Professor of Comparative Literature & Associate Dean of Graduate Studies in the Department of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

About this edition

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0748640185
• ISBN 13: 9780748640188
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192