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Zusatztext "Oberle's book is full of pathbreaking insights rendered in a dense, fast-paced but crystalline prose. Written for an audience of intellectual historians, it nevertheless speaks directly to all of us as we grapple with the contemporary 'interconnections among racism, anti-Semitism, and other forms of prejudice.'" Informationen zum Autor Eric Oberle is Associate Professor of History at Arizona State University. Klappentext Eric Oberle is Associate Professor of History at Arizona State University. Zusammenfassung Covering the period of the Frankfurt School's exile in the United States, this book examines how the critique of racism, authoritarianism, and hard-right agitation impacted the American and German individual's self-conception (identity), while examining how a new form of politics, based on defining an Other, has shaped our everyday language, institutions, and social world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. "Jazz , the Wound": Negative Identity, Culture, and the Shadow of Race 2. America; or, the Stranger 3. Negative Identities of the Subject in Wartime America 4. Critical Theory Goes to War: The Critique of Positive Identity and Positive Science 5. Negative Modeling: Objectivity, Normativity, and the Refusal of the Universal 6. Subject/Object and Disciplinarity 7. Conclusion
