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"The contributors to "Confronting Mass Democracy and Indusrial Technology" are a highly diverse yet uniformly first-rate lot. This rich volume is sure to attract scholarly attention in a variety of fields. There is nothing else like it in print."--Stephen Holmes, New York University School of Law
List of contents
Acknowledgments
I. Rationality and Politics at the Outset of the Century
Love, Passion, and Maturity: Nietzsche and Weber on Science, Morality, and Politics / Tracy B. Strong
II. Strategies of Progressive Political Action in an Age of Technological Transformation
Post-Utopian Marxism: Lukacs and the Dilemmas of Organization / Andrew Feenberg
Herbert Marcuse: A Critical Retrospective from Berlin to Berkeley / Richard Wolin
III. Socio-Literary Theory: Unlikely Sources for a Critique of Capitalism?
History Lesson on the S-Bahn: Brecht’s Cartography of Capital / Richard Dienst
The
Geist in the Machine: Freud, the Uncanny, and Technology / Gia Pascarelli
IV. Society and State as Machine in the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich
The Soul in the Age of Society and Technology: Helmuth Plessner’s Defensive Liberalism / Jan-Werner Muller
Leviathan in the 1930s: The Reception of Hobbes in the Third Reich / David Dyzenhaus
V. Theories of Technocracy in Two Postwar Germanies
Revisionism and Orthodoxy: Stalinism and Political Thought in the German Democratic Republic’s Founding Decade / Peter C. Caldwell
Unsolved Paradoxes: Conservative Political Thought in Adenauer’s Germany / William E. Scheuerman
VI. Throwing Off the Yoke of “the German Master”
Destruktion or Recovery?: Leo Strauss’s Critique of Heidegger
A Critical versus Genealogical “Questioning” of Technology: Notes on How
Not to Read Adorno and Horkheimer / John P. McCormick
Provocation and Appropriation: Hannah Arendt’s Response to Martin Heidegger
VII. Critical Democratic Theory at Century’s End: Language, Gender, Ethnicity
Disembodying Democracy: Gendered Discourse in Habermas’s Legalistic Turn / Nancy S. Love
Reversing the Dialectic of Enlightenment: The Reenchantment of the World / Seyla Benhabib
Contributors
Index
About the author
John McCormick is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University. He is the author of Carl Schmitt’s Critique of Liberalism: Against Politics as Technology.
