Modernism and the Frankfurt School

Tyrus Miller's book offers readers a focused introduction to the Frankfurt School's important attempts to relate the social, political, and philosophical conditions of modernity to innovations in twentieth-century art, literature, and culture.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Modernism, Modernity, and the Demand for Interdisciplinarity; 2. Walter Benjamin; 3. Theodor Adorno; 4. Herbert Marcuse; 5. The New Wave: Modernism and Modernity in the Later Frankfurt School.

About the author

Tyrus Miller is Professor, Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies in the Department of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Summary

Tyrus Miller's book offers readers a focused introduction to the Frankfurt School's important attempts to relate the social, political, and philosophical conditions of modernity to innovations in twentieth-century art, literature, and culture.

Product details

• Authors: Tyrus Miller
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9781474473217
• ISBN: 978-1-4744-7321-7
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture; Edinburgh Critical Studies in
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies