Otto Kirchheimer and the Frankfurt School
Failed Collaborations in the Search for a Critical Theory of Politics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4070577 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hubertus Buchstein (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 81-106 |
| Publication date | 2020-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New German Critique (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-033X • E-ISSN: 1558-1462 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/0094033x-8288139 |
| OpenAlex | W3048409298 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 22 |
This article describes debates among members of the Frankfurt School during their years in exile in the United States about the status of political institutions within their analytic frameworks. The cited unpublished material in this article sheds new light on the complicated relationship between Otto Kirchheimer and the core of the Frankfurt School group on this issue. Kirchheimer's biographical episode with the group exemplifies both the failure of interdisciplinary collaboration at the Institute of Social Research and the inability of its members to develop a joint theoretical perspective on political phenomena. In the context of the Frankfurt School, Kirchheimer's works present a countermodel to the interpretation of modern mass democracy as an integrative regime of instrumental reason. He refused to accept such a global interpretation. In his work at the Institute of Social Research he accentuated the unequal power recourses of conflicting social groups and different institutional mechanisms to deal with these conflicts politically. This approach made his work interesting for authors of a later generation of Critical Theory like Jürgen Habermas and Claus Offe
Context (archaeology) · Critical mass (sociodynamics) · Critical theory · Democracy · Epistemology · Interpretation (philosophy) · Perspective (graphical) · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Social science · Sociology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics
Behemoth
The Frankfurt School
Punishment and Social Structure
Buying Time
Otto Kirchheimer
Kritische Theorie und historische Politik
The End of Reason
The structural transformation of the public sphere
The Essential Frankfurt School Reader
Social Philosophy after Adorno
The Sage Handbook of Frankfurt School Critical Theory
Adorno and the Political
Elemente des Antisemitismus
From critical theory to political science
The controversy over Friedrich Pollock’s state capitalism
The Frankfurt School in Exile
Adorno’s politics
The structural transformation of the public sphere
Critical theory
Dialectic of Enlightenment
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,8 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2023 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |