Half a Heart and Double Zeal

Critical Theory's Afterlife in the United States

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4930690
AutoresRobert Zwarg (autor de correspondencia)
Año2017
Volumen44
Número3
Páginas225-240
Fecha de publicación2017-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaNew German Critique (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0094-033X • E-ISSN: 1558-1462
EditorialDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/0094033x-4162335
OpenAlexW2766605167
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas21

Critical theory has had an extraordinarily productive reception in the United States, most notably in journals like Telos and New German Critique. The article, based on a larger study, sketches the American reception of the Frankfurt School as (1) an attempt to come to grips with the political failure of the New Left and the student movement and (2) an unconscious encounter with the American particularity vis-à-vis Europe. As such, the article advances an understanding of what it means to speak of critical theory's "temporal core." The notion of "afterlife," the article argues, serves as a meaningful concept with which to study the historical transmission of the writings of first-generation critical theory

Afterlife · Critical theory · Epistemology · German · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Reception theory · Sociology · Telos · Unconscious mind · Cultural Studies and Interdisciplinary Research · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, History, and Historiography · Political Economy and Marxism