{"product_id":"confronting-mass-democracy-and-industrial-technology-9780822327882","title":"Confronting Mass Democracy and Industrial","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is an analysis of how Heidegger, Brecht, Habermas, Adorno, and other German thinkers came to terms with the proliferation of technologies - technologies of bureaucratic democracy, of surveillance and military conquest, and those that affect the human psyche and soul.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The contributors to \u003ci\u003eConfronting Mass Democracy and Indusrial Technology\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e I. Rationality and Politics at the Outset of the Century \u003cbr\u003e Love, Passion, and Maturity: Nietzsche and Weber on Science, Morality, and Politics \/ Tracy B. Strong \u003cbr\u003e II. Strategies of Progressive Political Action in an Age of Technological Transformation \u003cbr\u003e Post-Utopian Marxism: Lukacs and the Dilemmas of Organization \/ Andrew Feenberg \u003cbr\u003e Herbert Marcuse: A Critical Retrospective from Berlin to Berkeley \/ Richard Wolin \u003cbr\u003e III. Socio-Literary Theory: Unlikely Sources for a Critique of Capitalism? \u003cbr\u003e History Lesson on the S-Bahn: Brecht’s Cartography of Capital \/ Richard Dienst \u003cbr\u003e The \u003ci\u003eGeist\u003c\/i\u003e in the Machine: Freud, the Uncanny, and Technology \/ Gia Pascarelli \u003cbr\u003e IV. Society and State as Machine in the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich \u003cbr\u003e The Soul in the Age of Society and Technology: Helmuth Plessner’s Defensive Liberalism \/ Jan-Werner Muller \u003cbr\u003e Leviathan in the 1930s: The Reception of Hobbes in the Third Reich \/ David Dyzenhaus \u003cbr\u003e V. Theories of Technocracy in Two Postwar Germanies \u003cbr\u003e Revisionism and Orthodoxy: Stalinism and Political Thought in the German Democratic Republic’s Founding Decade \/ Peter C. Caldwell \u003cbr\u003e Unsolved Paradoxes: Conservative Political Thought in Adenauer’s Germany \/ William E. Scheuerman \u003cbr\u003e VI. Throwing Off the Yoke of “the German Master” \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDestruktion\u003c\/i\u003e or Recovery?: Leo Strauss’s Critique of Heidegger \u003cbr\u003e A Critical versus Genealogical “Questioning” of Technology: Notes on How \u003ci\u003eNot \u003c\/i\u003e to Read Adorno and Horkheimer \/ John P. McCormick \u003cbr\u003e Provocation and Appropriation: Hannah Arendt’s Response to Martin Heidegger \u003cbr\u003e VII. Critical Democratic Theory at Century’s End: Language, Gender, Ethnicity \u003cbr\u003e Disembodying Democracy: Gendered Discourse in Habermas’s Legalistic Turn \/ Nancy S. Love \u003cbr\u003e Reversing the Dialectic of Enlightenment: The Reenchantment of the World \/ Seyla Benhabib \u003cbr\u003e Contributors \u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406028513623,"sku":"9780822327882","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/confronting-mass-democracy-and-industrial-technology-9780822327882","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}