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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe variety of responses to Heidegger may be said to be the theme of a new history of the Frankfurt school of critical theory, Toward a Concrete Philosophy: Heidegger and the Emergence of the Frankfurt School This impressive account by Mikko Immanen leads us into a vanished world of high culture, learning, and urbane civility—and its ruins, as these great European minds fled to the New World when the Nazis seized power in Germany.
* The Review of Politics *
There are many more biographical, culture-historical, and thematic connections between Heidegger and the Frankfurt School than the quasi-official story of mutual hostility recognizes. In Toward a Concrete Philosophy, Mikko Immanen takes significant steps to set the record straight.
* Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Making Good on Heidegger's Promise
Part I: Who Owns the Copyright to the Problematic of "Being and Time"? Marcuse, Heidegger, and the Legacy of Hegel
1. The Un-Heideggerian Core of Marcuse's Most Heideggerian Text: The Lukács Question
2. The Hegel Debate: The Pinnacle of Marcuse's Freiburg Years
3. Stakes of the Hegel Debate: Davos, Marxism, and the Black Notebooks
Part II: The Frankfurt Discussion: Adorno, Heidegger, and the Frankfurt Heideggerians
4. The Frankfurt Discussion: A Sequel to the Epochal Davos Disputation
5. "What Is the Human Being?" Thrown Dasein or Cura Posterior?
6. Demythologizing Heidegger's Thrownness: Toward Dialectic of Enlightenment
Part III: The Young Horkheimer on Heidegger: From Guarded Enthusiasm to Determined Opposition
7. Being and Time: The Primacy of Practical Reason Misunderstood
8. Critical Theory as a Reply to Heidegger, Scheler, and the Frankfurt Heideggerians
Conclusion
