As Jacoby demonstrates, iconoclastic utopianism, shaped by the works of Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Gustav Landauer, and other predominantly Jewish thinkers, revives society's dormant political imagination and suggests new ...
... 0231128940 ussell Jacoby is a UCLA - based Ruistorian with a strong interest historian with a strong interest in the Frankfurt School . He is erudite , and writes very well on a whole range of interesting themes . This small book is a ...
In this book, Jacoby excavates the critical and historical concepts that have fallen prey to the dynamic of a society that strips them both of their historical and critical content.
Observing that for both revolutionaries and capitalists, nothing succeeds like success, Russell Jacoby asks us to reexamine a loser of Marxism: the unorthodox Marxism of Western Europe.
... 0231128940 , $ 24.95 Jacoby ( history , UCLA ) offers a provocative , concise , and well - researched book - length essay about traditional utopian thinking , i.e. , blueprints or vi- sions of the good or ideal society . Instead of a ...