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Author Oberle, Eric, 1986- author.

Title Theodor Adorno and the century of negative identity / Eric Oberle.

Publication Info. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2018.

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Cultural memory in the present
Cultural memory in the present.
Contents "Jazz, the wound" : negative identity, culture, and the shadow of race -- America, or the stranger -- Negative identities of the subject in wartime America -- Critical theory goes to war : the critique of positive identity and positive science -- Negative modeling : objectivity, normativity, and the refusal of the universal -- Subject/object and disciplinarity.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary Covering the period of the Frankfurt School's exile in the United States, this book examines how the critique of racism, authoritarianism, and hard-right agitation impacted the American and German individual's self-conception (identity), while examining how a new form of politics, based on defining an Other, has shaped our everyday language, institutions, and social world.
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Subject Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969.
Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969.
Identity (Philosophical concept) -- History.
Identity (Philosophical concept)
History.
Critical theory -- United States -- History.
Critical theory.
United States.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Oberle, Eric, 1986- Theodor Adorno and the century of negative identity. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2018 9780804799249 (DLC) 2017052516 (OCoLC)999408086
ISBN 9781503606074 (electronic book)
1503606074 (electronic book)
9780804799249
0804799245
9781503606067
1503606066