Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 15:03:53 -0400
Subject: Re: M-TH: Considerations on the Frankfurt School
From: farmelantj-AT-juno.com (James Farmelant)



On Tue, 16 Sep 1997 11:57:42 -0400 (EDT) Louis N Proyect
<lnp3-AT-columbia.edu> writes concerning the Frankfurters hostility towards
the Enlightenment:
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>>to
>Hitler's victory*. What they are is nothing but warmed-over Nietzsche.
>This antipathy toward the Enlightenment was a central feature of 
>central
>European post-Hegelian philosophy and found its way into the
>existentialism of Heidegger. You could even argue that Horkheimer
>appropriated the trendy philosophy of his day to "improve" Marxism the 
>way
>that post-Marxists such as Laclau/Mouffe appropriated Lyotard the
>postmodernist in the 1980s.

Louis:

For some of the Frankfurters the influence of Heidegger was quite
direct.  Herbert Marcuse studied philosophy under Heidegger and was
even for a time a teaching assistant for him.  Another dissertation topic
might be to compare Marcuse's analysis of modernith with that of
the rightwing philosopher Leo Strauss (who was another former
student of Heidegger) and also like Marcuse was a Jewish refugee
from the Nazis.

			James F.
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