Some of the most exciting and innovative work in the humanities currently takes place at the intersection of intellectual history and critical theory. Just as critical theorists are becoming more aware of the historicity of theory, contemporary practitioners of modern intellectual history are recognizing their potential contributions to theoretical discourse. No one has done more than Martin Jay to realize the possibilities for mutual enrichment between intellectual history and critical theory. This carefully selected collection of essays addresses central questions and current practices of intellectual history and asks how the legacy of critical theory has influenced scholarship across a wide range of scholarly disciplines. In honor of Martin Jay's unparalleled achievements, this volume includes work from some of the most prominent contemporary scholars in the humanities and social sciences.
Editors Preface
Chapter 1. Martin Jay and the Dialectics of Intellectual History
Lloyd Kramer
PART I: INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
Chapter 2. The Kiss of Lamourette: Possibilism or Christian Democracy?
David Sorkin
Chapter 3. Selves without Qualities: Duchamp, Musil, and the History of Selfhood
Jerrold Seigel
Chapter 4. Liberty and the Coming-into-Being of Natural Law: Hans Kelsen and Ernst Cassirer
Gregory B. Moynahan
Chapter 5. The Artwork Beyond Itself: Adorno, Beethoven, and Late Style
Peter E. Gordon
Chapter 6. Marxism and Alterity: Claude Lefort and the Critique of Totality
Samuel Moyn
Chapter 7. The Return of the King: Hegelianism and Post-Marxism in Zizek and Nancy
Warren Breckman
Chapter 8. Paradigm Shift: The Speculation of Downcast Eyes
Rosalind Krauss
PART II: VIOLENCE, MEMORY, IDENTITY
Chapter 9. Memory Culture at an Impasse: Memorials in Berlin and New York
Andreas Huyssen
Chapter 10. Against Grandiloquence: Victims Culture and Jewish Memory
Carolyn J. Dean
Chapter 11. Paris, Capital of Antifascism
Anson Rabinbach
Chapter 12. Toward a Critique of Violence
Dominick LaCapra
Chapter 13. Democratization, Turks, and the Burden of German History
Rita Chin
Chapter 14. The Gewaltfrage and Postwar West: German Generations in the 1960s
A. Dirk Moses andElliot Neaman
PART III: CRITICAL THEORY AND GLOBAL POLITICS
Chapter 15. From The Dialectic of Enlightenment to The Origins of Totalitarianism and the Genocide Convention: Adorno and Horkheimer in the Company of Arendt and Lemkin
Seyla Benhabib
Chapter 16. Western Marxism, Morality, and Politics
Dick Howard
Chapter 17. Sovereign Equality vs. Imperial Right: The Battle Over the New World Order
Jean Cohen
Chapter 18. The Myths of Modern Identity as Ersatz Ideologies
Detlef Claussen andMichael Werz
PART IV: CODA
Chapter 19. An Interview with Martin Jay
Bibliography of the Writings of Martin Jay
Contributors
Index
