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<div class="edition-single--book-title">Splinters in Your Eye</div>
<div class="edition-single--book-subtitle">Frankfurt School
Provocations</div>
<div class="edition-single--book-contributors"><span>by <a
href="https://www.versobooks.com/authors/2450-martin-jay">Martin
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<p>Assessing the legacy of the Frankfurt School in the
twenty-first century</p>
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<p>Although successive generations of the Frankfurt School have
attempted to adapt Critical Theory to new circumstances, the
work done by its founding members continues in the twenty-first
century to unsettle conventional wisdom about culture, society
and politics. Exploring unexamined episodes in the school’s
history and reading its work in unexpected ways, these essays
provide ample evidence of the abiding relevance of Horkheimer,
Adorno, Benjamin, Marcuse, Löwenthal, and Kracauer in our
troubled times. Without forcing a unified argument, they range
over a wide variety of topics, from the uncertain founding of
the School to its mixed reception of psychoanalysis, from
Benjamin’s ruminations on stamp collecting to the ironies in the
reception of Marcuse’s <i>One-Dimensional Man</i>, from
Löwenthal’s role in Weimar’s Jewish Renaissance to Horkheimer’s
involvement in the writing of the first history of the Frankfurt
School. Of special note are their responses to visual issues
such as the emancipation of colour in modern art, the Jewish
prohibition on images, the relationship between cinema and the
public sphere, and the implications of a celebrated Family of
Man photographic exhibition. The collection ends with an essay
tracing the still metastasising demonisation of the Frankfurt
School by the so-called Alt Right as the source of “cultural
Marxism” and “political correctness,” which has gained alarming
international resonance and led to violence by radical
right-wing fanatics.</p>
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<p>“In this sizzling collection of essays, Martin Jay
demonstrates again that he is the unsurpassed reader of the
group of thinkers known as the “Frankfurt School.” In fact, he
challenges the false unity and coherence of ideas and views
often imposed upon them, including his own earlier writings on
the subject. Practicing episodic and fragmentary
historiography, he uncovers astonishingly novel angles of
interpretation as well as demonstrating brilliant re-readings
of known texts. An absolute pleasure to read”</p>
<p class="byline">– Professor Seyla Benhabib</p>
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<p>“With this collection of brilliant and insightful essays
Martin Jay has returned to the topic that defined his early
career: Critical Theory, i.e. the lives and works of
theorists such as Adorno, Horkheimer, Benjamin, Kracauer,
and Marcuse. Based on deep historical knowledge and endowed
with great sensitivity for theoretical nuances, Jay traces
the unfolding of what is commonly called the Frankfurt
School. He succeeds in this endeavor by his refusal to treat
their thought as the expression of a unified school. For
this difficult task one could not have found a more suitable
critic than Martin Jay. This book is a precious gift to
America in these troubled times.”</p>
<p class="byline">– Peter Uwe Hohendahl</p>
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