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Record Nr.

UNINA9910746957103321

Titolo

The Archives of Critical Theory / / edited by Isabelle Aubert and Marcos Nobre

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2023]

©2023

ISBN

3-031-36585-2

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (278 pages)

Disciplina

405

Soggetti

Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Part I: Introduction -- Researching the Archives of Critical Theory -- References -- Part II: Marx and Engels Archive -- Publishing Marx-Engels-Nachlass: Archive, Editions, and Theoretical Implications -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Marx-Engels-Nachlass -- 2.1 "The German Ideology" and Researching the Nachlass: A Brief Account -- 2.2 Reading Marx Today: The Nachlass and a Scientific Revolution -- 2.3 Conclusion -- References -- Part III: Walter Benjamin Archive -- Into the Walter Benjamin Archive: An Interview with Ursula Marx -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Interview with Ursula Marx -- References -- Benjamin Anarchivist -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- References -- Part IV: The Institute for Social Research Archive -- The Attitude of the German People: The Institute of Social Research Archive as Contemporary History -- 1 History of the Archive -- 2 Tasks of the Archive -- 2.1 Collection -- 2.2 Preservation -- 2.3 Usability -- 2.4 Research out of the Archive -- 3 Examples of the Archive Material -- 3.1 Group Experiment -- 3.2 The Contest on the German People and Antisemitism -- 4 What of It? -- References -- The Role of Empirical Research in Theodor W. Adorno's Thought: A Personal Experience at the Archive of the Institute for Social Research -- 1 The Research on Democracy and Education at the Institute for Social Research -- 1.1 Research on Democracy in West Germany -- 1.2 Education and Democracy Among the Students -- 2 Education, Democracy, and Resistance in Theodor Adorno's



Thought -- References -- Part V: Max Horkheimer Archive -- Working on Cultural Memory: The Literary Estate of Max Horkheimer in the Frankfurt University Library -- References -- The Material Part of Theory: The IfS Exile in Geneva and the Correspondence between Max Horkheimer and Juliette Favez.

1 The First Exile of the IfS -- 1.1 The Political Context of an Exile -- 1.2 Social Research and Social Philosophy -- 2 The Correspondence Between Max Horkheimer and Juliette Favez -- 2.1 The Content of the Exchanges -- 2.2 The Juliette Favez Enigma -- 2.3 Elements of a Correspondence -- 2.4 Mail Management -- 2.5 The Materiality of Thinking -- 3 The Archive of Reconstruction -- References -- Not Just Director, Methodologist, or Partner: A Brief History of the Reception of Horkheimer's Work -- 1 The Director, the Methodologist, the Partner: The Reception of Horkheimer's Work During the 1970s and the 1980s -- 2 After the Collected Writings and the Max Horkheimer Archive Research: Horkheimer as the Philosopher -- References -- Part VI: Theodor W. Adorno Archive -- Adorno and the Archiving of the Ephemeral: Remarks on His Literary Estate -- References -- Adorno and the Post-war Artistic Debates: A Perspective Through the Archives -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Darmstadt Music Debates and the Origins of Adorno's Conception of a Musique Informelle -- 3 Modern Art and Its Developments: The Verfransung of the Arts -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- T.W. Adorno, H. Becker, and the Challenges of Education in an "Administered World" (1955-1969): Unpublished Radio Conversations from the Theodor W. Adorno Archive -- 1 Introduction: Adorno's Writings on Pedagogy -- 1.1 Education as Social Critique in Adorno -- 2 How It All Started: Educating Adults - A Challenge in "Administered" Post-War Germany -- 3 1961: Halbbildung - What Is That Exactly? -- 4 1966 - "Ideologie der Unbildung": Adorno's Anti-conservative Theory of Bildung -- 5 1968 - Education and "Evaluation": A Missing Piece in Adorno's Theory of Bildung -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- Part VII: Friedrich Pollock Archive -- Symbiosis and Dispersion: The Friedrich Pollock Papers.

1 The Pollock Papers in Frankfurt -- 2 The Fondo Pollock in Florence -- 3 Other Archives -- 4 Material Conditions -- 5 Legal Issues of the Estate -- 6 Further Research -- 6.1 Transcription of the Postcard -- References -- Part VIII: Herbert Marcuse and Leo Löwenthal Archive -- Leo Löwenthal and Herbert Marcuse: Analysis of the Enemy and Volumes from the Marcuse Archive -- 1 Marcuse's Thematic Emphases in the Volumes of His Estate -- 2 You Must Know Your Enemy: Lying Prophets and Enemy Analysis -- 3 Die Lügenpropheten: Prophets of Deceit -- 4 Enemy Analysis -- 5 Individual and Terror -- References -- Archive Beyond Files: A Brief Note on a Personal Experience in the Marcuse Archive -- 1 Interview with Peter-Erwin Jansen -- References -- Part IX: Between Archives -- Critical Theory and Primary Source Research: Subjective Reflections on Working in the Herbert Marcuse and Max Horkheimer Archives -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Marcuse Archive -- 2.1 Searching for Traces of Marcuse's Early Encounter with Heidegger -- 2.2 Archival Discoveries from Marcuse's Later Life -- 3 The Horkheimer Archive -- 3.1 Back and Forth Between Frankfurt and Berkeley in the 1990s -- 4 Discoveries in the Horkheimer Archive -- 4.1 Horkheimer Before, During, and After World War I -- 4.2 Horkheimer's Studies in Frankfurt, 1919-1925 -- 4.3 Horkheimer as Lecturer in Frankfurt, 1925-1931 -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Part X: Jürgen Habermas Archive -- The Habermas Papers: An Interview with Roman Yos -- References -- Two Letters Between Jürgen Habermas and Karl-Otto Apel, Dated 1965: Comments on the Exchange -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Comment on the Letter



from Jürgen Habermas to Karl-Otto Apel (March 25, 1965) -- 3 Comment on Karl-Otto Apel's Response to Jürgen Habermas -- References -- Letter from Jürgen Habermas to Herbert Marcuse, July 10, 1978: Translation of the Letter and Comment.

1 Introduction -- 2 Translation of Jürgen Habermas's Letter to Herbert Marcuse -- 3 Comment on the Letter from Jürgen Habermas to Herbert Marcuse (July 10, 1978) -- References -- Appendix: Practical Information on the Archives -- Marx-Engels Archives -- Walter Benjamin Archiv (WBA) and Theodor W. Adorno Archiv (TWAA) -- Archiv des Instituts für Sozialforschung -- Max Horkheimer Archiv (MHA) -- Friedrich Pollock Papers -- Herbert Marcuse Archiv (HMA) / Leo Löwenthal Archiv (LLA) -- Habermas's Bequest (Na 60) -- Index.