Confronting Mass Democracy and Industrial Technology

Acknowledgments

I. Rationality and Politics at the Outset of the Century
Love, Passion, and Maturity: Nietzsche and Weber on Science, Morality, and Politics / Tracy B. Strong

II. Strategies of Progressive Political Action in an Age of Technological Transformation
Post-Utopian Marxism: Lukacs and the Dilemmas of Organization / Andrew Feenberg
Herbert Marcuse: A Critical Retrospective from Berlin to Berkeley / Richard Wolin

III. Socio-Literary Theory: Unlikely Sources for a Critique of Capitalism?
History Lesson on the S-Bahn: Brecht’s Cartography of Capital / Richard Dienst
The Geist in the Machine: Freud, the Uncanny, and Technology / Gia Pascarelli

IV. Society and State as Machine in the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich
The Soul in the Age of Society and Technology: Helmuth Plessner’s Defensive Liberalism / Jan-Werner Muller
Leviathan in the 1930s: The Reception of Hobbes in the Third Reich / David Dyzenhaus

V. Theories of Technocracy in Two Postwar Germanies
Revisionism and Orthodoxy: Stalinism and Political Thought in the German Democratic Republic’s Founding Decade / Peter C. Caldwell
Unsolved Paradoxes: Conservative Political Thought in Adenauer’s Germany / William E. Scheuerman

VI. Throwing Off the Yoke of “the German Master”
Destruktion or Recovery?: Leo Strauss’s Critique of Heidegger
A Critical versus Genealogical “Questioning” of Technology: Notes on How Not to Read Adorno and Horkheimer / John P. McCormick
Provocation and Appropriation: Hannah Arendt’s Response to Martin Heidegger

VII. Critical Democratic Theory at Century’s End: Language, Gender, Ethnicity
Disembodying Democracy: Gendered Discourse in Habermas’s Legalistic Turn / Nancy S. Love
Reversing the Dialectic of Enlightenment: The Reenchantment of the World / Seyla Benhabib

Contributors