scholarly journals Frankfurt School Critical Theory and the Persistence of Authoritarian Populism in the United States

2018 ◽  
pp. 3-27
Author(s):  
John Abromeit ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Frankfurt School ◽  
The United States ◽  
Authoritarian Populism

10. Unfinished tasks

2017 ◽  
pp. 116-124
Author(s):  
Stephen Eric Bronner
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Frankfurt School ◽  
The United States ◽  
Individual Autonomy ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Economic Class ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The World

The Frankfurt School never really thought about the world beyond Europe, the Soviet Union, and the United States. But there exists a global totality in which the most basic principles of solidarity are under attack. Resistance calls for linking liberal cosmopolitan principles with economic class interests. Reinvigorated regulative ideals are necessary. Linkages between liberalism and socialism still need to be drawn; class ideals still await realization; the emancipatory heritage of the past still requires reclaiming; and individual autonomy still remains threatened by religion and authoritarianism. New perspectives in critical theory are required to cultivate transformative prospects within an increasingly global society and, in turn, this calls for subjecting critical theory to ongoing critical interrogation.

Assessment and Critical Pedagogy

2019 ◽  
pp. 306-324
Author(s):  
Frank Abrahams
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Critical Pedagogy ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Teacher Performance ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
The United States ◽  
Summative Assessments ◽  
The World ◽  
Integrative Assessment

This chapter aligns the tenets of critical pedagogy with current practices of assessment in the United States. The author posits that critical pedagogy is an appropriate lens through which to view assessment, and argues against the hegemonic practices that support marginalization of students. Grounded in critical theory and based on Marxist ideals, the content supports the notion of teaching and learning as a partnership where the desire to empower and transform the learner, and open possibilities for the learner to view the world and themselves in that world, are primary goals. Political mandates to evaluate teacher performance and student learning are presented and discussed. In addition to the formative and summative assessments that teachers routinely do to students, the author suggests integrative assessment, where students with the teacher reflect together on the learning experience and its outcomes. The chapter includes specific examples from the author’s own teaching that operationalize the ideas presented.

scholarly journals The Frankfurt School and the authoritarian personality: Balance sheet of an insight

Thesis Eleven ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 072551362110059
Author(s):  
Geoff Boucher
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Balance Sheet ◽  
Research Programme ◽  
Frankfurt School ◽  
The Other ◽  
Authoritarian Personality ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Authoritarian Populism ◽  
Theodor Adorno ◽  
School Research

Frankfurt School critical theory is perhaps the most significant theory of society to have developed directly from a research programme focused on the critique of political authoritarianism, as it manifested during the interwar decades of the 20th century. The Frankfurt School’s analysis of the persistent roots – and therefore the perennial nature – of what it describes as the ‘authoritarian personality’ remains influential in the analysis of authoritarian populism in the contemporary world, as evidenced by several recent studies. Yet the tendency in these studies is to reference the final formulation of the category, as expressed in Theodor Adorno and co-thinkers’ The Authoritarian Personality (1950), as if this were a theoretical readymade that can be unproblematically inserted into a measured assessment of the threat to democracy posed by current authoritarian trends. It is high time that the theoretical commitments and political stakes in the category of the authoritarian personality are re-evaluated, in light of the evolution of the Frankfurt School. In this paper, I review the classical theories of the authoritarian personality, arguing that two quite different versions of the theory – one characterological, the other psychodynamic – can be extracted from Frankfurt School research.

Ilse Bing: A Frankfurt School Photographer in Paris and New York

October ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 173 ◽  
pp. 176-206
Author(s):  
Benjamin H. D. Buchloh
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Frankfurt School ◽  
The United States ◽  
New Objectivity ◽  
Political Analysis ◽  
New Vision

Ilse Bing was one of those Weimar photographers whose work was recognized or rediscovered later than that of many of her more famous female peers. Her photographic project sprang largely from her persistent subversion of the stylistic oppositions of New Vision photography and New Objectivity. Just as complex was the work she produced after moving to Paris, defined as it was by her cross-cutting of Weimar socialist and French Surrealist photographic mentalities. Comparable in her precise socio-political analysis to the Frankfurt School's critiques of emerging mass-cultural and political formations, Bing's work in the United States, where, barred from publishing in magazines, she was able to pay witness to photography's functioning as a new ideological- and cultural-industrial medium—acquired the melancholic features of a mordant critique of traditional photographic genres such as the portrait.

scholarly journals Kenneth Burke: Pioneer of Ecocriticism

2001 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 413-431 ◽  
Author(s):  
LAURENCE COUPE
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
North American ◽  
The United States ◽  
Kenneth Burke ◽  
Ecological Perspective ◽  
Know How ◽  
Anxiety Of Influence ◽  
De Man

Nearly every handbook of critical theory acknowledges Kenneth Burke (1897–1993) to be the twentieth-century North American critic who was most ahead of his time. Yet he seems to have been so ambitious that we still do not know how to place him. Indeed, it would require the space of a whole book to trace the extensive but scarcely documented impact which he has had. Concepts for which many other critics became famous may be traced back to him: ‘‘the order of words’’ (Frye); ‘‘the rhetoric of fiction’’ (Booth); ‘‘blindness and insight’’ (De Man); ‘‘narrative as a socially symbolic act’’ (Jameson); ‘‘the anxiety of influence’’ (Bloom). Indeed, it may well be that very anxiety which has led so many contemporary critics to repress his memory. But there is a change in the critical climate, corresponding to the global. This article is written in the hope that Burke will shortly be recognized as the first critic systematically to analyse culture and literature from an ecological perspective. As the dating of our epigraph indicates, he initiated this project over half a century before the rise of ecocriticism in the United States. Moreover, this was no passing phase for him; his whole career may be understood as a profound experiment in green thinking.

scholarly journals BEHEMOTH LEVANTA-SE NOVAMENTE: REFLEXÕES SOBRE O FASCISMO NO SÉCULO XXI / Behemoth rises again: reflections on 21st-Century Fascism

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (40) ◽  
pp. 319-331
Author(s):  
Andreas Huyssen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
21St Century ◽  
National Socialism ◽  
The United States ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
History Of

O presente texto é adaptado de Prophets of Deceit Redivivus – palestra proferida em 8 de junho de 2019 no Museu de História Alemã em Berlim, em conferência sobre Mosse’s Europe: New Perspectives in the History of German Judaism, Fascism, and Sexuality. A conferência discutiu proximidades e diferenças entre a atual situação política nos Estados Unidos e o fascismo entreguerras, nacional socialista. O texto foi originalmente publicado em julho de 2019, em n+1 Magazine, disponível em: https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/behemoth-rises-again/.Palavras-chave: Teoria Crítica; Marxismo cultural; Fascismo; Donald Trump.AbstractThe following is adapted from “Prophets of Deceit Redivivus,” a lecture delivered on June 8 at the German Historical Museum in Berlin at a conference on “Mosse’s Europe: New Perspectives in the History of German Judaism, Fascism, and Sexuality.” The lecture addressed the parallels and differences between the current political situation in the United States and interwar fascism and National Socialism. It was originally published in July, 2019, in n+1 Magazine, available at: https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/behemoth-rises-again/.Keywords: Critical Theory; Cultural Marxism; Fascism; Donald Trump.

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