[lbo-talk] Frankfurt on the Hudson

[joel schalit]

The author of the review wrote a fairly harsh critique of Zizek last fall. I
am surprised he did not upbraid Adorno and Horkheimer in particular for
their lack of sympathy for Zionist efforts at the time. Horkheimer, and even
Marcuse, were particularly antipathetic.

Best, Joel

On Aug 19, 2009 12:53 PM, <dredmond at efn.org> wrote:

On Wed, August 19, 2009 10:35 am, Doug Henwood forwarded:


> [via Lou Proyect] > > Frankfurt on the Hudson > How the fathers of
Critical Theory found their wa...


> Reading Adorno on modern music, or Benjamin on literature, it is >
momentarily possible to believe...
[Extended cackle of post-Imperial glee]. Ah, Adorno is truly the ghost in
the neoliberal machine, isn't he? No bubble-speculation is safe from the
rapier of negative dialectics...

To paraphrase Adorno slightly, true criticism has been and will always be
nothing other than the thought-form of emancipation. And hermeticism is
functional in our ever more totalized, Googled and Terror-War-warped
system: it is the principled rejection of what is, in the name of what
could be.

-- DRR

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