Fall 2021
Crosslisted Courses from Affiliated Departments
The Frankfurt School(LIT 690/GERM 690 )
This course will center on the work of T.W. Adorno, also touching on Horkheimer, Sohn-Rethel, early Habermas, Marcuse, and Benjamin. It will examine the operation of dialectical thinking, necessarily returning briefly to Hegel, Marx and Lukacs. The main focus will be the different kinds of problems faced by negative and critical thought in the three historically different periods of Nazism, the U.S. exile, and the postwar Cold War. Instructor: Fredric Jameson - DUKE CAMPUS