Index

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. List of Figures vii
4. Preface viii
5. Martin Jay and the Dialectics of Intellectual History xi
6. PART I: INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
7. “The Kiss of Lamourette”: “Possibilism” or “Christian Democracy”? 1
8. Selves without Qualities? Duchamp, Musil, and the History of Selfhood 24
9. Liberty and the “Coming-into-Being” of Natural Law: Hans Kelsen and Ernst Cassirer 55
10. The Artwork beyond Itself: Adorno, Beethoven, and Late Style 77
11. Marxism and Alterity: Claude Lefort and the Critique of Totality 99
12. The Return of the King: Hegelianism and Post-Marxism in Zizek and Nancy 117
13. Paradigm Shift: The Speculation of Downcast Eyes 137
14. PART II: VIOLENCE, MEMORY, IDENTITY
15. Memory Culture at an Impasse: Memorials in Berlin and New York 151
16. Against Grandiloquence: “Victim’s Culture” and Jewish Memory 162
17. Paris, Capital of Anti-Fascism 183
18. Toward a Critique of Violence 210
19. Democratization, Turks, and the Burden of German History 242
20. West German Generations and the Gewaltfrage: The Conflict of the Sixty-Eighters and the Forty-Fivers 268
21. PART III: CRITICAL THEORY AND GLOBAL POLITICS
22. From “the Dialectic of Enlightenment” to “the Origins of Totalitarianism” and the Genocide Convention: Adorno and Horkheimer in the Company of Arendt and Lemkin 299
23. The Anti-Totalitarian Left between Morality and Politics 331
24. Sovereign Equality vs. Imperial Right: The Battle over the “New World Order” 346
25. The Myths of Modern Identity as Ersatz Ideologies 368
26. PART IV: CODA
27. Ten Questions for Martin Jay 385
28. Publications of Martin Jay 393
29. Doctoral Students DIRECTED BY MARTIN JAY 404
30. Contributors 405
31. Index 410