Libros de Martin Jay

Ojos Abatidos

• 448 páginas
• Ojos abatidos constituye la indagación más rigurosa y completa del lugar ocupado por la visión en la tradición occidental. Podría decirse que con este trabajo el proyecto extendido de una cierta arqueología del...

Exilios Permanentes

Immanent Critiques: The Frankfurt School Under Pressure

• 240 páginas
• The Frankfurt School’s own legacy is best preserved by exercising an immanent critique of its premises and the conclusions to which they often led. By distinguishing between what is still and what is no longer alive in Critical Theory,...

Splinters In Your Eye: Essays On The Frankfurt School

• 256 páginas
• Although successive generations of the Frankfurt School have attempted to adapt Critical Theory to new circumstances, the work done by its founding members continues in the 21st century to unsettle conventional wisdom about culture, society and politics....

Magical Nominalism: The Historical Event, Aesthetic Reenchantment, And The Photograph

• 416 páginas
• A bold and wide-ranging study across centuries, examining the conflict between "conventional" and "magical" nominalism in philosophy, history, aesthetics, political theory, and photography.

Genesis And Validity: The Theory And Practice Of Intellectual History.

• 280 páginas
• There is no more contentious and perennial issue in the history of modern Western thought than the vexed relationship between the genesis of an idea and its claim to validity beyond it. Can ideas or values transcend their temporal origins and overcome...

Reason After Its Eclipse: On Late Critical Theory

• 265 páginas
• Martin Jay tackles a question as old as Plato and still pressing today: what is reason, and what roles does and should it have in human endeavor? Applying the tools of intellectual history, he examines the overlapping, but not fully compatible, meanings...

Empires Of Vision: A Reader

• 685 páginas
• Empires of Vision brings together pieces by some of the most influential scholars working at the intersection of visual culture studies and the history of European imperialism. The essays and excerpts focus on the paintings, maps, geographical surveys,...

Permanent Exiles: Essays On The Intellectual Migration From Germany To America

Live All You Can

• 176 páginas
• Laying waste to the notion that Abner Doubleday established the modern game of baseball, acclaimed biographer Jay Martin makes a bold case for A. J. Cartwright (1820-1892), an entrepreneur, philanthropist, and avid ballplayer whose keen perception and...

Modernist Imagination

• 432 páginas
• Some of the most exciting and innovative work in the humanities is occurring at the intersection of intellectual history and critical theory. This volume includes work from some of the most prominent contemporary scholars in the humanities.

Jay, M: Songs Of Experience

• 444 páginas
• Few words in both everyday parlance and theoretical discourse have been as rhapsodically defended or as fervently resisted as "experience." Yet, to date, there have been no comprehensive studies of how the concept of experience has evolved over...

Jay, M: Refractions Of Violence

• 240 páginas
• A new collection of essays by the internationally recognized cultural critic and intellectual historian Martin Jay that revolves around the themes of violence and visuality, with essays on the Holocaust and virtual reality, religious violence, the art...

Vision In Context

• 250 páginas
• Vision and the gaze are key issues in the analysis of racism, sexism and ethnocentrism. In recent radical theory, generally, and French theory in particular, vision has been seen as a means of control. But this view is often unnuanced. It bypasses questio...

The Dialectical Imagination

• 420 páginas
• Herbert Marcuse, Erich Fromm, Max Horkheimer, Franz Neumann, Theodor Adorno, Leo Lowenthal—the impact of the Frankfurt School on the sociological, political, and cultural thought of the twentieth century has been profound. The Dialectica...

Downcast Eyes

• 644 páginas
• Long considered "the noblest of the senses," vision has increasingly come under critical scrutiny by a wide range of thinkers who question its dominance in Western culture. These critics of vision, especially prominent in twentieth-century France,...

Force Fields

• 246 páginas
• First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Marxism And Totality

• 590 páginas
• Totality has been an abiding concern from the first generation of Western Marxists, most notably Lukács, Korsch, Gramsci, and Bloch, through the second, exemplified by the Frankfurt School, Lefebvre, Goldmann, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and Dell...