The Discourse of Domination: From the Frankfurt School to Postmodernism

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Index Absolute Refusal. See Great Refusal Absolutism, 291, 294-95 Academia, 268, 301-3 Academic McCarthyism, 64-65 Academic (University) Marxism, 44, 46-47,51,53-55,65,72,272-73. See also Intellectuality: radical Action: instrumental, 64 Adorno, Theodor W., 6, 9-10, 29, 71, 151, 166, 270; aesthetic theory, 228-30, 233; cerebral radicalism 258-60; critical theory, 12,20-2'1, 157,219; culture industry theory, 80, 91; on "damaged life," 195, 249-50, 275; on decline of the individual, 12, 110; interpretation of Freud, 25, 102; on Marcuse's Hegelianism, 197; Marxism, 5, 37, 194,239; on music, 24, 221-25, 227-30, 233-34; negative dialectics, 219-22, 225, 252, 271, 300; Nietzsche's influence, 285, 290; on reification, 251-52; response to absence of answers, 50-51; Slater on, 24-25, 27; theories compared with Marcuse's and O'Neill's, 220-28, 232-38; theory for, 195-96, 228-31, 236. See also works by name Adulthood, mature, Ill, 114-16 Advanced (Late; Monopoly) capitalism, 99, 135, 146-47,219,250, 260, 283, 290 -celebration of enlightenment, 138 -collapse of not inevitable, 268-69 -counterhegemony in terms of, 100 -culture and political economy in, 132-34 -displacement of opposition to militant minorities, 236 -domination based on profit imperatives in, 203 -early (1930s to early 1960s), 135, 145,147,242 -for Establishment postmodernism, 291 -fast capitalism as stage, 8-9, 73, 80, 269,299 -Frankfurt school's response to, 16-17, 29,37,131,184,244-45,247 -instrumental rationality in, 247-49 -legitimation crisis, 264 -for Marcuse, 98, 112-13, 121, 136-37, 154; alienation of the individual in, 95-96; false needs in 134, 144-45 ' -negative totality of, 224 -New Individualism in, 283 -phenomenology of, 230 -postmodernity theory on, 283 -revolutionary struggle as nonexistent, 46 -Weber as prophet of, 205 -See also Capitalism; Mobilization, total Advertising, 284, 286, 302-3 Aesthetic Dimension, The (Marcuse), 13, 25, 150-51, 153-58, 163-70 Aesthetics, 227-28, 233; of Adorno, 228-30,233; of the Frankfurt school 6, 22, 37; of Marcuse, 88, 108-9, ' 118,141,150-51,153-71,201-2, 204,253. See also Art Aesthetic Theory (Adorno), 24, 166 Affirmative postmodernism. See Establishment postmodernism 325 326 INDEX Agency, 60, 63,65, 71, 297 Agitational theory, 24-25, 27-28, 37 Alexander, Jeffrey C., 14,56-57, 60-67,69-71 Alienation, 25-26, 32, 36, 38, 178, 196-97,270 -existence in workers' control system, 189 -for the Frankfurt school, 29, 38, 105, 249 -internalization of, 103, 113, 131-32, 247 -of labor, 8-9,17,19,91, 176; for Marcuse, 89-91, 94-96, 99, 268 -for Lukacs, 241-43 -for Marcuse, 25-26, 94, 119, 134, 173-74, 176, 186; based on Freud's categories, 105; false solution to, 118-19; of the individual in late capitalism, 95-96; as less than total condition, 253; role of art in struggle to abolish, 108 -for Marx, 130, 243 -See also Reification Alternative institutions, 12, 52, 239-40, 254-55, 261 Althusser, Louis, 4, 46, 59, 168, 197 Althusserianism, 41, 51 American Journal of Sociology, 50 American Sociological Review, 49-50, 53 Amnesia, social, 137-38, 168 Analytical Marxism, 42-49 Analytic (Transcendental) individual, 60, 63,69 Analytic philosophy, 15, 281 Anti-Marxism, 14-15, 63, 80 Apollonian intellection, 301 Aronowitz, Stanley, 299 Art, 24-25, 75-76, 154-58, 201, 228 -for Adorno, 24, 228-30 -for Marcuse, 150, 153-54, 159-63, 186,201-2,226, 233; liberating function, 108-9, 154-58; of nonidentity, 163-71 -social realism's requirements for, 155-58 -See also Aesthetics Atonal music, 224, 228, 234, 237-38 Authenticity, 160-61, 226, 230 Authoritarianism, 25, 120, 122, 298. See also Fascism Authority, 173, 221, 249, 273, 290; father as figure of, 251; for Habermas, 172, 179-84,211-12; imposition of, 264-65, 268, 274; for Marcuse, 121-23, 172, 175-78, 187-90, 211; non-authoritarian, 183-84, 187-88; in self-management situation, 187-88 Autonomy, 17, 32-34, 249, 258; of art for Marcuse, 154-58, 162; of subjectivity, 35, 110-11, 156-57, 195,250 Avant-gardism, 293 Baby boom generation, 77-78, 286-87 Balibar, Etienne, 4, 197 Barthes, Roland, 284, 296 Base, 29, 204, 230 -relationship to superstructure, 30, 194, 209; for the Frankfurt school, 17, 132, 194; for orthodox Marxists, 132, 156 -See also Economics Basic repression. See Repression Baudrillard, Jean, 74, 80, 280...