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Jason Eubanks
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9/03/2002
03:35:13
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These are the same people who gave us the delightful book _The Totalitarian Personality_.
Anyone here know of rightist books dealing this subject? I know it's founded on psychoanalytic theory and has severe methodology problems. I'm more interested about it's enormous influence on leftist thinking toward the right.
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Jim Kalb
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9/03/2002
05:33:56
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The Frankfort School seems a mixed business and not always all bad. They take them seriously at Telos, which is at least originally a left-wing publication but now publishes paleocons like Paul Gottfried and occasionally Thomas Fleming and European New Right types like Alain de Benoist. (I've published a couple things there also.)
From their perspective the most important thing coming out of the Frankfort School is Adorno and Horkheimer's Dialectic of Enlightenment, which seems (I've only paged through it) a sort of jargony sociological Marxoid version of Guénon's Crisis of the Modern World. It's about how Enlightenment perfect reason turns to perfect irrationality, Enlightenment liberation to absolute social control and slavery, Enlightenment culture into the culture industry, etc. I've been told the book was an embarrassment to the official Frankfort School--to put it mildly it called their original project into question--and they suppressed it to some degree.
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Jason Eubanks
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9/05/2002
01:02:16
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I completely forgot about Telos! (and other aspects of Critical Theory) I was thinking about Adorno, Levinson and Honkheimer's social psychology theories (pathologization of the right) and the subsequent entrenchment of those theories in leftist academic circles.
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