The Subject of Emancipation
Subtitle: Critique, Reason and Religion in the Thought of Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer and Paul Tillich
Contributors: Fiorenza, Francis S.; Gordon, Peter E.; Cox, Harvey G.
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Description: Through a focus on four rubrics: emancipatory rationality, anthropology, metaphysics and religion, the dissertation demonstrates clearly that with similar resources yet different emphases, Paul Tillich, Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno uniquely structure what are largely complementary critical interpretations of a modernity which they see to be diseased, and whose subjects are unable to realize the promises of enlightenment. They shine similar lights on the `steel-hard cage' of a modernity which they hope to overcome, and possibly to redeem, in largely compatible ways.
Notes: Keywords: Adorno, Theodor W., critical theory, Frankfurt School, Horkheimer, Max, philosophical anthropology, Tillich, Paul.

Thesis Ph.D. Harvard University 2012