new formations no 38
HATING TRADITION PROPERLY
Editors: Scott McCracken and Antony Rowland
'One must have tradition in oneself to hate it properly' Theodor Adorno The work of the Frankfurt School has returned to centre-stage in debates in cultural studies. Hating Tradition Properly reflects the arguments and discussions that currently surround the influence of the School in postcolonial theory, the study of music, urban culture and consumerism, psychoanalysis, and gender studies. The moment of critical theory is assessed in relation to the different political conditions of Germany, Britain and South Africa. The essays show the legacy of Adorno, Horkheimer, Benjamin and their associates to be a controversial one; but the issues raised by their work go to the heart of contemporary debates in cultural studies. Tackling some of the newest and most dynamic developments in the field, this edition of new formations argues for an engaged criticism that is against entrenched orthodoxes: for hating traditions, old and new, properly.
Contents and Contributors:
Scott McCracken and Antony Roland Editorial
Neil Lazarus 'Hating Tradition Properly'
Graham Pechey Post-Apartheid Reason: Critical Theory in South Africa
Andrew Edgar Adorno and the Question of Schubert's Sexuality
Barbara Engh After 'His Master's Voice'
Herbert Schnädelbach The Cultural Legacy of Critical Theory
Sean Homer The Frankfurt School, the Father and the Social Fantasy
Deborah Parsons Flaneur or Flaneuse?: Mythologies of Modernity
Graeme Gilloch The Return of the Flaneur: The Afterlife of an Allegory
Esther Leslie Space and West End Girls: Walter Benjamin Versus Cultural
Studies
Eamonn Carrabine and Brian Longhurst Mosaics of Omnivorousness: Middle-Class
Youth and Popular Culture
Kate Soper Despairing of Happiness: The Redeeming Dialectic of Critical
Theory
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