{"title":"Martin Jay","description":"\u003cp\u003eMartin Jay's works delve into the intricate landscapes of \u003cem\u003ephilosophy and psychology\u003c\/em\u003e, exploring complex ideas with clarity and depth. His books challenge readers to reconsider established concepts, blending rigorous analysis with thought-provoking insights.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the nuances of perception in \u003cstrong\u003eMagical Nominalism\u003c\/strong\u003e to the keen observations found in \u003cstrong\u003eSplinters in Your Eye\u003c\/strong\u003e, Jay invites a reflective engagement with the world that is both intellectually stimulating and richly rewarding.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"splinters-in-your-eye-by-martin-jay-9781788736015","title":"Splinters in Your Eye","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough 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 twenty-first century to unsettle conventional wisdom about culture, society and politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eExploring unexamined episodes in the school’s history and reading its work in unexpected ways, these essays provide ample evidence of the abiding relevance of Horkheimer, Adorno, Benjamin, Marcuse, Löwenthal, and Kracauer in our troubled times.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWithout forcing a unified argument, they range over a wide variety of topics, from the uncertain founding of the School to its mixed reception of psychoanalysis, from Benjamin’s ruminations on stamp collecting to the ironies in the reception of Marcuse’s \u003cem\u003eOne-Dimensional Man\u003c\/em\u003e, from Löwenthal’s role in Weimar’s Jewish Renaissance to Horkheimer’s involvement in the writing of the first history of the Frankfurt School.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOf special note are their responses to visual issues such as the emancipation of colour in modern art, the Jewish prohibition on images, the relationship between cinema and the public sphere, and the implications of a celebrated \u003cem\u003eFamily of Man\u003c\/em\u003e photographic exhibition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection ends with an essay tracing the still metastasising demonisation of the Frankfurt School by the so-called Alt Right as the source of “cultural Marxism” and “political correctness,” which has gained alarming international resonance and led to violence by radical right-wing fanatics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000751866092,"sku":"9781788736015","price":42.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/23889193482824.jpg?v=1763302022"},{"product_id":"magical-nominalism-by-martin-jay-9780226837215","title":"Magical Nominalism","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA bold and wide-ranging study across centuries, examining the conflict between \"conventional\" and \"magical\" nominalism in philosophy, history, aesthetics, political theory, and photography.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this magisterial new book, intellectual historian Martin Jay traces the long-standing competition between two versions of nominalism—the \"conventional\" and the \"magical.\" Since at least William of Ockham, according to Jay, the conventional form of nominalism has contributed to the disenchantment of the world, by viewing general terms as nothing more than mere names we use to group particular objects together, rejecting the idea that they refer to a further, \"higher\" reality. Magical nominalism, instead, performs a reenchanting function, by investing proper names, disruptive events, and singular objects with an auratic power of their own. Drawing in part on Jewish theology, it challenges the elevation of the constitutive subject resulting from Ockham's reliance on divine will in his critique of real universals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eStarting with the fourteenth-century revolution of nominalism against Scholastic realism, Jay unpacks various \"counterrevolutions\" against nominalism itself, including a magical alternative to its conventional form. Focusing on fundamental debates over the relationship between language, thought, and reality, Jay illuminates connections across thinkers, disciplines, and vast realms of human experience. Ranging from theology and philosophy of history to aesthetics and political theory, this book engages with a range of artists and thinkers, including Adorno, Ankersmit, Badiou, Barthes, Bataille, Benjamin, Blumenberg, Derrida, Duchamp, Foucault, Kracauer, Kripke, and Lyotard.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUltimately, \u003cem\u003eMagical Nominalism\u003c\/em\u003e offers a strikingly original way to understand humanity's intellectual path to modernity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47647701729516,"sku":"9780226837215","price":75.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/a1b470077750a00a0ed72f91998a9b05.jpg?v=1779235108"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/martin-jay.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}