Books by Marcel Stoetzler
This volume provides a systematic re-examination of the Frankfurt School's theory of antisemitism... more This volume provides a systematic re-examination of the Frankfurt School's theory of antisemitism and, employing this critical theory, investigates the presence of antisemitism in 20th- and 21st-century politics and society.
Critical Theory and the Critique of Antisemitism uncovers how critical theory differs from mainstream socialist or liberal critiques of antisemitism, as it frames its rejection of antisemitism in the critique of other aspects of modern capitalist society, which traditional theories leave unchallenged or critique only in passing. Amongst others, these include issues of identity, nation, race, and sexuality. In exploring the Frankfurt School's writings on antisemitism therefore, the chapters in this book reveal connections to other pressing societal issues, such as racism more broadly, patriarchy, statism, and the societal dynamics of the ever-evolving capitalist mode of production.
Putting the theory to practice, this volume brings together interdisciplinary scholars and activists who employ critical theory to scrutinise right- and left-wing manifestations of antisemitism. They develop, in their critique of antisemitism, a critique of capitalism, as the authors ask: why does modern capitalist society seem bound to produce antisemitism? And how do we challenge it?
At a time when the rise of populism internationally has brought with it new strains of antisemitism, this is an essential resource that demonstrates the continuing relevance of the critical theory of the Frankfurt School for the struggle against antisemitism today.
Beginning classical social theory introduces students and educated general readers to thirteen ke... more Beginning classical social theory introduces students and educated general readers to thirteen key social theorists by way of examining a single, exemplary text by each author, ranging from Comte to Adorno. It answers the need for a book that helps students develop the skill to critically read theory. Rather than learning how to admire the canonical theorists, readers are alerted to the flow of their arguments and the texts' contradictions and limitations. Having gotten 'under the skin' of one key text by each author will provide readers with a solid starting point for further study.
Contents:
1 Introduction: If it is not mysterious, it is not social theory
2 The well-planned reorganisation of society: Auguste Comte
3 If you can't beat democracy, join it: Alexis de Tocqueville
4 Pariahs of the world, unite!: Flora Tristan
5 Capitalist modernity is the real savagery: Karl Marx
6 The conflict of community and society: Ferdinand Tönnies
7 There is some Thing out there: Emile Durkheim
8 The double consciousness: W. E. B. Du Bois
9 From good to bad capitalism and back: Max Weber
10 Strangers who are from here: Georg Simmel
11 Love, marriage and patriarchy: Marianne Weber
12 Critical versus traditional theory: Max Horkheimer
13 What is a woman, and who is asking anyway: Simone de Beauvoir
14 Society as mediation: Theodor W. Adorno
Modern antisemitism and the modern discipline of sociology not only emerged in the same period, b... more Modern antisemitism and the modern discipline of sociology not only emerged in the same period, but—antagonism and hostility between the two discourses notwithstanding—also overlapped and complemented each other. Sociology emerged in a society where modernization was often perceived as destroying unity and “social cohesion.” Antisemitism was likewise a response to the modern age, offering in its vilifications of “the Jew” an explanation of society’s deficiencies and crises.
Antisemitism and the Constitution of Sociology is a collection of essays providing a comparative analysis of modern antisemitism and the rise of sociology. This volume addresses three key areas: the strong influence of writers of Jewish background and the rising tide of antisemitism on the formation of sociology; the role of antisemitism in the historical development of sociology through its treatment by leading figures in the field, such as Emile Durkheim, Talcott Parsons, and Theodor W. Adorno; and the discipline’s development in the aftermath of the Nazi Holocaust. Together the essays provide a fresh perspective on the history of sociology and the role that antisemitism, Jews, fascism, and the Holocaust played in shaping modern social theory.
Marcel Stoetzler is a lecturer in sociology at Bangor University. He is the author of The State, the Nation, and the Jews: Liberalism and the Antisemitism Dispute in Bismarck’s Germany (Nebraska, 2008).
Contributors: Y. Michal Bodemann, Werner Bonefeld, Detlev Claussen, Robert Fine, Chad Alan Goldberg, Irmela Gorges, Jonathan Judaken, Richard H. King, Daniel Lvovich, Amos Morris-Reich, Roland Robertson, Marcel Stoetzler, and Eva-Maria Ziege.
Praise:
“Anyone in the social sciences concerned with antisemitism, prejudice, racism, myth, ideology, and theory should be interested in this volume.”—Mark P. Worrell, associate professor at the State University of New York, Cortland, and author of Dialectic of Solidarity: Labor, Antisemitism, and the Frankfurt School
"This study is an important contribution to our understanding of liberal ideology, nationalism, a... more "This study is an important contribution to our understanding of liberal ideology, nationalism, and German antisemitism, particularly in the English language."—Michael B. Gross, Journal of Modern History
“This is a remarkable [book] of admirable substance and considerable originality, distinguished by the form and scale of its intellectual ambition and by a kind of stubborn independent-mindedness of approach. . . . Stoetzler succeeds impressively in his purposes, using the immediate subject matter as a lens through which to address a wide range of topics of palpably larger importance. His book is coherently focused, tightly organized, and clearly written at a very high level of intelligence. It makes a major contribution to a variety of important literatures.”—Geoff Eley, Karl Pohrt Distinguished University Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Papers by Marcel Stoetzler
Central European History, 2009
to colonialism in 1884. Fitzpatrick agrees with Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann that Germany's belat... more to colonialism in 1884. Fitzpatrick agrees with Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann that Germany's belated entry into the race for colonies was neither the result of crude "social imperialism" (the view of "Bielefelders" such as Wehler), nor a response to foreign policy developments in Europe (the "neo-Rankean" view espoused by Klaus Hildebrand), but rather of Bismarck's desire to resurrect the fortunes of the National Liberal Party after the debacle of the 1881 Reichstag elections. "By embarking on an imperialist foreign policy," Fitzpatrick suggests, "Bismarck implicitly conceded the political importance. .. of liberalism in Germany at the time" (p. 124). In so doing, he was also acknowledging the centrality of imperialism to German liberalism: it was, he concludes, "liberalism's longstanding answer to the social problems intrinsic to modernization" (p. 209). MATTHEW JEFFERIES UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER
Marx, Engels, and Marxisms, 2023
Hannah Arendt and the Uses of History
Journal of Social Justice, 2019
The essay is in three parts. The first part (which includes the first three sections) contains hi... more The essay is in three parts. The first part (which includes the first three sections) contains historical reflections on the meanings of the concepts ‘left-wing’ and ‘right-wing’, relating them to the ideas of the French Revolution, and on the distinction between the three principal types of modern antisemitism, left-wing, right-wing and ‘conservative- revolutionary’. The middle part contains the main argument, beginning with the fourth section, which argues that Marx and Engels’ Communist Manifesto contains a dialectical view of capitalism that is not straightforwardly anti-capitalist. This is extended in the fifth section that discusses, in the perspective of the dialectic of capitalism and emancipation, anti-imperialism, cultural nationalism and the ethnicised concept of ‘community’ inherent in state-centric, bureaucratic multiculturalism. The third part of the essay (sections six to nine) begins with a discussion of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and then moves to some recent debates on cases of ‘left-wing antisemitism’ that are used to illustrate the main argument. It is concluded that ‘left-wing antisemitism’, like the nationalist antiimperialism that nowadays often provides its context, follows from a failure of anti-capitalists to embrace the corrosive effects capitalism has on enduring oppressive and exploitative societal structures that predate capitalism, such as patriarchy. Antisemitic forms of anti-capitalism refer by ‘Jewish capitalism’ to corrosive and exploitative capitalism, silently presupposing the possible existence of other, ‘non-Jewish’ types of capitalism imagined as productive, harmonious and peaceful. Antisemitic forms of anti-Israelism use ‘Zionism’ as a name of the world’s imperialist domination by ‘Jewish capitalism’ in this particular sense. The confusions involved in these issues lead to a blurring of the meanings of the very concepts ‘right-wing’ and ‘left-wing’.
Beginning classical social theory, 2020
introduction to Capital volume 1, section 1, chapter 1.
• Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose... more • Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research. • You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain • You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal ? Take down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. 13. Dec. 2021 210 2019년 제16권 제2호 This article proposes a novel reading of Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno's emblematic book Dialectic of Enlightenment(1947). Horkheimer and Adorno took as their starting point the observation that modern liberal, human and social progress has tipped over into a new form of barbarism but explicitly refused to develop it into a rejection of the enlightenment and its values as such. Instead, the dialectical view seeks even in the darkest moment of the failure of civilization, which is here epitomized in the Holocaust, reasons to defend a self-reflective, more enlightened form of human civilization. The dialectical theory does not reject but rearticulates the idea of progress that remains central to most forms of liberal and socialist theory. One of the central questions is, under what conditions do the instruments of enlightenment and civilization, including scientific and technological rationality, social organisation and general productivity, serve either emancipation or barbarism. Warding off the positivistic attack on any form of metaphysics and utopian thinking, Horkheimer and Adorno emphasised the need for enlightenment to be based on non-empiricist, reality-transcending, critical thinking in order to be in the service of emancipation rather than domination. The human mind atrophies when deprived of its freedom of movement. The more abstract, philosophical argument of Dialectic of Enlightenment is developed through several more historically specific materials, one of which is the interpretation of modern antisemitism. Horkheimer and Adorno combine in this context a Marxist analysis of aspects of continuity between liberal and fascist governance, based on the concepts of the commodity-form and the wage-form of modern social relations, with an
The SAGE Handbook of Frankfurt School Critical Theory
Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments is translated from Volume 5 of Max Horkheimer... more Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments is translated from Volume 5 of Max Horkheimer, Gesammelte Schriften: Dialektik der Aufklarung und Schriften 1940—1950, edited by Gunzelin Schmid Noetr, ©1987 by S. Fishcher Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt am Main. ...
'Antisemitism and the British Labour Party' (Opinion article on History &... more 'Antisemitism and the British Labour Party' (Opinion article on History & Policy)
Patterns of Prejudice, 2021
Antisemitismus im 19. Jahrhundert aus internationaler Perspektive, May 19, 2019
If one ever asked oneself what sociologyi sall about, one could do worse than consulting Auguste ... more If one ever asked oneself what sociologyi sall about, one could do worse than consulting Auguste Comte's 1822 manifesto, Prospectus des travaux scientifiques nØcessaires pour rØorganiser la societØ,the Plan of the Scientific Works Necessary for the Reorganization of Society. 1 It sketches out the historical-structural task that the new discipline,whose name Comte later popularized, was supposed to fulfil, namely to end-but-preserve-as the Germans would say, aufzuheben-the Revolution: safeguard its achievements from reaction as well as from further revolutions. Sociologyw ould do so by separating the good bits of modernity from the bad bits. The former Comte sawa sg rounded in as ecular,m acrohistorical trend of European historya nd civilization, the latter in the undisciplined hubris of troublemakers led astraybymetaphysicalnonsense peddled by the Enlightenment, or more precisely,b yt he non-positivistic strand of the Enlightenment.Sociologywould study and understand the laws of historyand silence the metaphysical troublemakers. Sociology's commitmenttomaking thatm essy thing called societysafe for modernity(the industrial-capitalist world system of nation states constituted and populated by modernindividuals) remained tricky.Spanners were thrown into the machineryl eft, right, and centreb yp eople whow ere not so positive about the positivestate of society. Rather ironically,most of those whocontinued and developed the Comtean projectofsociologydid so by basing it on some of those ghastly metaphysical ideas from the Enlightenment, notably those of Immanuel Kant. Sociology, at least in France and Germany, emerged mostly as a set of differing blends of positivism and Kantian, or neo-Kantian, idealism. Even more ironic, though, is the factthatthere were some admirers and followersofat least some aspects of Comte's philosophyw ho were rather hostile to the progressivist, more liberal projectintowhich positivism as sociologyhad morphed 1A uguste Comte, Plan of the Scientific Wo rk Necessaryfor the Reorganization of Society,in: Idem, Early PoliticalW ritings (Cambridge Te xts in the HistoryofP olitical Thought), Cambridge 1998, p. 47-144. Open-Access-Publikation im Sinne der CC-Lizenz BY 4.0
Patterns of Prejudice, 2019
Class, Race, and Marxism is a collection of six articles, previously published between 2006 and 2... more Class, Race, and Marxism is a collection of six articles, previously published between 2006 and 2016, by the historian David Roediger, who is best known for his 1991 monograph, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class. One of Roediger's key points is that writers of colour had practised 'critical white studies' for a long time before 1990, around the time when 'works by whites on whiteness' began appearing (47). He points repeatedly to one book as the foundation of the tradition, W. E. B. Du Bois's classic Black Reconstruction in America (1935); Roediger's own phrase, 'the wages of whiteness', is based on a similar formulation by Du Bois (62). Knowledge of Du Bois's writings was often transmitted by the Communist Party to the labour activists who became the seminal white critics of whiteness. (DuBois joined the US Communist Party (CPUSA) in 1961, shortly before his death.) The two black intellectuals in this context named by Roediger as key influences are James Baldwin and C. L. R. James. Roediger devotes his entire third chapter to one writer, George Rawick (1929-90), who had worked with James in the 1960s and became 'one of the most important intellectuals bridging the old left and the new' in the United States (76). Rawick came from a Brooklyn family of 'radical rabbis and failed businessmen' (79), was an unhappy Trotskyist and then a reluctant Shachtmanite, who around 1960 joined the James circle. Rawick later became a historian of slavery, whose work emphasized the slaves themselves and the communities they formed. He also helped popularize the term 'working class self-activity' in a 1969 article of that title (77). Roediger describes Rawick as a key figure in the historiography of both slavery and slave communities, as well as the 'new labor history' of the 1970s (76). The point here was that 'labor history' crucially needed to involve the specific history of the self-activity of black workers, both slave and 'free' labour. Doing this required that the historian listen to black intellectuals and, for Roediger, the key figure in this regard was 'the great Black left-nationalist historian' Sterling Stuckey. The emergence of 'whiteness studies' (Chapter 2) in Roediger's narrative begins with Alexander Saxton (1919-2012), who had studied at Harvard and Chicago and had learned first-hand about the centrality of race to labour struggles as a trade union organizer in the railroad and construction industries. Saxton wrote three novels set in proletarian milieux, the first
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Books by Marcel Stoetzler
Critical Theory and the Critique of Antisemitism uncovers how critical theory differs from mainstream socialist or liberal critiques of antisemitism, as it frames its rejection of antisemitism in the critique of other aspects of modern capitalist society, which traditional theories leave unchallenged or critique only in passing. Amongst others, these include issues of identity, nation, race, and sexuality. In exploring the Frankfurt School's writings on antisemitism therefore, the chapters in this book reveal connections to other pressing societal issues, such as racism more broadly, patriarchy, statism, and the societal dynamics of the ever-evolving capitalist mode of production.
Putting the theory to practice, this volume brings together interdisciplinary scholars and activists who employ critical theory to scrutinise right- and left-wing manifestations of antisemitism. They develop, in their critique of antisemitism, a critique of capitalism, as the authors ask: why does modern capitalist society seem bound to produce antisemitism? And how do we challenge it?
At a time when the rise of populism internationally has brought with it new strains of antisemitism, this is an essential resource that demonstrates the continuing relevance of the critical theory of the Frankfurt School for the struggle against antisemitism today.
Contents:
1 Introduction: If it is not mysterious, it is not social theory
2 The well-planned reorganisation of society: Auguste Comte
3 If you can't beat democracy, join it: Alexis de Tocqueville
4 Pariahs of the world, unite!: Flora Tristan
5 Capitalist modernity is the real savagery: Karl Marx
6 The conflict of community and society: Ferdinand Tönnies
7 There is some Thing out there: Emile Durkheim
8 The double consciousness: W. E. B. Du Bois
9 From good to bad capitalism and back: Max Weber
10 Strangers who are from here: Georg Simmel
11 Love, marriage and patriarchy: Marianne Weber
12 Critical versus traditional theory: Max Horkheimer
13 What is a woman, and who is asking anyway: Simone de Beauvoir
14 Society as mediation: Theodor W. Adorno
Antisemitism and the Constitution of Sociology is a collection of essays providing a comparative analysis of modern antisemitism and the rise of sociology. This volume addresses three key areas: the strong influence of writers of Jewish background and the rising tide of antisemitism on the formation of sociology; the role of antisemitism in the historical development of sociology through its treatment by leading figures in the field, such as Emile Durkheim, Talcott Parsons, and Theodor W. Adorno; and the discipline’s development in the aftermath of the Nazi Holocaust. Together the essays provide a fresh perspective on the history of sociology and the role that antisemitism, Jews, fascism, and the Holocaust played in shaping modern social theory.
Marcel Stoetzler is a lecturer in sociology at Bangor University. He is the author of The State, the Nation, and the Jews: Liberalism and the Antisemitism Dispute in Bismarck’s Germany (Nebraska, 2008).
Contributors: Y. Michal Bodemann, Werner Bonefeld, Detlev Claussen, Robert Fine, Chad Alan Goldberg, Irmela Gorges, Jonathan Judaken, Richard H. King, Daniel Lvovich, Amos Morris-Reich, Roland Robertson, Marcel Stoetzler, and Eva-Maria Ziege.
Praise:
“Anyone in the social sciences concerned with antisemitism, prejudice, racism, myth, ideology, and theory should be interested in this volume.”—Mark P. Worrell, associate professor at the State University of New York, Cortland, and author of Dialectic of Solidarity: Labor, Antisemitism, and the Frankfurt School
“This is a remarkable [book] of admirable substance and considerable originality, distinguished by the form and scale of its intellectual ambition and by a kind of stubborn independent-mindedness of approach. . . . Stoetzler succeeds impressively in his purposes, using the immediate subject matter as a lens through which to address a wide range of topics of palpably larger importance. His book is coherently focused, tightly organized, and clearly written at a very high level of intelligence. It makes a major contribution to a variety of important literatures.”—Geoff Eley, Karl Pohrt Distinguished University Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Papers by Marcel Stoetzler
Critical Theory and the Critique of Antisemitism uncovers how critical theory differs from mainstream socialist or liberal critiques of antisemitism, as it frames its rejection of antisemitism in the critique of other aspects of modern capitalist society, which traditional theories leave unchallenged or critique only in passing. Amongst others, these include issues of identity, nation, race, and sexuality. In exploring the Frankfurt School's writings on antisemitism therefore, the chapters in this book reveal connections to other pressing societal issues, such as racism more broadly, patriarchy, statism, and the societal dynamics of the ever-evolving capitalist mode of production.
Putting the theory to practice, this volume brings together interdisciplinary scholars and activists who employ critical theory to scrutinise right- and left-wing manifestations of antisemitism. They develop, in their critique of antisemitism, a critique of capitalism, as the authors ask: why does modern capitalist society seem bound to produce antisemitism? And how do we challenge it?
At a time when the rise of populism internationally has brought with it new strains of antisemitism, this is an essential resource that demonstrates the continuing relevance of the critical theory of the Frankfurt School for the struggle against antisemitism today.
Contents:
1 Introduction: If it is not mysterious, it is not social theory
2 The well-planned reorganisation of society: Auguste Comte
3 If you can't beat democracy, join it: Alexis de Tocqueville
4 Pariahs of the world, unite!: Flora Tristan
5 Capitalist modernity is the real savagery: Karl Marx
6 The conflict of community and society: Ferdinand Tönnies
7 There is some Thing out there: Emile Durkheim
8 The double consciousness: W. E. B. Du Bois
9 From good to bad capitalism and back: Max Weber
10 Strangers who are from here: Georg Simmel
11 Love, marriage and patriarchy: Marianne Weber
12 Critical versus traditional theory: Max Horkheimer
13 What is a woman, and who is asking anyway: Simone de Beauvoir
14 Society as mediation: Theodor W. Adorno
Antisemitism and the Constitution of Sociology is a collection of essays providing a comparative analysis of modern antisemitism and the rise of sociology. This volume addresses three key areas: the strong influence of writers of Jewish background and the rising tide of antisemitism on the formation of sociology; the role of antisemitism in the historical development of sociology through its treatment by leading figures in the field, such as Emile Durkheim, Talcott Parsons, and Theodor W. Adorno; and the discipline’s development in the aftermath of the Nazi Holocaust. Together the essays provide a fresh perspective on the history of sociology and the role that antisemitism, Jews, fascism, and the Holocaust played in shaping modern social theory.
Marcel Stoetzler is a lecturer in sociology at Bangor University. He is the author of The State, the Nation, and the Jews: Liberalism and the Antisemitism Dispute in Bismarck’s Germany (Nebraska, 2008).
Contributors: Y. Michal Bodemann, Werner Bonefeld, Detlev Claussen, Robert Fine, Chad Alan Goldberg, Irmela Gorges, Jonathan Judaken, Richard H. King, Daniel Lvovich, Amos Morris-Reich, Roland Robertson, Marcel Stoetzler, and Eva-Maria Ziege.
Praise:
“Anyone in the social sciences concerned with antisemitism, prejudice, racism, myth, ideology, and theory should be interested in this volume.”—Mark P. Worrell, associate professor at the State University of New York, Cortland, and author of Dialectic of Solidarity: Labor, Antisemitism, and the Frankfurt School
“This is a remarkable [book] of admirable substance and considerable originality, distinguished by the form and scale of its intellectual ambition and by a kind of stubborn independent-mindedness of approach. . . . Stoetzler succeeds impressively in his purposes, using the immediate subject matter as a lens through which to address a wide range of topics of palpably larger importance. His book is coherently focused, tightly organized, and clearly written at a very high level of intelligence. It makes a major contribution to a variety of important literatures.”—Geoff Eley, Karl Pohrt Distinguished University Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor