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Adorno, Culture and Feminism Adorno, Culture and Feminism edited by Maggie O'Neill SAGE Publications London · Thousand Oaks · New Delhi Editorial arrangement, Introduction and Chapter 1 © Maggie O'Neill 1999 Chapter 2 © Shierry Weber Nicholsen 1999 Chapter 3 © Silvia L. Lopez 1999 Chapter 4 © Sinkwan Cheng 1999 Chapter 5 © Regina Becker-Schmidt 1999 Chapter 6 © Gudrun Axeli Knapp 1999 Chapter 7 © Juliet Flower MacCannell 1999 Chapter 8 © Barbara Engh 1999 Chapter 9 © Hilde Heynen 1999 First published 1999 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, transmitted or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without permission in writing from the Publishers. SAGE Publications Ltd 6 Bonhill Street London EC2A 4PU SAGE Publications Inc 2455 Teller Road Thousand Oaks, California 91320 SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd 32, M-Block Market Greater Kailash - I New Delhi 110 048 British Library Cataloguing in Publication data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN 0 7619 5216 0 ISBN 0 7619 5217 9 (pbk) Library of Congress catalog card number 98-61887 Typeset by Photoprint, Torquay Printed in Great Britain by The Cromwell Press Ltd, Trowbridge, Wiltshire To Marie and Bill, Steve, Patrick and James Contents The Contributors ix Acknowledgements xii Foreword xiii Introduction 1 Part I - Critical Social Theory: Aesthetics and Politics 1 Adorno and Women: Negative Dialectics, Kulturkritik and Unintentional Truth Maggie O'Neill 21 2 Adorno, Benjamin and the Aura: An Aesthetics for Photography Shierry Weber Nicholsen 41 3 The Encoding of History: Thinking Art in Constellations Silvia L. Lopez 66 4 Fremdworter as The Jews of Language' and Adorno's Politics of Exile Sinkwan Cheng 75 Part II - Feminism, Culture and Society: The Relevance of Critical Theory for Contemporary Feminisms 5 Critical Theory as a Critique of Society: Theodor W. Adorno's Significance for a Feminist Sociology Regina Becker-Schmidt 104 6 Fragile Foundations, Strong Traditions, Situated Questioning: Critical Theory in German-speaking Feminism Gudrun Axeli Knapp 119 7 Adorno: The Riddle of Femininity Juliet Flower MacCannell 141 8 Of Music and Mimesis Barbara Engh 161 9 Mimesis, Dwelling and Architecture: Adorno's Relevance for a Feminist Theory of Architecture Hilde Heynen \1A Index 191 The Contributors Regina Becker-Schmidt is Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Hanover, Germany, and has also been a visiting professor of feminist theory at the University of Vienna, University of Linz, University of Connecticut, University of Advanced Studies of Vienna and Roskilde University, Denmark. Regina received her doctorate from the Institute for Social Research, Frankfurt-on-Main and her research interests are focused upon gender relations and the constitution of gender difference as well as the social psychology of technology. Regina teaches critical theory, psycho- analysis, social psychology and political psychology and has authored and co-authored (with Gudrun Axeli Knapp) a number of books concerning working-class women, gender relations and social formation, technological development and androcentrism. These include Arbeitsleben-Lebensarbeit; Geschlechtertrennung-Geschlechterdifferenz\ Arbeit erkinder, Das Gesch- lechterverhaltnis als Gegenstand der Sozialwissenschaften; and Zeitbilder der Technik. Sinkwan Cheng is a Research Associate in the English and Comparative Literature Department at the University of California, Irvine, USA. She has published seven articles and reviews in various areas including psycho- analysis, French and German critical theory, post-colonial and cultural studies, twentieth-century British and Asian American literature, as well as legal and political philosophy. Her dissertation was awarded a distinction by the Department of Comparative Literature at the State University of New York, Buffalo in the summer of 1995, and, at the invitation of Henry Sussman, is currently being revised for possible inclusio n in his 'Psycho- analysis and Culture' series. She also won an Excellence in Teaching Award at SUNY, Buffalo, in a campus-wide competition . Barbara Engh is Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds, UK. Her essay on music and critique in the work of Roland Barthes ('Loving it: music and criticism in Roland Barthes') appears in Ruth Solle's Musicology and Difference: Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarship, and an essay 'Adorno and the Sirens: tele-phono-graphic bodies' appears in Embodied Voices: Representing Female Vocality in Western Culture (1994). At present Barbara is writing a book on phonography, entitled After 'His Master's Voice': Post-phonographic Aurality. Hilde Heynen is Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture, Urban Design and Planning at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium .
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