Early Frankfurt School and Religion

Margarete Kohlenbach taught in Germany and France before coming to England, where she now teaches German at the University of Sussex. Her recent publications include Walter Benjamin: Self-Reference and Religiosity (2002) as well as several articles on Romanticism, Twentieth-Century German literature and culture, and Critical Theory. Raymond Geuss studied and taught at various universities in Germany and the USA, before coming to Cambridge, where he teaches in the Faculty of Philosophy. His recent publications include History and Illusion in Politics (2001), Public Goods, Private Goods (2001).

• Acknowledgements Abbreviations and Translations Notes on the Contributors Introduction: The Frankfurt School and the Problem of Religion; M.Kohlenbach & R.Geuss PART I: STUDENTS, THEOLOGIANS, CRITICAL THEORISTS Max Horkheimer's 'Religious Conversion'? A Semantic Analysis; P.Eitler On the Usefulness and Uselessness of Religious Illusions; R.Geuss PART II: CONSTRUCTIONS OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE Emerging 'Orders': The Contemporary Relevance of Religion and Teaching in Walter Benjamin's Early Thought; P.Fiorato Religion, Experience, Politics: On Erich Unger and Walter Benjamin; M.Kohlenbach Allegory, Metonymy and Creatureliness: Walter Benjamin and the Religious Roots of Modern Art; B.Maj PART III: LEGAL PHILOSOPHY AND JEWISH TRADITION Law and Religion in Early Critical Theory; C.Thornhill Jewish Law and Tradition in the Early Work of Erich Fromm; D.Groiser Critical Theory and the New Thinking: A Preliminary Approach; H.Caygill PART IV: DIALECTIC OF ENLIGHTENMENT - RECONSIDERED Does Dialectic of Enlightenment Rest on Religious Foundations?; R.Bittner Secularisation, Myth, Anti-Semitism: Adorno and Horkheimer's Dialectic of Enlightenment and Cassirer's Philosophy of Symbolic Forms; G.Raulet Bibliography Index