John D. Abromeit
John D. Abromeit
Assistant Professor
(716) 878-4465
Campus Address: Classroom Building C223
abromejd@buffalostate.edu
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
Modern European Intellectual History, German History, Critical Social Theory
Publications
Books
Herbert Marcuse: A Critical Reader, co-edited with W. Mark Cobb. Routledge, 2004.
Herbert Marcuse: Heideggerian Marxism, co-edited with Richard Wolin. University of Nebraska, 2005.
Dialectic of Bourgeois Society: An Intellectual Biography of Max Horkheimer, 1895-1941 (in preparation).
Articles/Book Reviews
"When Poetry Ruled the Streets: The French May of Events of 1968," Theory, Culture and Society, vol. 19, no. 4, (August, 2002), pp. 255-61. http://tcs.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/19/4/255.pdf?ck=nck
"Remembering Adorno," Radical Philosophy, no. 124 (March/April 2004), pp. 27-38. http://www.radicalphilosophy.com/pdf/124_abromeit.pdf.
"The Vicissitudes of the Politics of 'Life:' Max Horkheimer and Herbert Marcuse’s Reception of Phenomenology and Vitalism in Weimar Germany." Paper presented at the conference, "Living Weimar Between System and Self," University of Indiana, September 2006. https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/1833/
“Left Heideggerianism or Phenomenological Marxism? Revisiting Herbert Marcuse’s Critical Theory of Technology.” Forthcoming in Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory (Fall, 2009).
“The Origins and Development of the Model of Early Critical Theory in the Work of Max Horkheimer, Erich Fromm and Herbert Marcuse,” Politics and the Human Sciences, ed. David Ingram. This will be the fifth of an eight volume History of Continental Philosophy, ed. Alan Schrift (London: Acumen Publishing, 2010).
“The Limits of Praxis: The Social Psychological Foundations of Herbert Marcuse and Theodor Adorno’s Interpretations of the 1960s Protest Movements,” Changing the World, Changing Oneself: Political Protest and Collective Identities in the 1960s/70s West Germany and U.S., eds. B. Davis, W. Mausbach, M. Klimke and C. MacDougall (Berghahn Books, 2010).
