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Article: The Terms of Cultural Criticism: The Frankfurt School, Existentialism, Poststructuralism.
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- Criticism
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- June 22, 1993
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By Richard Wolin. New York: Columbia University Press, 1992. Pp. xxv + 256. $35.00.
Richard Wolin's new book, The Terms of Cultural Criticism: The Frankfurt School, Existentialism, Poststructuralism, features on its cover Man Ray's 1930 "Portrait Imaginaire de D.A.F. de Sade." Wolin notes that Sade "had become a figure of totemic significance for the Surrealists" (xxiii), refers to Ray's effort as "one of the most stunning achievements of the entire repertoire of surrealist painting" (xxiv), and then concludes his discussion with the suggestion that "Man Ray's Sade captures something of the dialectic of Enlightenment: the moment in which unchecked revolutionary ...