Randall Halle: Queer Social Philosophy: Critical Readings from Kant to Adorno.(Book review)
Germanic Review, The, June, 2006 by Breger, Claudia
Randall Halle
Queer Social Philosophy: Critical Readings from Kant to Adorno
Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2004. Pp. 236.
A specter haunts modern European social philosophy: "the dread of the queer" (5; emphasis in orginal). On the level of anecdote, Halle situates the beginnings of his investigation in the office of a faculty member, a specialist on the Frankfurt School, to whom the bemused student had turned with a question about a particular line in the Dialectic of the Enlightenment. The professor replied that although having read the passage in question "countless times," he had never noticed that line, which seemed to say that homosexuality was the cause of fascism. He shrugged his shoulders and guided the student to the door (5). In...
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