Adorno on Politics after Auschwitz.

By:

Mullen, Gary A

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781498515757

Subject(s):

Political violence - Philosophy

Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Adorno on Politics after AuschwitzDDC classification:

320.092

LOC classification:

B3199.A34M837 2016

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Contents:

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Rationality and Remembrance -- Chapter Two: Morality and Materiality -- Chapter Three: Mimesis and Political Violence -- Chapter Four: Identity and Genocide -- Chapter Five: Negative Dialectic and Democracy -- Chapter Six: Violence and Utopia -- Chapter Seven: Democracy as the Critique of Fascism -- Chapter Eight: Genocide, Political Judgment, and the Prison Industrial Complex -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

Summary: This book offers a close reading of Adorno's more explicitly political writings and his work on fascist and anti-Semitic propaganda, and argues for the continuing relevance of these works for contemporary political practice. Adorno's criticism of political violence and mass movements has, surprisingly, yet to be brought to bear upon contemporary developments in critical theory in the vein of Slavoj Žižek and Alan Badiou. Since a significant portion of this book is dedicated to offering an Adornian response to Žižek, it situates Adorno in the contemporary discussion on strategies for resistance to global capitalism.

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This book offers a close reading of Adorno's more explicitly political writings and his work on fascist and anti-Semitic propaganda, and argues for the continuing relevance of these works for contemporary political practice. Adorno's criticism of political violence and mass movements has, surprisingly, yet to be brought to bear upon contemporary developments in critical theory in the vein of Slavoj Žižek and Alan Badiou. Since a significant portion of this book is dedicated to offering an Adornian response to Žižek, it situates Adorno in the contemporary discussion on strategies for resistance to global capitalism.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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