Reading Adorno : the endless road / Amirhosein Khandizaji, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Khandizaji, Amirhosein, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969--Criticism and interpretation.

Adorno, Theodor W.

Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969.

Critical theory.

Social sciences--Philosophy.

Social sciences.

Philosophy, Modern--20th century.

Philosophy, Modern.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xii, 253 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]

Summary:

This book draws on core concepts coined by Adorno, such as identity thinking, the culture industry, and his critique of the autonomous and rational subject, to address the ills that plague neoliberal capitalist societies today--back cover.

Contents:

1. Two Critiques of Identity: Adorno and Castoriadis on the Capitalist Imaginary / Craig Browne

2. Adorno, De Martino and the Adventures of the Self / Stefano Petrucciani

3. The Truth-Potential (Wahrheitsgehalt) of the Culture Industry: On the Actuality of Horkheimer and Adorno's Diagnosis / Hauke Brunkhorst

4. Laughing at the Other: Toward an Understanding of the Alt-Right with Adorno / Claudia Leeb

5. Bella Swan and Katniss Everdeen: The Expectation of Motherhood in the Culture Industry / Laci Hubbard-Mattix

6. The Sensible and the Intelligible: Artistic Form and Testimony in Adorno's Reflections / Giuseppe Di Giacomo

7. Adorno and the Subversive Potential of Popular Music / Hans-Herbert Kögler

8. Adorno and the Magic Square: Schönberg and Stravinsky in Mann's Doctor Faustus / Geoff Boucher

9. 'Idiot with a Spoon': Adorno, Petrini, and the Oppositional Politics of Slow Food / Mary Caputi

10. Functionalism Yesterday, Functionalism Tomorrow: Thoughts Inspired by Adorno's Address to the Deutscher Werkbund, "Funktionalismus Heute," Delivered in Berlin on October 3, 1965 / Barry M. Katz

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3030190471

9783030190477

OCLC:

1091000504