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9780745328379

Negativity and Revolution Adorno and Political Activism

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  • ISBN13:

    9780745328379

  • ISBN10:

    0745328377

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2008-11-20
  • Publisher: UCP

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Summary

John Holloway et al explore solutions to postmodern political paralysis in the 'negative dialectics' of Theodor Adorno.

Author Biography

John Holloway, Fernando Matamoros and Sergio Tischler are all professors in the Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades of the Benemérita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla in Mexico.
John Holloway is the author of Change the World Without Taking Power (Pluto Press, new edition 2005).
Fernando Matamoros is the author of La Pensée Coloniale, Découverte, Conquête et Guerre des Dieux au Mexique (2007) and co-author (with Sylvie Bosserelle and Etienne Dehau) of Mexique, vision de l'empire des dieux (2005)
Sergio Tischler is the co-editor (with Werner Bonefeld) of What is to be Done? Leninism, Anti-Leninist Marxism and the Question of Revolution Today (2002)

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Issues
Negativity and Revolution: Adorno and Political Activismp. 3
Why Adorno?p. 12
Pied Pipers and Polymaths: Adorno's Critique of Praxisismp. 18
Negative Dialectics Versus Neo-Structuralism
Antagonism and Difference: Negative Dialectics and Poststructuralism in View of the Critique of Modern Capitalismp. 41
Adorno and Post-vanguardismp. 79
Negative and Positive Autonomism. Or Why Adorno? Part 2p. 95
Emancipation and the Critique of Totality
Adorno: The Conceptual Prison of the Subject, Political Fetishism and Class Strugglep. 103
Emancipatory Praxis and Conceptuality in Adornop. 122
The Politics of Sexuality and Art
Adorno, Non-identity, Sexualityp. 151
Solidarity with the Fall of Metaphysics: Negativity and Hopep. 189
Mimesis and Distance: Arts and the Social in Adorno's Thoughtp. 228
List of Contributorsp. 241
Name Indexp. 242
Subject Indexp. 246
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