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Adorno on Politics after Auschwitz
ISBN-13:
9781498515757
Veröffentl:
2015
Seiten:
158
Autor:
Gary A. Mullen
eBook Typ:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
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.
In the minds of many critical theorists, Theodor W. Adorno epitomizes the failure of critical theory to provide any concrete guidance for political practice. His name is almost synonymous with the retreat of the progressive intellectual from the creeping totalitarianism of contemporary mass democracy. This book endeavors to disrupt this misconception by offering a close reading of Adorno’s philosophical confrontation with the Holocaust and the modern conceptions of history, morality and subjectivity that are complicit in genocide. By rethinking the relationship between reason and remembrance, morality and materiality, mimesis and political violence, Adorno’s work offers not only incisive criticism of modern political ideas and institutions, it also shows us intimations of a different political practice.
Chapter 1: Rationality and Remembrance
Chapter 2: Morality and Materiality
Chapter 3: Mimesis and Political Violence
Chapter 4: Genocidal Politics: From Nazi Germany to Rwanda
Chapter 5: Negative Dialectics, Democracy and Divine Violence
Chapter 6: Violence and Utopia
Chapter 7: Democracy as the Critique of Fascism
Chapter 8: Political Judgment, Genocide and the Prison-Industrial Complex
Chapter 2: Morality and Materiality
Chapter 3: Mimesis and Political Violence
Chapter 4: Genocidal Politics: From Nazi Germany to Rwanda
Chapter 5: Negative Dialectics, Democracy and Divine Violence
Chapter 6: Violence and Utopia
Chapter 7: Democracy as the Critique of Fascism
Chapter 8: Political Judgment, Genocide and the Prison-Industrial Complex