Adorno and Marx

Negative Dialectics and the Critique of Political Economy

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

Av Werner Bonefeld, Chris O’Kane, UK) Bonefeld, Dr. Werner (University of York, USA) O’Kane, Chris (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Chris O'Kane

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While Adorno has tended to be read as a critic of the administered world and the consumer industry rather than a Marxist, Adorno and Marx establishes Adorno’s negative dialectics as fundamental for understanding Marx’s critique of political economy. This conception of the critique of political economy as a critical theory marks both a radical departure from traditional Marxist scholarship and from traditional readings of Adorno’s work and warns against identifying Adorno with Marx or Marx with Adorno. Rather, it highlights the intersection between Adorno’s critical theory and Marx’s critique of political economy that produces a critical theory of economic objectivity that moves beyond Marxian economics and Adornonian social theory.Adorno and Marx offers an ingenious account of critical social theory. Its subversion of the economic categories of political economy contributes to the cutting-edge of contemporary social theory and its critique of social practice.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-06-30
Mått156 x 234 x 23 mm
Vikt566 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieCritical Theory and the Critique of Society
Antal sidor272
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350193635

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Werner Bonefeld is Professor of Politics at the University of York, UK. He is the author of The Strong State and PoliticalEconomy (2017), Critical Theory and the Critique of Political Economy (Bloomsbury, 2014) and is co-editor of The SAGE Handbook of Frankfurt School Critical Theory (with Beverly Best and Chris O'Kane, 2018). He is also co-editor the Bloomsbury series Critical Theory and the Critique of Society (with Chris O'Kane)Chris O’Kane is Assistant Professor of Political Science at University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, USA.

1. Adorno and Marx: Negative Dialectics and the Critique of Political Economy, Werner Bonefeld and Chris O’Kane (University of York, UK and University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, USA)Part I : Adorno and the New Reading of Marx2. Cracking Economic Abstractions: Bringing Critical Theory Back-In, Werner Bonefeld (University of York, UK)3. Adorno and the Critique of Political Economy, Dirk Braunstein and Niko Bobka (Institute of Social Research, Frankfurt, and University of Göttingen, Germany)4. Adorno and the New reading of Marx, and Methodologies of Critique, Charlotte Baumann (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)5. Marxian Economics and the Critique of Political Economy, Chris O’Kane and Kirstin Munro (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, USA)Part II : Critique of Political Economy as Negative Dialectic of Society6. Economic Objectivity and Negative Dialectics: On Class and Struggle, Werner Bonefeld (University of York, UK)7. The Liquidation of the Individual as a Critique of Political Economy, Fabian Arzuaga (College of William and Mary, USA)8. Society as Real Abstraction: Adorno’s Critique of Economic Nature, Charles Prusik (Villanova University, USA)9. Society Maintains itself despite all Catastrophes that may Eventuate: Critical Theory, Negative Totality, and Permanent Catastrophe, Chris O’Kane (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, USA)Part III: Subjectivity and Pseudo Practice: on Social Praxis10. Conceptuality and Social Practice, Werner Bonefeld (University of York, UK)11. Non-identity, critique of labour and pseudo-praxis: extra-marginal palinlegomena on the dialectics of doing, Marcel Stoetzler (Bangor University, UK)Appendix12. Introduction to ‘Theodor W. Adorno on Marx and the Basic Concepts of Sociological Theory. From a Seminar Transcript in the Summer Semester of 1962, Chris O’Kane (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, USA)13. Marx and the Basic Concepts of Sociological Theory: From a Seminar Transcript in the Summer Semester of 1962, Theodor W Adorno

The illuminating studies gathered in this collection bring to the surface, for thought and discussion, capital’s submerged social content—concealed, as it must be, in the ‘objective illusion’ of the economy. One of capital’s deadly abstractions, the economy is neither the base of capitalist society, nor the source of its movement; it is, rather, the constellation of inverted appearances assumed by the capital-labour relation itself. Read this book because thinking Adorno and Marx together shows us how capital continues by moving on in the guise of something new—it always was the something worse yet to come.