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Negative Dialectics and Event

Nonidentity, Culture, and the Historical Adequacy of Consciousness

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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History is replete with false and unfulfilled promises, as well as singular acts of courage, resilience, and ingenuity. These episodes have led to significant changes in the way people think and act in the world or have set the stage for such transformations in the form of rational expectations in theory and the hopeful anticipations of dialectical imagination. Negative Dialectics and Event: Nonidentity, Culture, and the Historical Adequacy of Consciousness revisits some of Theodor W. Adorno’s most influential writings and theoretical interventions to argue not only that his philosophy is uniquely suited to bring such events into sharp relief and reflect on their entailments but also that an effective historical consciousness today would be a consciousness awake to the events that interpellate and shape it into existence. More broadly, Vangelis Giannakakis presents a compelling argument in support of the view that the critical theory developed by the first generation of the Frankfurt School still has much to offer in terms of both cultivating insights into contemporary human experience and building resistance against states of affairs that impede human flourishing and happiness.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-11-04
Mått160 x 227 x 19 mm
Vikt526 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieContinental Philosophy and the History of Thought
Antal sidor186
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
MedarbetareO’Connor,Brian
ISBN9781793638861

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Foreword by Brian O’ConnorAcknowledgmentsPermissionsProloguePart One: Philosophy and the Concept of NonidentityI. Negative Dialectics and the Historical Adequacy of ConsciousnessPart Two: Politics and the Notion of EventII. Adorno, Badiou and the Politics of Breaking OutIII. May ’68 and Adorno, Theoretical Refractions in the Time of RevoltPart Three: Society, Cultural Criticism and Historical ConsciousnessIV. The Relevance of the Theory of Pseudo-CultureV. The Erosion of Historical Consciousness and the New Old BarbarismEpilogueBibliographyIndexAbout the author

Can dialectical thought still carve our late capitalist reality at its joints? In this bold, lucid, and searching book, Vangelis Giannakakis revisits the writings of Theodor W. Adorno to make a compelling case for negative dialectics as a vital intellectual resource in the face of our ‘new old barbarism.’ He does so by recalling, from different angles, the imperative to think together negation and novelty—and by bringing Adorno into an unexpected if fruitful dialogue with the philosophy of Alain Badiou. An important intervention for all those persuaded that the first axiom of a critical, emancipatory philosophy is: society must not be defended.