Negativity and Revolution

John Holloway has published widely on Marxist theory, on the Zapatista movement and on the new forms of anti-capitalist struggle. His book Change the World without Taking Power has been translated into eleven languages and has stirred an international debate, and Crack Capitalism is a renowned classic. He is currently Professor of Sociology in the Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades of the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla in Mexico.Phil O'Keefe is Professor of Economic Development and Environmental Management at Northumbria University. He is also the Director of ETC-UK and co-author with Neil Middleton of Disaster and Development (Pluto, 1997), Redefining Sustainable Development (Pluto, 2001), Rio Plus Ten (Pluto, 2003) and co-editor of Negotiating Poverty (Pluto, 2003).Sergio Tischler is the co-editor (with Werner Bonefeld) of Negativity and Revolution (Pluto, 2008) and What is to be Done? Leninism, Anti-Leninist Marxism and the Question of Revolution Today (2002).

• AcknowledgementsI Introduction to the Issues1. Negativity and Revolution: Adorno and Political Activism John Holloway. Fernando Matamoros, Sergio Tischler2. Why Adorno? John Holloway3. Pied Pipers and Polymaths: Adorno's Critique of Praxisism - Adrian WildingII Negative Dialectics versus Neo-Structuralism4. Antagonism and Difference: Negative Dialectics and Poststructuralism in View of the Critique of Modern Capitalism - Alberto R. Bonnet5. Adorno and Post-vanguardism - Darij Zadnikar6. Positive and Negative Autonomism. Or Why Adorno? Part 2John HollowayIII Emancipation and the Critique of Totality7. Adorno: The Conceptual Prison of the Subject, Political Fetishism and Class Struggle - Sergio Tischler8. Emancipatory Praxis and Conceptuality in Adorno - Werner Bonefeld IV The Politics of Sexuality and Art9. Adorno, Non-identity, Sexuality - Marcel Stoetzler10. Solidarity with the Fall of Metaphysics: Negativity and Hope - Fernando Matamoros11. Mimesis and Distance: Arts and the Social in Adorno's Thought - Jose Manuel MartinezList of ContributorsName IndexSubject Index

'This book could well have been titled 'Reading Adorno Politically.' Using Adorno's work as touchstone and emphasising the originality of his negative dialectics, these essays engage some of the most important debates among contemporary political theorists and activists'