Negative Dialectics and Event
Nonidentity, Culture, and the Historical Adequacy of Consciousness
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2021
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-3886-1 (ISBN)
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-3886-1 (ISBN)
Negative Dialectics and Event: Nonidentity, Culture, and the Historical Adequacy of Consciousness studies the concept of “event” as it relates to Theodor W. Adorno’s philosophy and critical social theory.
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.
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.
Vangelis Giannakakis is visiting fellow of philosophy at Goethe University Frankfurt.
Foreword by Brian O’Connor
Acknowledgments
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Prologue
Part One: Philosophy and the Concept of Nonidentity
I. Negative Dialectics and the Historical Adequacy of Consciousness
Part Two: Politics and the Notion of Event
II. Adorno, Badiou and the Politics of Breaking Out
III. May ’68 and Adorno, Theoretical Refractions in the Time of Revolt
Part Three: Society, Cultural Criticism and Historical Consciousness
IV. The Relevance of the Theory of Pseudo-Culture
V. The Erosion of Historical Consciousness and the New Old Barbarism
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
About the author
| Erscheinungsdatum | 16.08.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Continental Philosophy and the History of Thought |
| Vorwort | Brian O’Connor |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 160 x 227 mm |
| Gewicht | 526 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-7936-3886-1 / 1793638861 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-7936-3886-1 / 9781793638861 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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