By Stefano Giacchetti Ludovisi
ISBN-10: 1472447735
ISBN-13: 9781472447739
ISBN-10: 1472447743
ISBN-13: 9781472447746
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This quantity explores chance of making a political consequence from the speculation of the early years of the Frankfurt tuition, countering the commonly-made feedback that serious thought is very speculative. With chapters exploring the paintings of figures critical to the Frankfurt tuition, together with Benjamin, Adorno, Horkheimer, Marcuse, Habermas and Honneth, severe concept and the problem of Praxis unearths that it's only with a set and dogmatic version of politics that serious conception is incompatible, and that it might in truth yield a wealthy number of political types, starting from new sorts of Marxism to extra modern 'dialogical' versions concentrated at the politics of id. With awareness to new methods of contrasting alienation and reification in modern different types of social corporation, this e-book demonstrates that the idea of the Frankfurt tuition can actually be a useful software not just for constructing a critique of complex capitalism, but additionally for originating replacement types of political praxis. As such, it's going to entice students of social and political concept, with pursuits in classical sociological concept and continental philosophy
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H. Simon (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1994), 274. 16 Adorno, Terminologia Filosofica, vol. 2, 468 (my translation). Adorno as Marx’s Scholar 39 “false” since it is grounded on a concept of value molded by the model of domination that aims at profit rather than the satisfaction of human needs. The whole social construction acquires in this way the character of appearance and falsity since it is built on abstraction from material needs. This is the radical difference between Hegel’s and Marx’s dialectics: The Marxian system can be defined as a negative or critical system, an absolutely critical theory.
What we should try to see here is how it is possible to “spell out” these hints in Adorno, concerning in particular a form of another point of Habermas’s critique remains valid, namely, that the lack of normativity in Adorno prevents him from developing a genuine political theory. 6 Adorno develops his analysis of the relationship between theory and praxis in one of the essays in his Critical Models: “Marginalia to theory and praxis” (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998), 259–78. W. Adorno, Critical Models, trans.
But ever since class consciousness has been turned into the most passive acceptance of capitalist ideology, who can expect a Marxist revolution today? Adorno’s most systematic works, Negative Dialectics and Aesthetic Theory, seem to support this pessimistic perspective, leaving art as the only form of practical resistance. It seems, then, that in order to provide an interpretation of Adorno’s theory that allows the development of a concrete model of praxis, we should not consider his aesthetic theory as the conclusive answer he proposes for the construction of an alternative to the social model of domination.
Critical Theory and the Challenge of Praxis: Beyond Reification by Stefano Giacchetti Ludovisi
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