Negative Dialectics and Event
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Negative Dialectics and Event

Nonidentity, Culture, and the Historical Adequacy of Consciousness

  1. 187 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Negative Dialectics and Event

Nonidentity, Culture, and the Historical Adequacy of Consciousness

About this book

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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Information

Year
2021
eBook ISBN
9781978798649
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Foreword
  4. Permissions
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Prologue
  7. Philosophy and the Concept of Nonidentity
  8. Negative Dialectics and the Historical Adequacy of Consciousness
  9. Politics and the Notion of Event
  10. Adorno, Badiou, and the Politics of Breaking Out
  11. May 1968 and Adorno
  12. Society, Cultural Criticism, and Historical Consciousness
  13. The Relevance of the Theory of Pseudo-Culture
  14. The Erosion of Historical Consciousness and the New Old Barbarism
  15. Epilogue
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index
  18. About the Author