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Towards a New Manifesto

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Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer wrote the central text of "critical theory", Dialectic of Enlightenment, a measured critique of the Enlightenment reason that, they argued, had resulted in fascism and totalitarianism.Towards a New Manifesto shows the two philosophers in a uniquely spirited and free-flowing exchange of ideas. This book is a record of their discussions over three weeks in the spring of 1956, recorded with a view to the production of a contemporary version of The Communist Manifesto. A philosophical jam-session in which the two thinkers improvise freely, often wildly, on central themes of their work-theory and practice, labor and leisure, domination and freedom-in a political register found nowhere else in their writing. Amid a careening flux of arguments, aphorisms and asides, in which the trenchant alternates with the reckless, the playful with the ingenuous, positions are swapped and contradictions unheeded, without any compulsion for consistency. A thrilling example of philosophy in action and a compelling map of a possible passage to a new world. This new edition contains two texts on needs by Adorno and Horkheimer that have been translated for the first time or have been difficult to access.

About the author

Max Horkheimer (1895-1973) was a philosopher and sociologist and director of the Institute for Social Research from 1930 to 1959.Theodor Adorno was director of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Frankfurt from 1959 until his death in 1969. His works include In Search of Wagner; Aesthetic Theory; Negative Dialectics; and (with Max Horkheimer) Dialectic of Enlightenment and Towards a New Manifesto.

Product details

Authors Theodor Adorno, Adorno Theodor, Max Horkheimer, Max Adorno Horkheimer
Assisted by Rodney Livingstone (Translation), Livingstone Rodney (Translation)
Publisher Verso
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback
Released 31.08.2018
 
EAN 9781786635532
ISBN 978-1-78663-553-2
No. of pages 112
Dimensions 130 mm x 200 mm x 10 mm
Series Pocket Communism
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology
Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous

PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Essays, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Consumerism, Marxism & Communism

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