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A major intervention into the place of Marxist political economy in the work of celebrated critical theorist Theodor Adorno. To this day, there persists a widespread assumption that Theodor Adorno's references to Marx-and especially to Marx's critique of political economy-represent a relic from an early and short-lived stage of the great Frankfurt School critical theorist's intellectual development. In this book, on the basis of relevant and largely unpublished textual sources, Adorno scholar Dirk Braunstein powerfully refutes this thesis and shows that Adorno's critical theory of society is centrally concerned with a critique not only of political economy, but of economy in general.

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Author:   Dirk Braunstein ,  Adam Baltner
Publisher:   Haymarket Books
Imprint:   Haymarket Books
ISBN:  

9781642599923

ISBN 10:   1642599921
Pages:   420
Publication Date:   24 November 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Front Matter Preliminary Material Pages: i–x Copyright Page Translator’s Note Acknowledgements Chapter 1 Attempting a Critique of Political Economy Pages: 1–6 Part 1 Chapter 2 The Most Important Marxist Publication on Hegel Pages: 9–29 Chapter 3 Objection to the Intérieur and the Sociology of Interiority Pages: 30–70 Chapter 4 Familiarity with Its First Chapter Pages: 71–105 Part 2 Chapter 5 The Theoretically Useless Concept of State Capitalism Pages: 109–137 Chapter 6 Hatched a National-Economic (!!) Theory Pages: 138–157 Chapter 7 Humanity Had to Inflict Terrible Injuries on Itself Pages: 158–193 Chapter 8 Garbage Pages: 194–219 Chapter 9 The Curse of Writing Today Pages: 220–236 Part 3 Chapter 10 ?? Did He Read Marx? Pages: 239–256 Chapter 11 Eating and Being Eaten Pages: 257–292 Chapter 12 Point of Indifference Pages: 293–318 Chapter 13 Something’s Missing Pages: 319–349 Chapter 14 Raison d’être Pages: 350–353 Back Matter Bibliography Afterword to the Second Edition Pages: 399–400 Index

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Dirk Braunstein is research fellow at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt, Germany. He has published several books, articles and editions on Adorno, recently Die Frankfurter Seminare Theodor W. Adornos. Gesammelte Sitzungsprotokolle 19491969 [The Frankfurt Seminars of Theodor W. Adorno. Collected Minutes of Meetings 19491969]. 4 Volumes. Berlin und Boston: de Gruyter (2021)

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