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Negative Dialectics and Event - Nonidentity, Culture, and the Historical Adequacy of Consciousness (Hardcover)
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Negative Dialectics and Event - Nonidentity, Culture, and the Historical Adequacy of Consciousness (Hardcover)
Series: Continental Philosophy and the History of Thought
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History is replete with false and unfulfilled promises, but also
with 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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