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Built upon the principle that divides and elevates humans above
other animals, humanism is the cornerstone of a worldview that
sanctifies inequality and threatens all animal life. Adorno,
Politics, and the Aesthetic Animal analyses this state of affairs
and suggests an alternative - a way for humanity to make itself
into a new kind of animal. Theodor W. Adorno has been accused of
leading critical theory into a blind alley, divorced from practical
social and political concerns. In Adorno, Politics, and the
Aesthetic Animal, Caleb J. Basnett argues that by placing the
problem of the human/animal distinction at the centre of Adorno's
thought, we discover a new Adorno, one whose critique of domination
is in dialogue with classic concerns of political thought forged by
Aristotle, including questions of humanist political education and
the role of art. Through a close reading of primary sources,
Basnett identifies the principal conceptual structure entwined with
the understanding of human life as antagonistic to other animals,
and outlines how forms of aesthetic experience disrupt this
problematic concept in favour of a reconceptualization of what we
call human. His analysis displaces the centrality of the human and
attempts to open up a space for its transformation, both in terms
of how humans relate to each other and in how humans relate to
other animals.
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