Adorno and Marx: Negative Dialectics and the Critique of Political Economy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781350193673)

While Adorno has tended to be read as a critic of the administered world and the consumer industry rather than a Marxist, Adorno and Marx establishes Adorno's negative dialectics as fundamental for understanding Marx's critique of political economy. This conception of the critique of political economy as a critical theory marks both a radical departure from traditional Marxist scholarship and from traditional readings of Adorno's work and warns against identifying Adorno with Marx or Marx with Adorno. Rather, it highlights the intersection between Adorno's critical theory and Marx's critique of political economy that produces a critical theory of economic objectivity that moves beyond Marxian economics and Adornonian social theory.

Adorno and Marx offers an ingenious account of critical social theory. Its subversion of the economic categories of political economy contributes to the cutting-edge of contemporary social theory and its critique of social practice.


Author: Werner Bonefeld
ISBN-10: 1350193674
ISBN-13: 9781350193673
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 01/25/2024
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.57d