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In the minds of many critical theorists, Theodor W. Adorno epitomizes the failure of critical theory to provide any concrete guidance for political practice. His name is almost synonymous with the retreat of the progressive intellectual from the creeping totalitarianism of contemporary mass democracy. This book endeavors to disrupt this misconception by offering a close reading of Adorno's philosophical confrontation with the Holocaust and the modern conceptions of history, morality and subjectivity that are complicit in genocide. By rethinking the relationship between reason and remembrance, morality and materiality, mimesis and political violence, Adorno's work offers not only incisive criticism of modern political ideas and institutions, it also shows us intimations of a different political practice.
Contents
Chapter 1: Rationality and Remembrance
Chapter 2: Morality and Materiality
Chapter 3: Mimesis and Political Violence
Chapter 4: Genocidal Politics: From Nazi Germany to Rwanda
Chapter 5: Negative Dialectics, Democracy and Divine Violence
Chapter 6: Violence and Utopia
Chapter 7: Democracy as the Critique of Fascism
Chapter 8: Political Judgment, Genocide and the Prison-Industrial Complex
