Towards a New Manifesto
Theodor Adorno & Max Horkheimer
Language: English
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: Oct 3, 2011
Words:
13154
Flesch:
74.16
DDC:
193
FAST Tags:
Philosophy,
Philosophy; German,
Communism and philosophy
LCC:
B3199.A33
LC Genre:
Philosophy And Psychology>Modern Western Philosophy>Philosophy of Germany
Book Details
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Description:
A thrilling example of philosophy in action, Towards a New Manifesto reveals the fathers of critical theory, Adorno and Horkheimer, in a uniquely spirited and free-flowing exchange of ideas.
A record of their discussions over three weeks in the spring of 1956, recorded with a view to writing a contemporary version of The Communist Manifesto, this conversation ranges across its central themes—theory and practice, labor and leisure, domination and freedom—in a register found nowhere else in their work. Amid a careening flux of arguments, aphorisms and asides, in which the trenchant alternates with the reckless, positions are swapped and contradictions unheeded resulting in a thrilling example of philosophy in action and a compelling map of a possible passage to a new world.