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Book SynopsisAdorno and the Concept of Genocide examines the legacy of Critical Theory’s foremost authority on life ‘after Auschwitz.’ As a leading member of the Frankfurt School and one of post-war Europe’s most important public intellectuals, Adorno’s reflections on genocide and its relation to contemporary society achieved a level of urgency and insight that remains unparalleled to this day. Assembled here for the first time in English is a wide-ranging collection of essays on the seminal significance of the concept of genocide for Adorno’s thought, as well as the enduring relevance of that thought for our own time. Contributors include: Babette Babich, Ryan Crawford, Tom Huhn, Osman Nemli, Ulrich Plass, Erik M. Vogt, James R. Watson, Markus Zöchmeister
Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION BABETTE BABICH Adorno’s “The Answer is False”: Archaeologies of Genocide MARKUS ZÖCHMEISTER Shoah, Critique and the Real: Reading Adorno with Freud and Lacan ERIK M. VOGT The “Useless Residue of the Western Idea of Art”: Adorno and Lacoue-Labarthe Concerning Art “After” Auschwitz OSMAN NEMLI Adorno, History “After Auschwitz” RYAN CRAWFORD Words and Organs TOM HUHN Adorno and the Big Chill: The Cold Intimacy of Genocide and Culture Industry ULRICH PLASS Expropriated Death: Alienation and Nullification in Adorno’s Minima Moralia JAMES R. WATSON Negligible Quantities in the Wrong State of Things Matter
