{"product_id":"adornos-minima-moralia-in-the-21st-century-9781350198937","title":"Adornos Minima Moralia in the 21st Century","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis interdisciplinary volume revisits Adorno's lesser-known work, \u003ci\u003eMinima Moralia\u003c\/i\u003e, and makes the case for its application to the most urgent concerns of the 21st century. Contributing authors situate Adorno at the heart of contemporary debates on the ecological crisis, the changing nature of work, the idea of utopia, and the rise of fascism.   Exploring the role of critical pedagogy in shaping responses to fascistic regimes, alongside discussions of extractive economies and the need for leisure under increasingly precarious working conditions, this volume makes new connections between \u003ci\u003eMinima Moralia\u003c\/i\u003e and critical theory today. Another line of focus is the aphoristic style of \u003ci\u003eMinima Moralia\u003c\/i\u003e and its connection to Adorno's wider commitment to small and minor literary forms, which enable capitalist critique to be both subversive and poetic. This critique is further located in Adorno's discussion of a utopia that is reliant on complete rejection of the totalising system \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis compelling collection on Adorno’s aphoristic masterwork snaps it into contemporary focus with a range of essays addressing ‘damaged life’ in the present, from the resurgence of fascism in politics to the colonisation of life by work and the escalation of ecological violence. Adorno, it turns out, has been waiting for us in the twenty-first century. * Nicholas Lawrence, University of Warwick, UK *\u003cbr\u003eMinima Moralia is the exquisite entrée into Adorno’s thought: intense aphorisms that quietly juxtapose and interweave autobiographical reflection, miniatures of sociological critique, and philosophical analysis.  The essays in Filar and Irr’s volume are the perfect companion for contemporary readers, pointedly focusing on the bond between the textures of ordinary life and fascism; animality, racism, and anthropocentrism; aphorisms as artwork-like modes of writing that resist the calls instrumental reason and capitalist exchange; and Adorno’s “reflections from damaged life” as the agonized adumbration of life in the Anthropocene.  Together these essays reveal Adorno as a challenging and urgent contemporary. * Jay Bernstein, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, New School for Social Research, USA *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword by Peter E. Gordon \u003ci\u003e(Harvard University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e 1.     An Adorno for the 21st Century:  Introduction Caren Irr and and Diana Filar (Brandeis University, USA)   \u003cb\u003ePart I              Thought After Fascism\u003c\/b\u003e   2.     \u003ci\u003eMinima Moralia\u003c\/i\u003e and the Contradictions of Post-War Pedagogy Jakob Norberg (\u003ci\u003eDuke University, USA\u003c\/i\u003e)   3.     Breathtaking Leaps,” or from Doorknobs to Fascism Oshrat C. Silberbusch (author of \u003ci\u003eAdorno’s Philosophy of the Nonidentical) \u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cb\u003ePart II             The Effects of the Aphorism\u003c\/b\u003e   4.     Gesture, Survival, Utopia: Adorno's Senses of Critique  S.D. Chrostowska (\u003ci\u003eYork University, Canada\u003c\/i\u003e)   5.     Negative Dialectics, Negative Events: Aphoristic Knowledge as Melancholy Historicism in Theodor Adorno’s \u003ci\u003eMinima Moralia\u003c\/i\u003e Wyatt Sarafin (\u003ci\u003eHarvard University, USA\u003c\/i\u003e)   \u003cb\u003ePart III           A Labor Theory of the Present\u003c\/b\u003e   6.     “The Whole of Life Must Look Like a Job”: \u003ci\u003eMinima Moralia\u003c\/i\u003e, Utopian Idleness, and the Capitalocene Clint Williamson (\u003ci\u003eUniversity of Pennsylvania, USA\u003c\/i\u003e)   7.     Self-Preservation, Self-Destruction Caleb Shaoning Fridell (\u003ci\u003eCUNY, USA\u003c\/i\u003e)    \u003cb\u003ePart IV           Adorno’s Ecology\u003c\/b\u003e   8.     Adorno and Animality After Auschwitz Andrea Dara Cooper (\u003ci\u003eUniversity of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA\u003c\/i\u003e)   9.     Living with Damage:  Adorno in the Anthropocene Caren Irr (\u003ci\u003eBrandeis University, USA\u003c\/i\u003e)  Bibliography   Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019637096791,"sku":"9781350198937","price":28.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350198937.jpg?v=1750780865","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/adornos-minima-moralia-in-the-21st-century-9781350198937","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}