Description
Book SynopsisAddresses several questions, ranging from dilemmas in feminist aesthetic theory to the politics of suffering and democratic theory. This volume introduces feminists to Adorno's work and Adorno scholars to modes of feminist critique. It is useful for senior undergraduate and graduate courses in contemporary political, social, and cultural theory.
Trade Review“The essays are uniformly excellent and show exciting possibilities for Adorno’s relevance to feminism.”
—Judith Grant,Ohio University
“The most successful of the fifteen essays in this volume use the insights of feminism to reread crucial Adornian works . . . to rethink critical terms within these works, such as mimesis, suffering, identity, and aesthetic autonomy. The variety of contributors—political theorists, philosophers, literary and legal scholars—ensures that the re-readings presented here are not monolithic.”
—Marianne Tettlebaum APA Newsletter
Table of ContentsContents
Preface by Nancy Tuana
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Feminism and Negative Dialectics
Renée Heberle
2. An Interview with Drucilla Cornell
Questions by Renée Heberle
3. Adorno’s Siren Song
Rebecca Comay
4. A Feminine Dialectic of Enlightenment? Horkheimer and Adorno Revisited
Andrew Hewitt
5. “No Happiness Without Fetishism”: Minima Moralia as Ars Amandi
Eva Geulen
6. The Bared-Breasts Incident
Lisa Yun Lee
7. Mimetic Moments: Adorno and Ecofeminism
D. Bruce Martin
8. Intersectional Sensibility and the Shudder
Sora Y. Han
9. An-aesthetic Theory: Adorno, Sexuality, and Memory
Mary Ann Franks
10. Living with Negative Dialectics: Feminism and the Politics of Suffering
Renée Heberle
11. Negative Dialectics and Inclusive Communication
Paul Apostolidis
12. Feminist Politics and the Culture Industry: Adorno’s Critique Revisited
Lambert Zuidervaart
13. Unfreedom, Suffering, and the Culture Industry: What Adorno Can Contribute to a Feminist Ethics
Jennifer L. Eagan
14. Unmarked and Unrehearsed: Theodor Adorno and the Performance Art of Cindy Sherman
Mary Caputi
15. The Economy of the Same: Identity, Equivalence, and Exploitation
Gillian Howie
Contributors
Selected Bibliography
Index
