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Title

Towards a new manifesto / Theodor Adorno & Max Horkheimer ; translated by Rodney Livingstone.

Author

Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969

Publication

London : Verso Books, 2011.

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Additional Authors

• Horkheimer, Max, 1895-1973
• Horkheimer, Max, 1895-1973.
• Livingstone, Rodney

Description

x, 112 p.; 16 cm.

Summary

"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"--Back cover.

Subject

• Philosophy, German > 20th century
• Communism and philosophy

Note

• Originally published under the title "Diskussion über Theorie und Praxis", an appendix to vol. 13 of Max Horkheimer, Gesammelte Schriften, Nachgelassene Schriften 1949-1972.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. The role of theory --- 2. Work, spare time and freedom--I --- 3. Work spare time and freedom--II --- 4. The idea of mankind --- 5. The false abolition of work -- 6. Political concreteness --- 7. Critique of argument --- 8. The concept of practice --- 9. No utopianism --- 10. The antinomy of the political --- 11. Individualism --- 12. The historical change in the relationship between statics and dynamics.

ISBN

• 9781844678198
• 1844678199

OCLC

• 711052057
• SCSB-12120937

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library