Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy
The most comprehensive account of the historical development of Adorno’s concept of economy and his critique of political economy.
About the book
Adorno’s critique of political economy is the central thesis of this study, which aims to depict the shape, goals and course of the development of Adorno’s thought. Braunstein digs deep into Adorno’s lecture notes, his personal correspondence and other unpublished works to situate Adorno’s thought within the historical critique of political economy. This book shows how Adorno arrives at a concept of economy, which refers to the relationship between nature and society on the one hand and the relationship of society to itself on the other.
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Contents
- Attempting a Critique of Political Economy
- Part I The Most Important Marxist Publication on Hegel
- Objection to the Intérieur and the Sociology of Interiority
- Familiarity with Its First Chapter
- Part II The Theoretically Useless Concept of State Capitalism
- Hatched a National-Economic(!!) Theory
- Humanity Had to Inflict Terrible Injuries on Itself
- Garbage
- The Curse of Writing Today
- Part III Did He Read Marx?
- Eating and Being Eaten
- Point of Indifference
- Something’s Missing
- Raison d’être
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
- Afterword to the Second Edition