Adorno and Marx: Negative Dialectics and the Critique of Political Economy (Critical Theory and the Critique of Society)

"While Adorno has tended to be read as a critic of the administered world and the consumer industry rather than a Marxist, Adorno and Marx e stablishes Adorno's negative dialectics as fundamental for understanding Marx's critique of political economy. This conception of the critique of political economy as a critical theory marks both a radical departure from traditional Marxist scholarship and from traditional readings of Adorno's work and warns against identifying Adorno with Marx or Marx with Adorno. Rather, it highlights the intersection between Adorno's critical theory and Marx's critique of political economy that produces a critical theory of economic objectivity that moves beyond Marxian economics and Adornonian social theory. Written by an international team of leading thinkers in Marxism and Critical Theory, Adorno and Marx combines both breadth and depth of analysis to address the central topics for engaging with the global political economy, as well as the cutting-edge of critical social theory and practice."-- Provided by publisher Contents Listof Contributors 1 Adorno and Marx: Negative dialectics and the critique of political economy • Werner Bonefeld and Chris O’Kane Part 1: Adorno and the New Reading of Marx 2 Cracking economic abstractions: Bringing critical theory back-in • Werner Bonefeld 3 Adorno and the critique of political economy • Nico Bobka and Dirk Braunstein 4 Adorno, the New Reading of Marx, and methodologies of critique • Charlotte Baumann 5 Marxian economics and the critique of political economy • Chris O’Kane and Kirstin Munro Part 2: Critique of Political Economy as a Negative Dialectic of Society 6 Economic objectivity and negative dialectics: On class andstruggle Werner Bonefeld 7 The liquidation of the individual as a critique of political economy • Fabian Arzuaga 8 Society as real abstraction: Adorno’s critique of economic nature • Charles Andrew Prusik 9 ‘Society reproduces itself despite the catastrophes that may eventuate’: Critical theory, negative totality, and permanent catastrophe • Chris O’Kane Part 3: Subjectivity and Pseudo Practice: On Social Praxis 10 Conceptuality and social practice • Werner Bonefeld 11 Non-identity, critique of labour and pseudo-praxis: Extra-marginal palinlegomena on the dialectics of doing • Marcel Stoetzler Appendix 12 Introduction to ‘Theodor W. Adorno on Marx and the basic concepts of sociological theory’ From a seminar transcript in the summer semester of 1962 • Chris O’Kane 13 Theodor W. Adorno on ‘Marx and the basic concepts of sociological theory’: From a seminar transcript in the summer semester of 1962 Index While Adorno has tended to be read as a critic of the administered world and the consumer industry rather than a Marxist, Adorno and Marx establishes Adorno's negative dialectics as fundamental for understanding Marx's critique of political economy. This conception of the critique of political economy as a critical theory marks both a radical departure from traditional Marxist scholarship and from traditional readings of Adorno's work and warns against identifying Adorno with Marx or Marx with Adorno. Rather, it highlights the intersection between Adorno's critical theory and Marx's critique of political economy that produces a critical theory of economic objectivity that moves beyond Marxian economics and Adornonian social theory. Adorno and Marx offers an ingenious account of critical social theory. Its subversion of the economic categories of political economy contributes to the cutting-edge of contemporary social theory and its critique of social practice. While Adorno has tended to be read as a critic of the administered world and the consumer industry rather than a Marxist, Adorno and Marx e stablishes Adorno's negative dialectics as fundamental for understanding Marx's critique of political economy. This conception of the critique of political economy as a critical theory marks both a radical departure from traditional Marxist scholarship and from traditional readings of Adorno's work and warns against identifying Adorno with Marx or Marx with Adorno. Rather, it highlights the intersection between Adorno's critical theory and Marx's critique of political economy that produces a critical theory of economic objectivity that moves beyond Marxian economics and Adornonian social theory. Adorno and Marx offers an ingenious account of critical social theory. Its subversion of the economic categories of political economy contributes to the cutting-edge of contemporary social theory and its critique of social practice.