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Adorno's Critique of Political Economy

Adorno's Critique of Political Economy

Historical Materialism

by Dirk Braunstein

Translated by Adam Baltner

Published by: Haymarket Books

Imprint: Haymarket Books

420 Pages, 6.00 x 9.00 in

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9781642599923
Published: November 2023

$35.00

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A major intervention into the place of Marxist political economy in the work of celebrated critical theorist Theodor Adorno.

To this day, there persists a widespread assumption that Theodor Adorno's references to Marx—and especially to Marx's critique of political economy—represent a relic from an early and short-lived stage of the great Frankfurt School critical theorist's intellectual development. In this book, on the basis of relevant and largely unpublished textual sources, Adorno scholar Dirk Braunstein powerfully refutes this thesis and shows that Adorno's critical theory of society is centrally concerned with a critique not only of political economy, but of economy in general.

Front Matter
Preliminary Material
Pages: i–x
Copyright Page
Translator’s Note
Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 Attempting a Critique of Political Economy
Pages: 1–6

Part 1
Chapter 2 The Most Important Marxist Publication on Hegel
Pages: 9–29
Chapter 3 Objection to the Intérieur and the Sociology of Interiority
Pages: 30–70
Chapter 4 Familiarity with Its First Chapter
Pages: 71–105
Part 2
Chapter 5 The Theoretically Useless Concept of State Capitalism
Pages: 109–137
Chapter 6 Hatched a National-Economic (!!) Theory
Pages: 138–157
Chapter 7 Humanity Had to Inflict Terrible Injuries on Itself
Pages: 158–193
Chapter 8 Garbage
Pages: 194–219
Chapter 9 The Curse of Writing Today
Pages: 220–236
Part 3
Chapter 10 ?? Did He Read Marx?
Pages: 239–256
Chapter 11 Eating and Being Eaten
Pages: 257–292
Chapter 12 Point of Indifference
Pages: 293–318
Chapter 13 Something’s Missing
Pages: 319–349
Chapter 14 Raison d’être
Pages: 350–353
Back Matter
Bibliography
Afterword to the Second Edition
Pages: 399–400
Index

Dirk Braunstein is research fellow at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt, Germany. He has published several books, articles and editions on Adorno, recently Die Frankfurter Seminare Theodor W. Adornos. Gesammelte Sitzungsprotokolle 1949–1969 [The Frankfurt Seminars of Theodor W. Adorno. Collected Minutes of Meetings 1949–1969]. 4 Volumes. Berlin und Boston: de Gruyter (2021)