Forever Resistant? Adorno and Radical Transformation of Society

Cooke, Maeve

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“…The Invisible Committee's manifesto reminds us of his worry that activism without a critically reflective theoretical commitment ends up reproducing, indeed even reinforcing, the oppressive system it seeks to overcome. But Adorno's stance is itself problematic, leading easily to resignation (Cooke, 2020b). In response to the third challenge, therefore, contemporary critical theory must investigate modes of activism that acknowledge the theory's powers of (non-authoritarian) ethical orientation and guidance.…”

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Social theory as critical theory: Horkheimer's program and its relevance today

Cooke

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“…This leaves no room for critical interrogation of the theory's analyses of what is wrong with existing social and political reality and of its (usually tacit) projections of a better alternative. Adorno offers a trenchant critique of this action‐fixation (see Cooke, 2020b, pp. 585–591).…”

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2023

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Adorno’s Politics Revisited

Freyenhagen

2024

The Oxford Handbook of Adorno

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Ever since the West German student movement came into conflict with T. W. Adorno in the 1960s, the question of whether his theory and praxis were in some sort of problematic relationship has not gone away. In this chapter, the author partially defends Adorno’s views on theory and (political) praxis, focusing particularly on the 1960s. It is a defense because the author will suggest that, in significant respects, Adorno’s theory and practice were not in contradiction with each other but cohered well. Moreover, the author will suggest that we can learn from his stance how to think about and engage in politics—specifically from his contextualism and his emphasis on immersion in a local context. It is, however, merely a partial defense. The author identifies some tensions between Adorno’s theory and practical stance that have gone unnoticed so far, contrasting his stance to that of Marcuse, notably in relation to paying sufficient attention to interrelations between local contexts and the lack of an account of a global subject of change.

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Brothers in arms: Adorno and Foucault on resistance

Mascaretti

2023

Philosophy & Social Criticism

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This article offers a comparative exploration of the practices of resistance Theodor Adorno and Michel Foucault champion against the structures of modern power their enquiries have the merit to illuminate and contest. After a preliminary examination of their views about the relationship between theory and praxis, I shall pursue two goals: first, I shall illustrate the limitations of Adorno’s negativist portrait of an ethics of resistance and contrast it with Foucault’s more promising notion of resistance as strategic counter-conduct, which in his late ethico-political writings becomes the heart of a distinctive politics of the governed. Second, despite their dissimilarities, I shall argue that their ideas can be brought together to elaborate a ‘compounded’ account of resistance, where Adorno’s politics of suffering figures as the necessary pre-condition for the creative practices of freedom Foucault seeks to encourage.

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Forever Resistant? Adorno and Radical Transformation of Society

Cited by 5 publications

References 18 publications

Social theory as critical theory: Horkheimer's program and its relevance today

Social theory as critical theory: Horkheimer's program and its relevance today

Adorno’s Politics Revisited

Brothers in arms: Adorno and Foucault on resistance

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