Posts tagged ‘Theodor W. Adorno’
Truly Liberating
by Ben Watson / 2013
Kevin B. Anderson and Russell Rockwell, eds, The Dunayevskaya-Marcuse-Fromm Correspondence, 1954-1978: Dialogues on Hegel, Marx and Critical Theory, Lexington Books, Lanham MD and Plymouth, 2012, 269 pp., £49.95 hb., £21.95 pb., 978 0 73916 835 6 hb, 978 0 73916 836 3 pb. Raya Dunayevskaya died in 1987 aged 77, but her ideas remain alive [...]
Can One Lead a Good Life in a Bad Life?
Adorno Prize Lecture
by Judith Butler / RP 176 (Nov/Dec 2012)
I am most honoured to be here on this occasion to receive the Adorno Prize.* I would like this evening to talk to you about a question that Adorno posed, one that is still alive for us today. It is a question to which I return time and again, one that continues to make itself [...]
Elementary
by David Cunningham / 2012
Ben Watson, Adorno for Revolutionaries, Unkant, London, 2011. 217 pp., £10.99 pb., 978 0 95681 760 0. David Cunningham In a much-cited March 1936 letter to Walter Benjamin, Adorno famously remarks of the separation between autonomous art and mass culture that, while both ‘bear the stigmata of capitalism’, and ‘both contain elements of change’, they [...]
167 Reviews
by Howard Caygill, Keith Ansell-Pearson, Howard Feather, Caroline Edwards, William E. Scheuerman, Thomas Klikauer, Harriet Evans and Mark Neocleous / RP 167 (May/Jun 2011)
‘Never a fascist’? Maurice Blanchot, Political Writings, 1953–1993, translated with an introduction by Zakir Paul, foreword by Kevin Hart, Fordham University Press, New York, 2010. 200 pp. Howard Caygill It is perhaps appropriate that this collection of political writings by Maurice Blanchot is marked by a troubling absence. Yet it is hard to join the editor [...]
143 Reviews
by Ben Watson, Kaye Mitchell, Sas Mays, Sean Sayers and Jesse Cohn / RP 143 (May/Jun 2007)
Theodor W. Adorno, Current of Music: Elements of a Radio Theory Ben Watson Sara Ahmed, Queer Phenomenology Kaye Mitchell Jason Powell, Jacques Derrida: A Biography Sas Mays Alasdair MacIntyre, The Tasks of Philosophy, Selected Essays Volume 1 Alasdair MacIntyre, Ethics and Politics: Selected Essays Volume 2 Sean Sayers Benedict Anderson, Under Three Flags: Anarchism and [...]
Doing something and doing nothing
Dossier: documenta 12 magazines project – What is to be done? (education), with an introduction by Peter Osborne
by Esther Leslie / RP 141 (Jan/Feb 2007)
Mirrors without images
Mimesis and recognition in Lacan and Adorno
by Vladimir Safatle / RP 139 (Sep/Oct 2006)
Nihilism and faith
Rose, Bernstein and the future of Critical Theory
by Tony Gorman / RP 134 (Nov/Dec 2005)
NOISETHEORYNOISE#1, Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Middlesex University, 6 March 2004
by Ben Watson / RP 125 (May/Jun 2004)
New German aesthetic theory
Martin Seel’s art of diremption
by Austin Harrington / RP 109 (Sep/Oct 2001)
Childhood experience and the image of utopia
The broken promise of Adorno’s Proustian sublimations
by Matt F. Connell / RP 099 (Jan/Feb 2000)
Truly Liberating
by Ben Watson / 2013Kevin B. Anderson and Russell Rockwell, eds, The Dunayevskaya-Marcuse-Fromm Correspondence, 1954-1978: Dialogues on Hegel, Marx and Critical Theory, Lexington Books, Lanham MD and Plymouth, 2012, 269 pp., £49.95 hb., £21.95 pb., 978 0 73916 835 6 hb, 978 0 73916 836 3 pb. Raya Dunayevskaya died in 1987 aged 77, but her ideas remain alive [...]
Can One Lead a Good Life in a Bad Life?
Adorno Prize Lecture
by Judith Butler / RP 176 (Nov/Dec 2012)
I am most honoured to be here on this occasion to receive the Adorno Prize.* I would like this evening to talk to you about a question that Adorno posed, one that is still alive for us today. It is a question to which I return time and again, one that continues to make itself [...]
Elementary
by David Cunningham / 2012Ben Watson, Adorno for Revolutionaries, Unkant, London, 2011. 217 pp., £10.99 pb., 978 0 95681 760 0. David Cunningham In a much-cited March 1936 letter to Walter Benjamin, Adorno famously remarks of the separation between autonomous art and mass culture that, while both ‘bear the stigmata of capitalism’, and ‘both contain elements of change’, they [...]
167 Reviews
by Howard Caygill, Keith Ansell-Pearson, Howard Feather, Caroline Edwards, William E. Scheuerman, Thomas Klikauer, Harriet Evans and Mark Neocleous / RP 167 (May/Jun 2011)‘Never a fascist’? Maurice Blanchot, Political Writings, 1953–1993, translated with an introduction by Zakir Paul, foreword by Kevin Hart, Fordham University Press, New York, 2010. 200 pp. Howard Caygill It is perhaps appropriate that this collection of political writings by Maurice Blanchot is marked by a troubling absence. Yet it is hard to join the editor [...]
143 Reviews
by Ben Watson, Kaye Mitchell, Sas Mays, Sean Sayers and Jesse Cohn / RP 143 (May/Jun 2007)Theodor W. Adorno, Current of Music: Elements of a Radio Theory Ben Watson Sara Ahmed, Queer Phenomenology Kaye Mitchell Jason Powell, Jacques Derrida: A Biography Sas Mays Alasdair MacIntyre, The Tasks of Philosophy, Selected Essays Volume 1 Alasdair MacIntyre, Ethics and Politics: Selected Essays Volume 2 Sean Sayers Benedict Anderson, Under Three Flags: Anarchism and [...]
Doing something and doing nothing
Dossier: documenta 12 magazines project – What is to be done? (education), with an introduction by Peter Osborne
by Esther Leslie / RP 141 (Jan/Feb 2007)
Mirrors without images
Mimesis and recognition in Lacan and Adorno
by Vladimir Safatle / RP 139 (Sep/Oct 2006)
Nihilism and faith
Rose, Bernstein and the future of Critical Theory
by Tony Gorman / RP 134 (Nov/Dec 2005)
NOISETHEORYNOISE#1, Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Middlesex University, 6 March 2004
by Ben Watson / RP 125 (May/Jun 2004)
New German aesthetic theory
Martin Seel’s art of diremption
by Austin Harrington / RP 109 (Sep/Oct 2001)
Childhood experience and the image of utopia
The broken promise of Adorno’s Proustian sublimations
by Matt F. Connell / RP 099 (Jan/Feb 2000)
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