Adorno's 'Minima Moralia' in the 21st Century

Fascism, Work and Ecology

Adorno's 'Minima Moralia' in the 21st Century
Caren Irr, Caren Irr
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Adorno's 'Minima Moralia' in the 21st Century

Fascism, Work and Ecology

"This interdisciplinary volume revisits Adorno's lesser-known work, Minima Moralia, and makes the case for its application to the most urgent concerns of the 21st century. Contributing authors situate Adorno at the heart of contemporary debates on the ecological crisis, the changing nature of work, the idea of utopia, and the rise of fascism. Exploring the role of critical pedagogy in shaping responses to fascistic regimes, alongside discussions of extractive economies and the need for leisure under increasingly precarious working conditions, this volume makes new connections between Minima Moralia and critical theory today. Another line of focus is the aphoristic style of Minima Moralia and its connection to Adorno's wider commitment to small and minor literary forms, which enable capitalist critique to be both subversive and poetic. This critique is further located in Adorno's discussion of a utopia that is reliant on complete rejection of the totalising system of capitalism. The distinctive feature of such a utopia for Adorno is dependent upon individual suffering and subsequent survival, an argument this book connects to the mutually constitutive relationship between ecological destruction and right-wing authoritarianism. These timely readings of Adorno's Minima Moralia teach us to adapt through our survival, and to pursue a utopia based on his central ideas. In the process, opening up theoretical spaces and collapsing the physical borders between us in the spirit of Adorno's lifelong project"

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Adorno's 'Minima Moralia' in the 21st Century: Fascism, Work, and Ecology
2023, Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
in English
Cover of: Adorno's 'Minima Moralia' in the 21st Century
Adorno's 'Minima Moralia' in the 21st Century: Fascism, Work and Ecology
2021, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
in English

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B3199.A33 A37 2021eb

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160

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OL34776876M
ISBN 13
9781350198838
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1263250846
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10.5040/9781350198869

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