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Adorno and democracy : the American years /

In Adorno and Democracy, Shannon L. Mariotti explores how philosopher Theodor Adorno's fifteen years in the United States prompted a concern for and commitment to democracy that shaped the rest of his oeuvre. She analyzes the extensive and undervalued works Adorno composed in English for an Ame...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Mariotti, Shannon L. (Shannon Lee) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: The University Press of Kentucky, 2016.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Another Adorno
  • Seeing the large-scale system: the pathologies of modern America and pseudo-democracy
  • Experience as a precondition for meaningful democracy: sensory perception, affect, and materialism
  • Critique and the practice of democracy: negative dialectics, autonomy, and compassion
  • Democratic leadership: egalitarian guidance and a plan for empowering the people
  • Democratic pedagogy: resistance and an alternative model for civic education
  • Seeing small-scale resistance: turning countertendencies into vaccines to strengthen democratic practice
  • Adorno and a postcapitalist politics.