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Adorno Foucault And The Critique Of The West
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Adorno, Foucault, and the Critique of the West argues that critical theory continues to offer valuable resources for critique and contestation during this turbulent period in our history. To assess these resources, it examines the work of two of the twentieth century's more prominent social
theorists: Theodor W. Adorno and Michel Foucault. Although Adorno was situated squarely in the Marxist tradition that Foucault would occasionally challenge, Cook demonstrates that their critiques of our current predicament are complementary in important respects. Among other things, they converge in their focus on the historical conditionseconomic in Adorno and political in Foucaultthat gave rise to the racist and authoritarian tendencies that continue to blight the West. But this book will also show that as Adorno and Foucault plumb the economic and political forces that have shaped our identities, they offer remarkably similar answers to the perennial question: What is to be done?
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Publisher : Verso Books
Publication date : 2019-01-01
Subjects: Non-fiction, Humanities, Social Sciences, History, Philosophy, Sociology, Social & Cultural History, Deconstructionism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism