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Author Lanning, Robert D

Title In the Hotel Abyss : an Hegelian-Marxist Critique of Adorno
Published Leiden : Brill, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 223 pages)
Series Studies in Critical Social Sciences
Studies in critical social sciences.
Contents In the Hotel Abyss; Copyright; Contents; 1Introduction; Background and Context; The Orientation of the Present Study; Theory and Practice; The Management of Politics and Personal Relations; The Socio-Historical Context; 2Hegel, Marx, Dialectics; The Individual; Being and Self-consciousness; Becoming; Contradiction; A Note on Dialectical Logic; Mediation; 3Aspects of Adorno's Method: Constellations and Images; Adorno's Bilderverbot and the Negation of Messianism; 4Jazz, Radio and the Masses; The Masses and the Culture Industries; The Jazz Essays; Marx, Music and Relative Autonomy
Black Influence and Historical Materialist AnalysisRadio; 5The Masses and Pro-Fascist Propaganda; Pro-Fascism and the Masses; Irrationalism as the Basis of Analysis; The Approach of Others to Antifascism; 6Mediation; Hegelian Mediation; 7Negative Dialectics, Identity and Exchange; Negative Thought; The Positive Moment in Dialectics; Identity and Identity Thinking; Concept and Identity; Exchange; 8Conclusion; References; Index
Summary This book is an analysis of a selection of Adorno's work distinguishing his dialectics from Hegel, Marx and other members of the Frankfurt School (Benjamin, Kracauer, Marcuse) in the analysis of jazz, popular music, radio and pre-war pro-fascist propaganda
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969.
Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.
SUBJECT Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969 fast
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831 fast
Marx, Karl, 1818-1883 fast
Subject Methodology.
Dialectic.
Critical theory.
methodology.
dialectic.
critical theories (dialectical critiques)
critical theory (sociological concept)
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
Critical theory
Dialectic
Methodology
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9004248994
9789004248991