{"product_id":"adorno","title":"Adorno","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis interdisciplinary volume revisits Adorno’s lesser-known work, \u003ci\u003eMinima Moralia\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eMinima Moralia\u003c\/i\u003e and critical theory today. Another line of focus is the aphoristic style of \u003ci\u003eMinima Moralia\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e These timely readings of Adorno’s \u003ci\u003eMinima Moralia\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57232663839102,"sku":"NW9781350198937","price":32.15,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781350198937.jpg?v=1778597645","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/adorno","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}