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TOWARDS A NEW MANIFESTO
By THEODOR ADORNO and MAX HORKHEIMER
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“A philosophical jam-session.” NEW LEFT REVIEW
http://newleftreview.org/?view=2860
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A thrilling example of philosophy in action, TOWARDS A NEW MANIFESTO reveals the fathers of critical theory, Adorno and Horkheimer, in a uniquely spirited and free-flowing exchange of ideas.
A record of their discussions over three weeks in the spring of 1956, recorded with a view to writing a contemporary version of THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO, this conversation ranges across its central themes – theory and practice, labor and leisure, domination and freedom – in a register found nowhere else in their work. Amid a careening flux of arguments, aphorisms and asides, in which the trenchant alternates with the reckless, positions are swapped and contradictions unheeded resulting in a thrilling example of philosophy in action and a compelling map of a possible passage to a new world.
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Praise for DIALECTIC OF ENLIGHTENMENT:
“A classic of twentieth-century thought.” TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
“A sustained and serious critique of Western civilization.” TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION SUPPLEMENT
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THEODOR ADORNO was a sociologist, philosopher and musicologist. MAX HORKHEIMER was a philosopher and sociologist. They were both key early members of the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research and together wrote the classic DIALECTIC OF ENLIGHTENMENT.
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ISBN: 978 1 84467 819 8 / $14.95/£9.99/$18.50CAN / Hardback / 128 pages
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