Towards a New ManifestoA 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. |
Contents
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2 Work Spare Time and FreedomI | 19 |
3 Work Spare Time and FreedomII | 31 |
4 The Idea of Mankind | 45 |
5 The False Abolition of Work | 51 |
6 Political Concreteness | 59 |
7 Critique of Argument | 67 |
8 The Concept of Practice | 75 |
9 No Utopianism | 83 |
10 The Antinomy of the Political | 99 |
11 Individualism | 111 |
12 The Historical Change in the Relationship Between Statics and Dynamics | 113 |
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