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    Theodor Adorno: Key Concepts (edited book)
    Acumen Publishing. 2008.
    Adorno continues to have an impact on disciplines as diverse as philosophy, sociology, psychology, cultural studies, musicology and literary theory. An uncompromising critic, even as Adorno contests many of the premises of the philosophical tradition, he also reinvigorates that tradition in his concerted attempt to stem or to reverse potentially catastrophic tendencies in the West. This book serves as a guide through the intricate labyrinth of Adorno's work. Expert contributors make Adorno acces…Read more
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    Theodor W. Adorno and Jürgen Habermas both champion the goal of a rational society. However, they differ significantly about what this society should look like and how best to achieve it. Exploring the premises shared by both critical theorists, along with their profound disagreements about social conditions today, this book defends Adorno against Habermas' influential criticisms of his account of Western society and prospects for achieving reasonable conditions of human life. The book begins wi…Read more
  • Tradition and Critique
    Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 1992 (94): 30-36. 1992.
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    In one of his many metaphorical turns of phrase – a leitmotif in The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity — Jürgen Habermas speaks of the path not taken by modern philosophers, a path that might have led them towards his own intersubjective notion of communicative reason. Habermas is especially critical of his predecessors, Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer, because, he believes, they repudiated the rational potential in the culture of modernity. Whenever Adorno and Horkheimer heard the word …Read more
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    The turn towards subjectivity-Foucault, Michel legacy
    Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 18 (3): 215-225. 1987.
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    Thought Thinking Itself
    Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 38 (3): 229-247. 2007.
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    Nietzsche, Foucault, Tragedy
    Philosophy and Literature 13 (1): 140-150. 1989.
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    The paper begins by comparing Adorno’s and Foucault’s accounts of the normalizing practices that socialize individuals, integrating them into Western societies. In this context, I argue that the animus against socialism can be read as an expression of profound anxiety about the existing socialization of reproduction in the West. In fact, Adorno and Foucault contend that really existing socialization has contained our political imagination to the point where even our ideas about alternatives only…Read more
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    Habermas on reason and revolution
    Continental Philosophy Review 34 (3): 321-338. 2001.
    Identifying self-empowerment as the normative core of the liberal democratic project, Habermas proceeds to dilute the revolutionary character of that project. After describing Habermas' views about legitimation problems in the West, the author examines critically Habermas' claim that democratic practices of self-empowerment must be self-limiting, arguing that under some circumstances (which cannot be specified in advance), more radical forms of self-empowerment may be justified. The author also …Read more
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    Adorno’s critical materialism
    Philosophy and Social Criticism 32 (6): 719-737. 2006.
    The article explores the character of Adorno’s materialism while fleshing out his Marxist-inspired idea of natural history. Adorno offers a non-reductionist and non-dualistic account of the relationship between matter and mind, human history and natural history. Emerging from nature and remaining tied to it, the human mind is nonetheless qualitatively distinct from nature owing to its limited independence from it. Yet, just as human history is always also natural history, because human beings ca…Read more
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    Adorno and Habermas on the Human Condition
    Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 33 (3): 236-259. 2002.
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    Adorno on mass societies
    Journal of Social Philosophy 32 (1). 2001.
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    Adorno, ideology and ideology critique
    Philosophy and Social Criticism 27 (1): 1-20. 2001.
    Throughout his work, Adorno contrasted liberal ideology to the newer and more pernicious form of ideology found in positivism. The paper explores the philosophical basis for Adorno's contrast between liberal and positivist ideology. In Negative Dialectics, Adorno describes all ideology as identity-thinking. However, on his view, liberal ideology represents a more rational form of identity-thinking. Fearing that positivism might obliterate our capacity to distinguish between what is and what ough…Read more
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    Adorno, Foucault and critique
    Philosophy and Social Criticism 39 (10): 0191453713507016. 2013.
    Adorno and Foucault are among the 20th century’s most renowned social critics but little work has been done to compare their ideas about the activity of critique. ‘Adorno, Foucault and Critique’ attempts to fill this lacuna. It takes as its starting point the Kantian legacy that informs Adorno’s and Foucault’s notions of critique, or their ‘ontologies of the present’, as Foucault calls them. Exploring the ontological foundations of critique, the article then addresses the principal objects of cr…Read more
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    Through a Glass Darkly: Adorno's Inverse Theology
    Adorno Studies 1 (1): 66-78. 2017.
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    Foucault, Freud, and the Repessive Hypothesis
    Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 45 (2): 148-161. 2014.
    One aspect of Foucault's thought brings him much closer to Freud than many commentators believe. This Freudian “moment” in Foucault is formulated in the following dictum: the soul is the prison of the body. For Foucault, the modern soul is formed when the norms that govern disciplinary training and exercise are internalized. Once internalized, these norms affect our self-understanding and conduct. This paper focuses on Foucault's account of internalization. It shows that this Freudian moment in …Read more
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    Adorno on Nature
    Routledge. 2011.
    Decades before the environmental movement emerged in the 1960s, Adorno condemned our destructive and self-destructive relationship to the natural world, warning of the catastrophe that may result if we continue to treat nature as an object that exists exclusively for our own benefit. "Adorno on Nature" presents the first detailed examination of the pivotal role of the idea of natural history in Adorno's work. A comparison of Adorno's concerns with those of key ecological theorists - social ecolo…Read more
  • Peter Bürger, The Decline of Modernism (review)
    Philosophy in Review 13 288-290. 1993.
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    Hans-Robert Jauss and the exemplarity of art
    British Journal of Aesthetics 27 (3): 259-267. 1987.
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    The sundered totality: Adorno's freudo-marxism
    Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 25 (2). 1995.
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    Notes on Individuation in Adorno and Foucault
    Philosophy Today 58 (3): 325-344. 2014.
    The social construction of the individual is a central theme in critical social theory. Theodor W. Adorno and Michel Foucault address this theme throughout their work, offering important insights into individual identity and autonomy in the West. For Adorno, of course, individuation can be fully understood only with the aid of Freudian theory. However, since Foucault often criticized psychoanalysis, the paper will begin by comparing Adorno’s and Foucault’s positions on Freud’s theories of instin…Read more
  • The two faces of liberal democracy in habermas
    Philosophy Today 45 (1): 95-104. 2001.
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    Individualism: The Cultural Logic of Modernity (edited book)
    with Nancy Armstrong, James Cruise, Lisa Eck, Megan Heffernan, David Jenemann, Nigel Joseph, Tom McCall, Lucy McNeece, JoAnne Myers, Julie Orlemanski, Jonathon Penny, Dale Shin, Vivasvan Soni, Frederick Turner, and Philip Weinstein
    Lexington Books. 2011.
    Individualism: The Cultural Logic of Modernity is an edited collection of sixteen essays on the idea of the modern sovereign individual in the western cultural tradition. Reconsidering the eighteenth-century realist novel, twentieth-century modernism, and underappreciated topics on individualism and literature, this volume provocatively revises and enriches our understanding of individualism as the generative premise of modernity itself
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    Nature, red in tooth and claw
    Continental Philosophy Review 40 (1): 49-72. 2007.
    “Nature, Red in Tooth and Claw” explores Adorno’s ideas about our mediated relationship with nature. The first section of the paper examines the epistemological significance of his thesis about the preponderance of the object while describing the Kantian features in his notion of mediation. Adorno’s conception of nature will also be examined in the context of a review of J. M. Bernstein’s and Fredric Jameson’s attempts to characterize it. The second section of the paper deals with Adorno’s Freud…Read more