Late Adorno and After and Us:
Exchange, Abstraction, Identity, and the
Objective Appearance of Society

2020

A look at the problem and players

• Bonefeld, "Negative Dialectics and the Critique of Economic Objectivity"
  
• Bellofiore & Riva, "The Neue Marx-Lektüre"

Adorno's mature critical theory of society

• Adorno, "Sociology and Empirical Research"
• Adorno, "'Static' and 'Dynamic' as Sociological Categories"
  
• Adorno, "Marx and the Basic Concepts of Sociological Theory" Supplement: O'Kane, "Introduction to 'Theodor W. Adorno on Marx and the Basic Concepts of Sociological Theory'"
• Adorno, "Society"
• Adorno, "Late Capitalism or Industrial Society?" Supplement: alternate translation under the title "Is Marx Obsolete?"
• Adorno, excerpts from the Introduction to The Positivist Dispute in German Sociology

Some of Adorno's co-thinkers

• Schmidt, The Concept of Nature in Marx
• Sohn-Rethel, "The Formal Characteristics of Second Nature" Supplement: Sohn-Rethel, Intellectual and Manual Labor, Part I
• Adorno, "Aspects of Hegel's Philosophy"

Adorno's Negative Dialectics and epilegomena

• Adorno, Negative Dialectics Introduction, Thorne & Menda translation
• Adorno, Negative Dialectics, Ashton translation
• Adorno, Negative Dialectics, Redmond translation
• Adorno, "Progress"
• Adorno, "On Subject and Object"
• Adorno, "Marginalia to Theory and Praxis"

New readings and inheritors

• Schmidt, History and Strcuture
• Krahl, "The Philosophy of History and the Authoritarian State"
• Bahr, "The Class Structure of Machinery"
• Postone, "Necessity, Labor, and Time"
• Backhaus, "Between Philosophy and Science"
• Reichelt, "Marx's Critique of Economic Categories"
• Bellofiore, "The Adventures of Vergesellschaftung"
• Arzuaga, "Socially Necessary Superfluity"
• Bonefeld, Critical Theory and the Critique of Political Economy
• Stoetzler, "Needless Necessity"
• Stoetzler, "Adorno, Non-Identity, Sexuality"
• Lotz, The Capitalist Schema

 

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