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    Towards a New Manifesto

    By Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer

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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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
    Release dateOct 24, 2011
    ISBN9781844678945
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    Theodor Adorno

    Theodor Adorno was director of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Frankfurt from 1959 until his death in 1969. His works include In Search of Wagner; Aesthetic Theory; Negative Dialectics; and (with Max Horkheimer) Dialectic of Enlightenment and Towards a New Manifesto.

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      A transcription of a series of conversations between Horkheimer and Adorno in 1956, riffing on the dialectical relationship between theory and practice in the wake of the failure of communism and the rise of fascism.