Böcker av Werner Bonefeld

While Adorno has tended to be read as a critic of the administered world and the consumer industry rather than a Marxist, Adorno and Marx establishes Adorno's negative dialectics as fundamental for understanding Marx's critique of political economy. This conception of the critique of political economy as a critical theory marks both a radical departure from traditional Marxist scholarship and from traditional readings of Adorno's work and warns against identifying Adorno with Marx or Marx with Adorno. Rather, it highlights the intersection between Adorno's critical theory and Marx's critique of political economy that produces a critical theory of economic objectivity that moves beyond Marxian economics and Adornonian social theory. Adorno and Marx offers an ingenious account of critical social theory. Its subversion of the economic categories of political economy contributes to the cutting-edge of contemporary social theory and its critique of social practice.

This book explores a variety of themes central to contemporary Marxist thought and its development as a critical social theory, advancing a focus on social rather than economic categories and identifying the unrest of life and class struggle as characteristic of capitalist society, to be resolved in the communist society of human purposes.

Against the background of growing uncertainty about the future development of capitalism and in the face of war, terror and poverty this book asks: what do we have to know to prevent misery? What can can we do to achieve conditions of human diginity? And what must we hope for?

An investigation into the theoretical foundations of ordoliberal thought and its historical and theoretical contexts.