Adorno and Marx

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    Abstract

    This essay reconstructs the place of Marx‘s thought within Adorno‘s writings from his 1931 inaugural lecture to his famous 1962 seminar on Marx. It focuses on three areas: the critique and transformation of philosophy; the sociology of the commodification of art; and the social ontology of the objectivity of illusions, derived from the critique of political economy. Adorno, it argues, ended his academic life significantly more of a Marxist than he had entered it, leaving a legacy that was distinctive both for its dialectical appropriation of Marx‘s critique - and suspended supersession - of philosophy and for its philosophical interpretation of Marx‘s critique of political economy.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationA companion to Adorno
    EditorsPeter E. Gordon, Espen Hammer, Max Pensky
    Place of PublicationOxford, U.K.
    PublisherBlackwell
    Pages303-319
    ISBN (Print)9781119146919
    Publication statusPublished - 2020

    Publication series

    NameBlackwell Companions to Philosophy
    PublisherBlackwell

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