These outspoken intellectuals seek to reclaim "people" as an effective political concept by revisiting its uses and abuses over time. Alain Badiou surveys the idea of a people as a productive force of solidarity and emancipation and a negative tool of categorization and suppression. Pierre Bourdieu follows with a sociolinguistic analysis of "popular" and its transformation of democracy, beliefs, songs, and even soups into phenomena with outsized importance....

Durante la redacción de la Dialéctica negativa, su gran obra teórica, Adorno dedicó buena parte de su tarea docente a discutir las problemáticas del libro cuya elaboración le tomó siete años. Estas clases son el reflejo de un profundo diálogo crítico que el autor establece con la tradición alemana, Kant y Hegel, en torno a la filosofía de la historia y a la posibilidad de la libertad humana. A estas dos clásicas preguntas de la mayor...

Don't Ever Want To Lose Out On Achieving Super Success In Life on Account of Your Not Possessing The Ability To Think Critically and Relying More on a Deceptive Brain? Then Read On. Are you one of those people who find it difficult to make critical conversations that would take you ahead in life and help you fare better at facing situations in life? Do you feel that your life would change considerably for the better if you could make your brain stop...

Timothy Morton argues that ecological awareness in the present Anthropocene era takes the form of a strange loop or Möbius strip, twisted to have only one side. Deckard travels this Oedipal path in Blade Runner (1982) when he learns that he might be the enemy he has been ordered to pursue. Ecological awareness has this form because ecological phenomena have a loop form that is also fundamental to the structure of how things are. The logistics of...

First published in 1997, Alain Badiou's Deleuze: The Clamor of Being cast the thinker as a secret philosopher of the One, compromising Deleuze's standing among political philosophers concerned with the practical and historical aspects of existence. Clayton Crockett rehabilitates Deleuze's position within contemporary, cutting-edge political and philosophical thought, advancing an original reading of the thinker's major works and a constructive conception...

Posthumous Life launches critical life studies: a mode of inquiry that neither endorses nor dismisses a wave of recent "turns" toward life, matter, vitality, inhumanity, animality, and the real. Following on from a questioning of the nature and limits of life in the natural sciences, essays in this volume question the limits and significance of the human and the humanites in the wake of various redefinitions of what counts as life. They explore the...

Herbert Marcuse worked for the US secret service from 1942 to 1951 to actively participate in the fight against the Nazi system. He made analyzes of the psychological and ideological constitution of the authoritarian German collective. He wanted to understand and fight the enemies from whose midst he himself had emerged and, after victory, help to reintegrate them into civilization. Marcuse shows how the technological rationality and the pragmatism...

The first philosophers of the Frankfurt School famously turned to the psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud to supplement their Marxist analyses of ideological subjectification. Since the collapse of their proposed marriage of Marx and Freud," psychology and social theory have grown increasingly apart to the impoverishment of both. Returning to this unholy union, Benjamin Y. Fong reconstructs the psychoanalytic foundation stone" of critical theory...

La presente obra es el segundo volumen de Crítica de la cultura y sociedad, cuyo primer volumen ha sido publicado dentro de esta misma colección Obras completas de Adorno. El lector encontrará una traducción cuidada de una de las más representativas del filósofo, en la que expone su concepción acerca del pensamiento y la crítica filósoficos de la cultura y la sociedad de su época.

Why is capitalism so resilient? Despite creating vast inequalities and propping up reactionary world regimes, capitalism has many passionate defenders. But Todd McGowan argues that capitalism does not thrive because of what it withholds from some and gives to others with power. Capitalism dominates because it mimics the structure of our desire while hiding the trauma that the system inflicts upon it. People from all backgrounds enjoy what capitalism...