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CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY NEW Aspects of the New Right-Wing Extremism THEODOR W. ADORNO Translated by Wieland Hoban ‘When Adorno speaks to us from beyond the grave on right-wing extremism, we should all listen.’ Cas Mudde, University of Georgia In a 1967 lecture, Adorno analyzed the goals, resources and tactics of the new right-wing nationalism of this time. Contrasting it with the ‘old’ fascism of the Nazis, Adorno gave particular attention to the ways in which far-right movements elicited enthusiastic support in sections of the West German population, twenty years after WW2. 190 x 124mm • 80 pages • UK April 2020, US June 2020 HB • 978-1-5095-4144-7 • £35.00 / $45.00 / €42.90 PB • 978-1-5095-4145-4 • £9.99 / $12.95 / €12.90 ebook available NEW Correspondence 1939–1969 THEODOR W. ADORNO & GERSHOM SCHOLEM Introduction by ASAF ANGERMANN Translated by Sebastian Truskolaski Theodor W. Adorno and Gerhard Scholem met in New York on the cusp of the twentieth century’s descent into the Holocaust, whose consequences and chaotic aftermath they would relentlessly submit to the analytic scrutiny borne of their prolific correspondence. 229 x 152mm • 420 pages • UK November 2020, US January 2021 HB • 978-1-5095-1045-0 • £35.00 / $45.00 / €42.90 ebook available NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK Dream Notes THEODOR W. ADORNO Translated by Rodney Livingstone ‘Dreams are as black as death.’ Theodor W. Adorno Theodor Adorno was one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. This remarkable and unusual book records his thoughts on his own dreams, and provides an amazingly frank and uninhibited account of his inner desires, guilt feelings and anxieties. 216 x 138mm • 128 pages • HB 2007, PB 2020 HB • 978-0-7456-3830-0 • £40.00 / $64.95 / €48.90 PB • 978-0-7456-3831-7 • £12.99 / $14.95 / €15.90 ebook available NEW Kracauer A Biography JÖRG SPÄTER University of Freiburg Translated by Daniel Steuer In this new book, Jörg Später provides the first comprehensive biography of Siegfried Kracauer. Based on extensive archival research, Später’s biography paints a vivid portrait of an extraordinary man driven both by an urge to capture reality and by a need to find his place in a hostile, threatening world. 229 x 152mm • 586 pages • UK July 2020, US September 2020 HB • 978-1-5095-3301-5 • £35.00 / $45.00 / €42.90 ebook available NEW Correspondence 1923–1966 THEODOR W. ADORNO & SIEGFRIED KRACAUER Translated by Susan Halstead Theodor W. Adorno and Siegfried Kracauer were two of the most influential philosophers and cultural critics of the twentieth century. This unique volume brings together for the first time their long-running correspondence. It will be of great value to anyone interested in critical theory and in twentieth-century intellectual and cultural history. 229 x 152mm • 450 pages • UK September 2020, US November 2020 HB • 978-0-7456-4923-8 • £35.00 / $45.00 / €42.90 ebook available Philosophical Elements of a Theory of Society 1964 THEODOR W. ADORNO Translated by Wieland Hoban ‘Against the alleged waning of Adorno’s radical commitments in his last years, these lectures of 1964 on the relationship between social theory and empirical research testify to his abiding Marxist loyalties. Exhorting his students to pierce the “technological veil” of their “administered world,” he insists on the power of class, reified consciousness, and the impoverishment of experience in the irrational totality of late capitalism.’ Martin Jay, University of California, Berkeley In these lectures, Adorno develops a critique of both sociology and philosophy, showing that theoretical work requires mediation between the two. Where sociology needs a philosophical approach to challenge a drive towards uniformity in empirical research, philosophy cannot fully describe our world without paying heed to sociological analysis. 229 x 152mm • 192 pages • 2019 HB • 978-0-7456-7947-1 • £55.00 / $69.95 / €67.90 PB • 978-0-7456-7948-8 • £17.99 / $24.95 / €23.90 ebook available See backlist for more Adorno titles. WWW.POLITYBOOKS.COM 26
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CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY Resonance A Sociology of Our Relationship to the World HARTMUT ROSA Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena Translated by James Wagner ‘If in the rush to increase production and wealth, we ever pause to consider what a good life would be like, and whether we’re missing something essential, Rosa’s book Resonance would be a good place to start. This remarkable work combines systematic theory with a host of valuable insights into human fulfillments that we too easily forgo.’ Charles Taylor, McGill University ‘Affirmation of ordinary life is a key feature of modernity, but alienation from the world is a persistent experience of modern men and women. In Resonance, Rosa offers sketches of an alternative relation to the world and thereby a foundation for a sociology of the good life. Very important text and highly recommended.’ Miroslav Volf, Yale University ‘Hartmut Rosa is one of the leading and most distinctive voices in contemporary social theory. In Resonance he continues the important analysis of the very nature of modernity laid out in Social Acceleration, and offers a new approach to basic human relationships, both to other people and to the world. This is a truly important book.’ Craig Calhoun, Arizona State University Modern life is speeding up, yet we do not seem any happier. If acceleration is the problem, then the solution, argues Hartmut Rosa in this major work, lies in ‘resonance’. Crossing the breadth of human life and activity, Rosa shows how all the great crises we face can be understood in terms of resonance and our broken relationship to the world. 229 x 152mm • 576 pages • 2019 HB • 978-1-5095-1989-7 • £30.00 / $45.00 / €36.90 ebook available The Idea of Socialism Towards a Renewal AXEL HONNETH University of Frankfurt and Columbia University Translated by Joseph Ganahl ‘Axel Honneth explores the contemporary meaning of the socialist ideal. Drawing on Hegel, Dewey, Marx, and the utopian socialist tradition, Honneth argues – with great power – that socialism is about harmonizing ideals of freedom and solidarity, creating institutions of social freedom that more fully realize the Enlightenment’s normative project. Creating that order will require socialists to think beyond economy and social class, to imagine a form of democratic society animated by an experimental spirit – a society that expands the scope of problem-solving through free communication among equals. I hope this important and illuminating book gets the wide readership it deserves.’ Joshua Cohen, Stanford University In this essay, Axel Honneth argues that socialism has lost its lustre because its theoretical assumptions are outdated. Only by replacing these with a concept of history and society relevant to current experience will we be able to restore confidence in a project which remains as relevant as ever – an economy that realizes freedom in solidarity. 216 x 138mm • 160 pages • 2016 HB • 978-1-5095-1212-6 • £50.00 / $64.95 / €61.90 PB • 978-1-5095-3137-0 • £12.99 / $14.95 / €15.90 ebook available Philosophical Introductions Five Approaches to Communicative Reason JÜRGEN HABERMAS Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt Translated by Ciaran Cronin This new book is a unique and comprehensive overview of Jürgen Habermas’ philosophy in his own words. Spanning the full range of his work, from the concept of communicative action to discourse ethics, political theory and religion in a secular age, it will be invaluable for students and scholars across the humanities and social sciences. 216 x 138mm • 240 pages • 2018 HB • 978-1-5095-0671-2 • £50.00 / $64.95 / €61.90 PB • 978-1-5095-0672-9 • £15.99 / $22.95 / €19.90 ebook available Postmetaphysical Thinking II Essays and Replies JÜRGEN HABERMAS Translated by Ciaran Cronin In this volume of previously unpublished material, Habermas continues his exploration of the postHegelian challenge posed to the position of philosophy by science and societal change, arguing that ‘postmetaphysical thinking’, based on the idea that philosophy does not have a privileged access to the truth, represents the only viable response. 229 x 152mm • 304 pages • 2017 HB • 978-0-7456-8214-3 • £55.00 / $69.95 / €67.90 PB • 978-0-7456-8215-0 • £17.99 / $24.95 / €23.90 ebook available The Lure of Technocracy JÜRGEN HABERMAS This volume reflects the impressive scope of Habermas’ recent writings on European themes, including theoretical treatments of the complex legal and political issues at stake, interventions on current affairs, and reflections on the lives and works of major European philosophers and intellectuals. 216 x 138mm • 192 pages • 2015 HB • 978-0-7456-8681-3 • £50.00 / $64.95 / €61.90 PB • 978-0-7456-8682-0 • £15.99 / $22.95 / €19.90 ebook available See backlist for more Habermas titles. WWW.POLITYBOOKS.COM 27

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CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY

NEW

Aspects of the New Right-Wing Extremism THEODOR W. ADORNO Translated by Wieland Hoban ‘When Adorno speaks to us from beyond the grave on right-wing extremism, we should all listen.’ Cas Mudde, University of Georgia In a 1967 lecture, Adorno analyzed the goals, resources and tactics of the new right-wing nationalism of this time. Contrasting it with the ‘old’ fascism of the Nazis, Adorno gave particular attention to the ways in which far-right movements elicited enthusiastic support in sections of the West German population, twenty years after WW2. 190 x 124mm • 80 pages • UK April 2020, US June 2020 HB • 978-1-5095-4144-7 • £35.00 / $45.00 / €42.90 PB • 978-1-5095-4145-4 • £9.99 / $12.95 / €12.90 ebook available

NEW

Correspondence 1939–1969 THEODOR W. ADORNO & GERSHOM SCHOLEM Introduction by ASAF ANGERMANN Translated by Sebastian Truskolaski Theodor W. Adorno and Gerhard Scholem met in New York on the cusp of the twentieth century’s descent into the Holocaust, whose consequences and chaotic aftermath they would relentlessly submit to the analytic scrutiny borne of their prolific correspondence. 229 x 152mm • 420 pages • UK November 2020, US January 2021 HB • 978-1-5095-1045-0 • £35.00 / $45.00 / €42.90 ebook available

NOW AVAILABLE

IN PAPERBACK

Dream Notes THEODOR W. ADORNO Translated by Rodney Livingstone ‘Dreams are as black as death.’ Theodor W. Adorno Theodor Adorno was one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. This remarkable and unusual book records his thoughts on his own dreams, and provides an amazingly frank and uninhibited account of his inner desires, guilt feelings and anxieties. 216 x 138mm • 128 pages • HB 2007, PB 2020 HB • 978-0-7456-3830-0 • £40.00 / $64.95 / €48.90 PB • 978-0-7456-3831-7 • £12.99 / $14.95 / €15.90 ebook available

NEW

Kracauer A Biography JÖRG SPÄTER University of Freiburg Translated by Daniel Steuer In this new book, Jörg Später provides the first comprehensive biography of Siegfried Kracauer. Based on extensive archival research, Später’s biography paints a vivid portrait of an extraordinary man driven both by an urge to capture reality and by a need to find his place in a hostile, threatening world. 229 x 152mm • 586 pages • UK July 2020, US September 2020 HB • 978-1-5095-3301-5 • £35.00 / $45.00 / €42.90 ebook available

NEW

Correspondence 1923–1966 THEODOR W. ADORNO & SIEGFRIED KRACAUER Translated by Susan Halstead Theodor W. Adorno and Siegfried Kracauer were two of the most influential philosophers and cultural critics of the twentieth century. This unique volume brings together for the first time their long-running correspondence. It will be of great value to anyone interested in critical theory and in twentieth-century intellectual and cultural history. 229 x 152mm • 450 pages • UK September 2020, US November 2020 HB • 978-0-7456-4923-8 • £35.00 / $45.00 / €42.90 ebook available

Philosophical Elements of a Theory of Society 1964 THEODOR W. ADORNO Translated by Wieland Hoban ‘Against the alleged waning of Adorno’s radical commitments in his last years, these lectures of 1964 on the relationship between social theory and empirical research testify to his abiding Marxist loyalties. Exhorting his students to pierce the “technological veil” of their “administered world,” he insists on the power of class, reified consciousness, and the impoverishment of experience in the irrational totality of late capitalism.’ Martin Jay, University of California, Berkeley In these lectures, Adorno develops a critique of both sociology and philosophy, showing that theoretical work requires mediation between the two. Where sociology needs a philosophical approach to challenge a drive towards uniformity in empirical research, philosophy cannot fully describe our world without paying heed to sociological analysis. 229 x 152mm • 192 pages • 2019 HB • 978-0-7456-7947-1 • £55.00 / $69.95 / €67.90 PB • 978-0-7456-7948-8 • £17.99 / $24.95 / €23.90 ebook available

See backlist for more Adorno titles.

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