Adorno's Critique of the New Right-Wing Extremism: How (Not) to Face the Past, Present, and Future.
This paper serves three purposes relating to a lecture Adorno gave in 1967 on "the new right-wing extremism" that was on the rise then in West Germany; in 2019, the lecture was published in print for the first time in German, to wide acclaim, followed by an English translation that appeared in 2020....
| Publicado en: | disClosure Vol. 29; pp. 129 - 180 |
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Committee on Social Theory
2020
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