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  title info:
    title: Vicious circles
    sub title: disclosing a history of critique
  name:
    name part: Särkelä, Arvi
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2026
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xviii, 302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: "From Emerson to Adorno, a tradition of radical social critique has flourished that utilize methods which disclose rather than judge life's form: instead of trying to say what is wrong and what would be better, these criticisms seek to show how the world is false and to reveal how we might escape the vicious circles of present society - pointing out its catastrophic state and directing readers to the real possibilities for another form of life. This book presents an incisive history of disclosing critique of society. It reconstructs methods of critical disclosure by telling the story of a metaphor of society, "vicious circle," and a metaphor for disclosure "drawing a circle around the circle." As Särkelä illuminates, these two metaphors continually interact in the works of 19th and 20th century European and American authors including not just Emerson and Adorno, but also Nietzsche, Tarde, Freud, and Dewey. By reconstructing the driving examples of such disclosing critical gestures, Särkelä articulates their similarities and differences, and considers their potential for contemporary social critique. The result points the way toward the cultivation of critical skills relevant for our own age of catastrophe"-- Provided by publisher.
  table of contents: A circle around a circle: introducing a metaphorology of critical disclosure -- Recalcitrance to second nature: Lovibond on counterteleology -- Drawing a vicious circle: Adorno, Emerson, and the scene of a disclosing critique of society -- "The realm of transfigured physis disclosed": the young Nietzsche as a (meta)physician of culture -- Society as experience: adaptation and exemplarity in Adorno and Dewey -- Civilization and its uncanniness: Freud's sense of guilt -- Making phantasies in the wrong world: Dewey, Tarde, and the idea of a critical cosmology -- Reason and recalcitrance: conclusions without closure.
  note: Arvi Särkelä.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Criticism (Philosophy)
  subject:
    topic: Critical theory
  subject:
    topic: Metaphor
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Criticisme
  subject:
    topic: Théorie critique
  subject:
    topic: Métaphore
    topic: Philosophie
  subject:
    topic: critical theory (sociological concept)
  classification: B809.3 .S25 2026
  classification: 142
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    origin info:
      publisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2026
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 251119
    record change date: 20260330144822.4
    record identifier: in00005777633
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng