Vicious circles : disclosing a history of critique /

"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...

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Main Author: Särkelä, Arvi (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2026]
Series:Cultural memory in the present.
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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.