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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Stanford, California :
Stanford University Press,
[2026]
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| 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.