Contents

List of Contributors

1    Adorno and Marx: Negative dialectics and the critique of political economy Werner Bonefeld and Chris O’Kane

Part 1 Adorno and the New Reading of Marx

2    Cracking economic abstractions: Bringing critical theory back-in Werner Bonefeld

3    Adorno and the critique of political economy Nico Bobka and Dirk Braunstein

4    Adorno, the New Reading of Marx, and methodologies of critique Charlotte Baumann

5    Marxian economics and the critique of political economy Chris O’Kane and Kirstin Munro

Part 2 Critique of Political Economy as a Negative Dialectic of Society

6    Economic objectivity and negative dialectics: On class and struggle Werner Bonefeld

7    The liquidation of the individual as a critique of political economy Fabian Arzuaga

8    Society as real abstraction: Adorno’s critique of economic nature Charles Andrew Prusik

9    ‘Society reproduces itself despite the catastrophes that may eventuate’: Critical theory, negative totality, and permanent catastrophe Chris O’Kane

Part 3 Subjectivity and Pseudo Practice: On Social Praxis

10  Conceptuality and social practice Werner Bonefeld

11  Non-identity, critique of labour and pseudo-praxis: Extra-marginal palinlegomena on the dialectics of doing Marcel Stoetzler

Appendix

12  Introduction to ‘Theodor W. Adorno on Marx and the basic concepts of sociological theory’ From a seminar transcript in the summer semester of 1962 Chris O’Kane

13  Theodor W. Adorno on ‘Marx and the basic concepts of sociological theory’ From a seminar transcript in the summer semester of 1962

Index