{"id":391,"date":"2017-02-01T14:52:25","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T14:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adornostudies.org\/?p=391"},"modified":"2017-02-01T14:52:54","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T14:52:54","slug":"new-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adornostudies.org\/?p=391","title":{"rendered":"New book: Negativity and Democracy: Marxism and the Critical Theory Tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.adornostudies.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/9781138886469.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-392\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.adornostudies.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/9781138886469.jpg?resize=282%2C425&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.adornostudies.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/9781138886469.jpg?w=282&amp;ssl=1 282w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.adornostudies.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/9781138886469.jpg?resize=199%2C300&amp;ssl=1 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/independent.academia.edu\/VasiliosGrollios\">Vasilis Grollios<\/a> has written to us asking us to announce the publication of his new book,<em>\u00a0Negativity and Democracy:\u00a0Marxism and the Critical Theory Tradition<\/em> (Routledge, 2017). He has also informed us that if you order directly from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Negativity-and-Democracy-Marxism-and-the-Critical-Theory-Tradition\/Grollios\/p\/book\/9781138886469\">Routledge<\/a>, you can use code\u00a0FLR40 to get a 20% discount.\u00a0Here is the publisher&#8217;s blurb for what looks to be a timely book:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The current political climate of uncompromising neoliberalism and its social effects means that the need to study the logic of our culture \u2013 that is, the logic of the capitalist system \u2013 is compelling. This book explores the practical relevance of these notions for a contemporary democratic theory. Grollios offers a unique overview of the key concepts of totality, negativity, fetishization, contradiction, mystification, identity thinking, dialectics and corporeal materialism as they have been employed by the major thinkers of the critical theory tradition \u2013 Marx, Engels, Horkheimer, Lukacs, Adorno, Marcuse, E. Bloch and J. Holloway.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vasilis Grollios has written to us asking us to announce the publication of his new book,\u00a0Negativity and Democracy:\u00a0Marxism and the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adornostudies.org\/?p=391\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,65,43],"tags":[75,116,31,115],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-critical-theory","category-frankfurt-school","category-publications","tag-critical-theory","tag-democracy","tag-marxism","tag-vasilis-grollios"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adornostudies.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adornostudies.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adornostudies.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adornostudies.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adornostudies.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.adornostudies.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":394,"href":"https:\/\/www.adornostudies.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions\/394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adornostudies.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adornostudies.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adornostudies.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}