{"id":4206,"date":"2025-01-08T15:15:39","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T15:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adornostudies.org\/?p=4206"},"modified":"2025-01-08T15:15:39","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T15:15:39","slug":"new-book-mikko-immanen-adornos-gamble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adornostudies.org\/?p=4206","title":{"rendered":"New Book: Mikko Immanen. Adorno’s Gamble"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Mikko Immanen’s new book, Adorno’s Gamble<\/em>, will be published with Cornell University Press on February 15th 2025. Click here<\/a> to access the book from the publisher’s website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Adorno’s Gamble\u00a0<\/em>offers a startling reinterpretation of the evolution of Theodor W. Adorno’s thought, usually seen as a mix of critical Marxism, Freudian psychoanalysis, aesthetic modernism, and Jewish tradition. Mikko Immanen argues for another, previously unacknowledged source of Adorno’s thinking on instrumental reason, dialectic of enlightenment, and frailty of democracy: the intellectual underpinnings of Germany’s “conservative revolutionary” movement of the 1920s. In a dramatic reappraisal of the leading light of the Frankfurt School, Immanen follows Adorno’s path of philosophical development from the late Weimar era through years in exile to the postwar period, establishing his debt to thinkers of radical conservative bent. In particular, he focuses on Adorno’s enduring, and daring, effort to harness two of the most infamous works from this tradition\u2014Oswald Spengler’s\u00a0Decline of the West<\/em>\u00a0and Ludwig Klages’s\u00a0The<\/em>\u00a0Spirit as Adversary of the Soul\u2014<\/em>and to repurpose their reactionary teachings for emancipatory ends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mikko Immanen’s new book, Adorno’s Gamble, will be published with Cornell University Press on February 15th 2025. Click here to …<\/p>\n

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