{"id":780,"date":"2020-08-19T14:24:51","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T14:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adornostudies.org\/?p=780"},"modified":"2020-08-19T14:24:51","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T14:24:51","slug":"new-book-adorno-and-neoliberalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adornostudies.org\/?p=780","title":{"rendered":"New Book: Adorno and Neoliberalism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/villanova.academia.edu\/CharlesPrusik\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Charles Prusik<\/a> wrote to us announcing the publication of his new book, <em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/us\/adorno-and-neoliberalism-9781350103245\/\" target=\"_blank\">Adorno and Neoliberalism: The Critique of Exchange Society<\/a>, <\/em>published by Bloomsbury in August of 2020. The foreword is written by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uwindsor.ca\/philosophy\/312\/dr-deborah-cook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Deborah Cook<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here is the publisher&#8217;s blurb:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The first book to investigate the relevance of Theodor W. Adorno&#8217;s work for theorizing the age of neoliberal capitalism. Through an engagement with Adorno&#8217;s critical theory of society, Charles Prusik advances a novel approach to understanding the origins and development of neoliberalism. Offering a corrective to critics who define neoliberalism as an economic or political doctrine, Prusik argues that Adorno&#8217;s dialectical theory of society can provide the basis for explaining the illusions and forms of domination that structure contemporary life.\u00a0<\/p><p>Prusik explains the importance of Marx&#8217;s critique of commodity fetishism in shaping Adorno&#8217;s work and focuses on the related concepts of exchange, ideology, and natural history as powerful tools for grasping the present. Through an engagement with the ideas of neoliberal economic theory,\u00a0<em>Adorno and Neoliberalism<\/em>\u00a0criticizes the naturalization of capitalist institutions, social relations, ideology, and cultural forms. Revealing its origins in the crises of the Fordist period, Prusik develops Adorno&#8217;s analyses of class, exploitation, monopoly, and reification to situate neoliberal policies as belonging to the fundamental antagonisms of capitalist society.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Prusik wrote to us announcing the publication of his new book, Adorno and Neoliberalism: The Critique of Exchange Society, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adornostudies.org\/?p=780\">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":false,"_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":[43,16],"tags":[174,63,175],"class_list":["post-780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications","category-theodor-w-adorno","tag-late-capitalism","tag-neoliberalism","tag-political-philosophy"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adornostudies.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780","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=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.adornostudies.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":781,"href":"https:\/\/www.adornostudies.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions\/781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adornostudies.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adornostudies.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adornostudies.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}