Reading Adorno

Part 1. Diagnosis.- 1. Two Critiques of Identity: Adorno and Castoriadis on the Capitalist Imaginary; Craig Browne.- 2. Adorno, De Martino and the Adventures of the Self; Stefano Petrucciani.- 3. The Truth-Potential (Wahrheitsgehalt) of the Culture Industry: On the Actuality of Horkheimer and Adorno's diagnosis; Hauke Brunkhorst.- 4. Laughing at the Other: Toward an Understanding of the Alt-Right with Adorno; Claudia Leeb.- 5. Bella Swan and Katniss Everdeen: The Expectation of Motherhood in the Culture Industry; Laci Hubbard-Mattix.- Part 2. Remedy.- 6. The Sensible and the Intelligible: Artistic Form and Testimony in Adorno's Reflections; Giuseppe Di Giacomo.- 7. Adorno and the Subversive Potential of Popular Music; Hans-Herbert Kögler.- 8. Adorno and the Magic Square: Schönberg and Stravinsky in Mann's Doctor Faustus; Geoff Boucher.- 9. 'Idiot with a Spoon': Adorno, Petrini, and the Oppositional Politics of Slow Food; Mary Caputi.- 10. Functionalism Yesterday, Functionalism Tomorrow: Thoughts Inspired by Adorno's Address to the Deutscher Werkbund, "Funktionalismus Heute," Delivered in Berlin on October 3, 1965; Barry M. Katz.

Amirhosein Khandizaji holds a PhD in Sociology, Free University of Berlin, Germany, and is the Founding Editor of the Berlin Journal of Critical Theory.