In the Spirit of Critique: Thinking Politically in the Dialectical Tradition

Index

INDEX 165 Adorno, Theodor W., 2, 7, 9, 37, 42, 113, 146n17; Aesthetic Theory, 150–151n57, 152–153n87; Against Epistemology, 79; American exile, 67–68, 145n16; reading of Benjamin , 145n11; affinities with C. L. R. James, 87, 160n49; on conceptuality, 70, 80–81, 147n27, 147n32; on the critical imagination, 115–116; Critical Models, 74, 77–78, 88, 89, 146n16, 149n37; “Democratic Leadership and Mass Manipulation,” 89; on democratic leadership, 153n94; Dialectic of Enlightenment, 77; on dialectical method, 79; on dialectical totality, 71–73, 82, 147n31, 151n66; “Education for Maturity and Responsibility,” 89; on ethics, 122n23, 163–164n2; Kierkegaard: Construction of the Aesthetic, 145n8; “Late Capitalism or Industrial Society,” 71, 73–74; Lectures on Negative Dialectics, 88, 151n60, 151n62; on Marxism, 68–71, 75, 77; Metaphysics: Concepts and Problems, 148n33; Minima Moralia, 7, 12, 64–65, 66, 74, 76, 85–87, 88–89, 116, 122n17, 148n35, 150n57; Negative Dialectics, 67, 69, 70, 73–74, 79–80, 86–88, 146n15, 149n41, 150–151n57, 152n70, 160n49; on nonliteral language (exaggeration, hyperbole), 65–66, 72, 148–149nn33–37; Notes to Literature, 148n35; Philosophy of New Music, 72; on politics, 13, 87–89, 117, 145n10, 153nn90–91; on postdialectical philosophy, 152n70; Prisms, 145n11; Quasi una Fantasia, 86, 148–149n36; “Sociology and Empirical Research,” 65–66, 151n66; on suffering, 12, 67, 146n15; use of theological motifs (redemption, transcendence), 10–11, 64–65, 74–78, 83–84, 85–86, 144– 154nn7–8, 149n41, 150–151n57, 152–153n87; as un-Hegelian thinker, 150n49 Aeschylus, 95, 107, 162n64 affect, 8, 68, 73, 98, 100–101, 111, 121n13, 133n89 agency, 12–13, 95, 107–109, 115, 141– 142n52, 142n57. See also humanism Algerian War, 47, 54, 140n44 alienation, 18, 67, 91–92, 133n82. See also estrangement Alleyne, Brian W., 160n52 Althusser, Louis, 106, 162nn61–62 Ameriks, Karl, 126n18 amor fati, 36, 40, 134n97. See also Nietzsche, Friedrich Anderson, Amanda, 121n13 Anderson, Thomas, 139n19, 143n69 Aristotle, 7, 95, 107–108, 111, 162n65, 162n68 Aron, Raymond, 142n55 Aronson, Ronald, 137–138n11, 142n56 Arthur, Paige, 56, 136–137n4, 141n48, 141n52, 143nn68–69 autonomy, in Adorno, 65, 67, 89; as humanist ideal in James, 106, 114– 115; as independent political action, 104, 109, 161n53; as practical ideal in Hegel, 21–26; struggle for, 3–5, 10–11, 13, 18, 29–30, 32, 41, 89. See also freedom 166 INDEX Barnes, Hazel, 122n22, 138n12 Benjamin, Walter, 63–65, 67, 71, 77, 144n3, 123n32; “Left-Wing Melancholy ,” 13; “Theses on the Philosophy of History,” 63, 74 Bernstein, J. M., 81, 146n17, 147n27 black liberation struggle, 96 Bloch, Ernst, 81 Boggs, Grace Lee, 96, 155n14, 160n52, 162n64 Bogues, Anthony, 154n8 Bottomore, T. B., 96 Bourg, Julian, 122n19 Bowman, Elizabeth, 61, 139n19, 144n71 Breckman, Warren, 124n6 Brown, Wendy, 123n24, 123n32 Bryce, James, 97 Buchanan, Ian, 163–164n2 Buck-Morss, Susan, 144n3 Buhle, Paul, 154n8, 157n33, 158n40, 160n49 Butler, Judith, 92, 127n25, 129n49, 142n57 Cambridge, Alrick, 162n61 capitalism, 58, 71, 97, 147n32, 161n54, 163–164n2 Castoriadis, Cornelius, 12, 93, 111 Catalano, Joseph S., 136–137n4, 137n10, 141n49 Césaire, Aimé, 56, 99–100, 154n7, 157n33 Chalybaeus, H. M., 119n5 Christianity, 120n8. See also theology Ciccariello-Maher, George, 141n52 class struggle, 8–9, 11, 18, 25, 126n19, 129n43, 130–131n57, 160n52 Cleaver, Harry, 160n52 Cohen-Solal, Annie, 136–137n4 Coles, Romand, 152n72 collective action, in postpolitical times, 1, 88, 115–117; in Sartre, 45–46, 61, 139n20; and seriality in Sartre, 52, 54–56, 141nn48–49; and struggle for autonomy, 3, 10–11, 13, 25, 29, 32, 41, 92 colonialism, 8; and Césaire, 99; and Hector, 157n33; impact on James, 12, 96, 108–109, and liberation struggle, 93, impact on Sartre, 11, 45–47, 54–57, 92, 105, 136–137n4, 140n44, 141n48, 141nn51–52, 142n57, 163n70. See also decolonization ; neocolonialism comedy, and dialectical reconciliation, 19–23, 38, 47, 111, 131n60, 132– 133n77, 155n11; in Hegel, 26–29, 126nn23–24, 129–130nn49–50, 131n61; in Marx, 94, 130nn53–54; as mode of narrative emplotment, 9–10, 15, 130n51; and conventional reception of the dialectical tradition, 31–32, 40–41, 95, 126n24. See also romance; tragedy communism, 96, 125–126n17, 138n14, 160–161n52 contradiction, in Adorno, 150n49, 152n70; and the dialectical tradition, 5; in Derrida, 85; and dialectical logic , 22, 33–36, 40, 131n60, 133n88, 133–134n90; experience of, 4, 13, 25, 26, 79–82, 87; as impetus toward political action, 6, 103–105, 112; in Marx, 16, 18–19, 125n13, 125n17, 129–130n50, 130n54, 155n11 Coole, Diana, 36, 119n2, 127n25, 127n27 Coombes, Sam, 136–137n4 critical theory, 2, 8, 37...