Vasilis Grollios

Illusion and Fetishism in Critical Theory (eBook, ePUB)

A study of Nietzsche, Benjamin, Castoriadis and the Situationists

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Through the negative dialectics of Theodore Adorno, Illusion and Fetishism in Critical Theory offers an examination of Nietzsche, Benjamin, Castoriadis and the Situationists, who put the concept of illusion at the forefront of their philosophical thought.

Vasilis Grollios argues that these political philosophers, except Castoriadis, have up to now been wrongly considered by many scholars to be far from the line of thinking of negative dialectics, Critical Theory and the early Frankfurt School/Open Marxist tradition. He illustrates how these thinkers focused on the illusions of capitalism and attempted to show how capitalism, by its innate rationale, creates social forms that are presented as unavoidable and universal, yet are historically specific and of dubious sustainability.

Providing a unique overview of concepts including illusion, totality, fetishization, contradiction, identity thinking and dialectics, Grollios expertly reveals how their understanding of critique can help us open cracks in capitalism and radicalize democratic social practice today. Illusion and Fetishism in Critical Theory is a must read for scholars of political theory and political philosophy, critical theory, the Frankfurt School, sociology and democratic theory.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781003814177
• Artikelnr.: 69227379

Autorenporträt

Vasilis Grollios holds a Ph.D. in political philosophy from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, where he has taken all his degrees (B.A., M.A. in the history of philosophy and Ph.D.). He was a holder of a postdoctoral fellowship with the Greek Institute of Research and Technology. He has taught at various Greek universities and conducted postdoctoral research at the University of York, UK. Grollios is the author of Negativity and Democracy. Marxism and the Critical Theory Tradition (Routledge 2017) and has been published in academic journals such as Constellations, Critical Sociology and Philosophy and Social Criticism.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction 1.Alienation, Illusion, Fetishism and Non-Identity
Thinking in Nietzsche's Critical Theory 2. Negativity and Illusion in
Walter Benjamin's Dialectics 3.Cornelius Castoriadis's Social Imaginary,
Socialism and Autonomy Reconsidered. A Critical Theory Reading 4. Debunking
the Illusions of the Spectacle Through Negative Dialectics. How the Open
Marxism of the Situationists Cracks Capitalism