02985nam 22005415 450 991100748700332120250529130254.03-031-91413-910.1007/978-3-031-91413-3(CKB)39124451000041(DE-He213)978-3-031-91413-3(MiAaPQ)EBC32140546(Au-PeEL)EBL32140546(EXLCZ)993912445100004120250529d2025 u| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierCritical Theory and Symbolic Thinking /by Gintautas Mažeikis1st ed. 2025.Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2025.1 online resource (VII, 270 p.) 3-031-91412-0 1. Introduction -- 2. The Pathos and the Aura -- 3. Iconology and Critical Theory -- 4. Negative Dialectics: The Doors to Indefinite Futures -- 5. Symbolical Figures -- 6. Spontaneity and Mediation: Philosophical Drama and Diplomacy -- 7. Politics and Diplomacy of Symbolic Organizations.This book interprets axial cultural symbols, specific cultural symbolic organizations, and symbolic constellations in the context of Critical Theory and its negative dialectic. It engages the origins, structures, weaknesses, and possibilities of symbolic thinking, and incorporates ideas from a range of thinkers, including Hegel, Nietzsche, Marx, Adorno, Horkheimer, and Benjamin, among others. The book charts a new way of looking at the role of philosophy in culture, and provides tools for a new insight in the history of the formation of the consciousness of symbolic thought within philosophy itself. Furthermore, it shows how practically useful symbolic thinking can become in the practices of philosophical diplomacy, the processes of communication, mutual understanding and the formation of contemporary political and cultural discourse. Gintautas Mažeikis is philosopher, professor, the head of the Center of Social and Political Critique at Vytautas Magnus University, in Kaunas, Lithuania. He is also a public media commentator and public activist.Critical theoryPolitical sciencePhilosophyLiteraturePhilosophyCritical TheoryPolitical PhilosophyPhilosophy of LiteratureCritical theory.Political sciencePhilosophy.LiteraturePhilosophy.Critical Theory.Political Philosophy.Philosophy of Literature.142Mažeikis Gintautasauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1821891MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9911007487003321Critical Theory and Symbolic Thinking4387832UNINA