LEADER 03376nam 22006493 450 001 9910554492903321 005 20230109053110.0 010 $a1-4875-4146-5 010 $a1-4875-4145-7 024 7 $a10.3138/9781487541453 035 $a(CKB)4100000011994368 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6688366 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6688366 035 $a(OCoLC)1263024477 035 $a(DE-B1597)600701 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781487541453 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_109035 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011994368 100 $a20210901d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAdorno, Politics, and the Aesthetic Animal 210 1$aToronto :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2021. 210 4$dİ2021. 215 $a1 online resource (216 pages) 311 $a1-4875-4144-9 327 $aThe Perils of Dialectic -- Variations on a Theme: Humanity and Progress -- Relatively Modest Horrors: Adorno and Animals -- The Politics of an Aesthetic Animal. 330 $a"Built upon the principle that divides and elevates humans above other animals, humanism is the cornerstone of a worldview that sanctifies inequality and threatens all animal life. Adorno, Politics, and the Aesthetic Animal analyses this state of affairs and suggests an alternative--a way for humanity to make itself into a new kind of animal. Theodor W. Adorno has been accused of leading critical theory into a blind alley, divorced from practical social and political concerns. In Adorno, Politics, and the Aesthetic Animal, Caleb J. Basnett argues that by placing the problem of the human/animal distinction at the centre of Adorno's thought, we discover a new Adorno, one whose critique of domination is in dialogue with classic concerns of political thought forged by Aristotle, including questions of humanist political education and the role of art. Through a close reading of primary sources, Basnett identifies the principal conceptual structure entwined with the understanding of human life as antagonistic to other animals, and outlines how forms of aesthetic experience disrupt this problematic concept in favour of a reconceptualization of what we call human. His analysis displaces the centrality of the human and attempts to open up a space for its transformation, both in terms of how humans relate to each other and in how humans relate to other animals."--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aHuman-animal relationships$xPhilosophy 606 $aHumanism 606 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / General$2bisacsh 608 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc. 608 $aElectronic books. 610 $aAdorno. 610 $aFrankfurt School. 610 $aaesthetics. 610 $aanimal studies. 610 $acritical theory. 610 $ahumanism. 610 $apolitical. 610 $aposthumanism. 615 0$aHuman-animal relationships$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aHumanism. 615 7$aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / General. 676 $a179/.3 686 $acci1icc$2lacc 700 $aBasnett$b Caleb J$01217507 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910554492903321 996 $aAdorno, Politics, and the Aesthetic Animal$92815693 997 $aUNINA