LEADER 02985nam 22005415 450 001 9911007487003321 005 20250529130254.0 010 $a3-031-91413-9 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-91413-3 035 $a(CKB)39124451000041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-91413-3 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC32140546 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL32140546 035 $a(EXLCZ)9939124451000041 100 $a20250529d2025 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCritical Theory and Symbolic Thinking /$fby Gintautas Ma?eikis 205 $a1st ed. 2025. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2025. 215 $a1 online resource (VII, 270 p.) 311 08$a3-031-91412-0 327 $a1. 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. 330 $aThis 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 Ma?eikis 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. 606 $aCritical theory 606 $aPolitical science$xPhilosophy 606 $aLiterature$xPhilosophy 606 $aCritical Theory 606 $aPolitical Philosophy 606 $aPhilosophy of Literature 615 0$aCritical theory. 615 0$aPolitical science$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aLiterature$xPhilosophy. 615 14$aCritical Theory. 615 24$aPolitical Philosophy. 615 24$aPhilosophy of Literature. 676 $a142 700 $aMa?eikis$b Gintautas$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01821891 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911007487003321 996 $aCritical Theory and Symbolic Thinking$94387832 997 $aUNINA