Negativity and Revolution

John Holloway has published widely on Marxist theory, on the Zapatista movement and on the new forms of anti-capitalist struggle. His book Change the World without Taking Power has been translated into eleven languages and has stirred an international debate, and Crack Capitalism is a renowned classic. He is currently Professor of Sociology in the Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades of the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla in Mexico.

Phil O'Keefe is Professor of Economic Development and Environmental Management at Northumbria University. He is also the Director of ETC-UK and co-author with Neil Middleton of Disaster and Development (Pluto, 1997), Redefining Sustainable Development (Pluto, 2001), Rio Plus Ten (Pluto, 2003) and co-editor of Negotiating Poverty (Pluto, 2003).

Sergio Tischler is the co-editor (with Werner Bonefeld) of Negativity and Revolution (Pluto, 2008) and What is to be Done? Leninism, Anti-Leninist Marxism and the Question of Revolution Today (2002).

'This book could well have been titled 'Reading Adorno Politically.' Using Adorno's work as touchstone and emphasising the originality of his negative dialectics, these essays engage some of the most important debates among contemporary political theorists and activists' - Michael Hardt, co-author of Empire and Multitude 'It is exciting to see how younger generations of scholars continue to work with Adorno's methods and keep his insights alive' - Prof. Detlev Claussen, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University of Hannover

Acknowledgements
I Introduction to the Issues
1. Negativity and Revolution: Adorno and Political Activism
John Holloway. Fernando Matamoros, Sergio Tischler
2. Why Adorno? John Holloway
3. Pied Pipers and Polymaths: Adorno's Critique of Praxisism - Adrian Wilding
II Negative Dialectics versus Neo-Structuralism
4. Antagonism and Difference: Negative Dialectics and Poststructuralism in View of the Critique of Modern Capitalism - Alberto R. Bonnet
5. Adorno and Post-vanguardism - Darij Zadnikar
6. Positive and Negative Autonomism. Or Why Adorno? Part 2
John Holloway
III Emancipation and the Critique of Totality
7. Adorno: The Conceptual Prison of the Subject, Political Fetishism and Class Struggle - Sergio Tischler
8. Emancipatory Praxis and Conceptuality in Adorno - Werner Bonefeld
IV The Politics of Sexuality and Art
9. Adorno, Non-identity, Sexuality - Marcel Stoetzler
10. Solidarity with the Fall of Metaphysics: Negativity and Hope - Fernando Matamoros
11. Mimesis and Distance: Arts and the Social in Adorno's Thought - Jose Manuel Martinez
List of Contributors
Name Index
Subject Index