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TY  - BOOK
ID  - 31215876
TI  - Theodor Adorno and the century of negative identity
PY  - 2018
SN  - 9781503606067 1503606066 9780804799249 9781503606074 1503606074 0804799245
PB  - Stanford, California
DB  - UniCat
KW  - Identity (Philosophical concept)
KW  - Critical theory
KW  - History.
KW  - Adorno, Theodor W.,
KW  - Adorno, Theodor Wiesengrund,
KW  - Critical social theory
KW  - Critical theory (Philosophy)
KW  - Critical theory (Sociology)
KW  - Negative philosophy
KW  - Criticism (Philosophy)
KW  - Philosophy, Modern
KW  - Rationalism
KW  - Sociology
KW  - Frankfurt school of sociology
KW  - Socialism
KW  - Identity
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Comparison (Philosophy)
KW  - Resemblance (Philosophy)
KW  - Adorno, Theodor W.
KW  - Wiesengrund, Theodor,
KW  - Wiesengrund-Adorno, Theodor,
KW  - Adorno, Teodor V.,
KW  - Adorŭno,
KW  - אדורנו, תאודור
KW  - אדורנו, ת. ו.
KW  - Adorno, Th. W.
KW  - Adorno, Theodor
KW  - Critical theory - United States
KW  - Adorno, Theodor W., - 1903-1969
UR  - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:31215876
AB  - Identity has become a central feature of national conversations: identity politics and identity crises are the order of the day. We celebrate identity when it comes to personal freedom and group membership, and we fear the power of identity when it comes to discrimination, bias, and hate crimes. Drawing on Isaiah Berlin's famous distinction between positive and negative liberty, Theodor Adorno and the Century of Negative Identity argues for the necessity of acknowledging a dialectic within the identity concept. Exploring the intellectual history of identity as a social idea, Eric Oberle shows the philosophical importance of identity's origins in American exile from Hitler's fascism. Positive identity was first proposed by Frankfurt School member Erich Fromm, while negative identity was almost immediately put forth as a counter-concept by Fromm's colleague, Theodor Adorno. Oberle explains why, in the context of the racism, authoritarianism, and the hard-right agitation of the 1940s, the invention of a positive concept of identity required a theory of negative identity. This history in turn reveals how autonomy and objectivity can be recovered within a modern identity structured by domination, alterity, ontologized conflict, and victim blaming.
ER  -