Course
Master's degree
Research title
THE AGONY OF LABOUR IN THE AGE OF EMERGENCY: A CRITIQUE OF THE ECONOMICAL-POLITICAL ASSUMPTIONS OF ADORNO'S SOCIAL THEORY AND IT'S CONSEQUENCES
Research abstract
Starting from the analysis developed by Charles Prusik (2020) in Adorno and Neoliberalism, the present inquiry intends to show that Adorno's diagnostic captures historical lines of force that, latent in his time, emerged two years after his death, forming the inicial framework of the "catastrophic course of the world" (Arantes, 2015 p.254). Developing a "practice of society as a whole, namely, a
structurally refered informed practice ", Adorno's social theory (2008a, p.97), by positing the social nexus as a tension between structural tendencies and constelations of power, find in the crisis of labour exploitation and acummulation of surplus value the economical tendecy that expresses the
exhaustion of the logical limits of capitalism.
Graduate Advisor
Paulo Eduardo Arantes