Really existing socialization
Socialization and socialism in Adorno and Foucault
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4481583 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Deborah Cook (University of Windsor, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 127 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 78-94 |
| Publication date | 2015-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Thesis Eleven (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0725-5136 • E-ISSN: 1461-7455 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0725513615576132 |
| OpenAlex | W2079426928 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 7 |
The paper begins by comparing Adorno's and Foucault's accounts of the normalizing practices that socialize individuals, integrating them into Western societies. In this context, I argue that the animus against socialism can be read as an expression of profound anxiety about the existing socialization of reproduction in the West. In fact, Adorno and Foucault contend that really existing socialization has contained our political imagination to the point where even our ideas about alternatives only conjure up more of the same. Yet Adorno and Foucault do outline what radical social change might look like. Since Foucault linked radical change to the development of a specifically socialist art of government, but offered few clues about what this might mean, the paper also explores Adorno's work to put more flesh on the idea of a socialist art of government
Aesthetics · Communism · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Political science · Politics · Reproduction · Social science · Socialism · Socialization · Sociology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |