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Series Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Foucault's Modernisms / David Scott -- Part 1. Conceptualizing Foucault 1. The Origin of Parresia in Foucault's Thinking: Truth and Freedom in The History of Madness / Leonard Lawlor and Daniel J. Palumbo ; 2. The Secret of the Corpse-Language Machine: The Birth of the Clinic and Raymond / Roussel David Scott ; 3. Intersections of the Concept and Literature in TheOrder of Things: Foucault and Canguilhem / Samuel Talcott ; 4. ArcArcheology of Knowledge: Foucault and the Time of Discourse / Heath Massey ; 5. Carceral, Capital, Power: The 'Dark Side' of the Enlightenment in Discipline and Punish / Christopher Penfield ; 6. Foucault's History of Sexuality / Chloë Taylor -- Part 2. Foucault and Aesthetics. 7. Technologies of Modernism: Historicism in Foucault and Dos Passos / Christopher Breu ; 8. Thought as Spirituality in Raymond Roussel / Ann Burlein ; 9. Life Escaping: Foucault, Vitalism, and Gertrude Stein's Life-Writing / Sarah Posman ; 10. The Specter of Manet: A Contribution to the Archaeology of Painting / Joseph Tanke ; 11. The Hermaphroditic Image: Modern Art, Thought and Exp rience in Michel Foucault / Nicole Ridgway -- Part 3. Glossary. Archaeology / Heath Massey ; The "Author-Function" / Seth Forrest ; Biopower / Chloë Taylor ; Discipline / Steve Tammelleo ; Episteme / Samuel Talcott ; Genealogy / Brad Elliot Stone ; Power / Brad Elliot Stone ; Problematization / Daniele Lorenzini ; Transgression / Janae Scholtz ; Truth / Marc De Kesel ; Subjectivation / Mark Murphy -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.

"Adorno is central to our understanding of Modernism. Having studied philosophy at a time when its traditions were being seriously uprooted by the atrocities of World War II, Theodor Adorno had an enormous impact on thinking about aesthetics at a transitional historical moment when the philosophy of science and leftist politics were looking for new ground. Moreover, with his focus on the rise of commercial culture and its effects on identity-construction, Adorno can be said to have reinvigorated modernist concerns by introducing the prevailing terms in our contemporary versions of cultural politics and cultural studies. Understanding Adorno, Understanding Modernism traces Adorno's social and aesthetic ideas as they appear and reappear in his corpus. As per other volumes in the series, this book is divided into three parts. The first, "Adorno's Keywords," is organized by the aesthetic terms around which Adorno's philosophy circulates. The second section is devoted to "Adorno and Aesthetics." While Adorno's philosophical viewpoints influenced modernism's evolution into the 21st century, the history of modernist aesthetics also shaped his philosophical approaches. The third and final part, "Adorno's Constellations," discusses how aesthetic form in Adorno's thinking underlies the terms of his social analysis"--