Critical Theory and Symbolic Thinking

Gintautas Mažeikis

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Palgrave Macmillan
29 May 2025

Literary theory; Philosophy: aesthetics; Social & political philosophy

This book interprets axial cultural symbols, specific cultural symbolic organizations, and symbolic constellations in the context of Critical Theory and its negative dialectic. It engages the origins, structures, weaknesses, and possibilities of symbolic thinking, and incorporates ideas from a range of thinkers, including Hegel, Nietzsche, Marx, Adorno, Horkheimer, and Benjamin, among others. The book charts a new way of looking at the role of philosophy in culture, and provides tools for a new insight in the history of the formation of the consciousness of symbolic thought within philosophy itself. Furthermore, it shows how practically useful symbolic thinking can become in the practices of philosophical diplomacy, the processes of communication, mutual understanding and the formation of contemporary political and cultural discourse.

By: Gintautas Mažeikis
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm,
ISBN: 9783031914126
ISBN 10: 3031914120
Pages: 270
Publication Date: 29 May 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction.- Chapter I: The Pathos and the Aura.- Chapter 2: Iconology and Critical Theory.- Chapter 3: Negative Dialectics: The Doors to Indefinite Futures.- Chapter 4: Symbolical Figures.- Chapter 5: Spontaneity and Mediation: Philosophical Drama and Diplomacy.- Chapter 6: Politics and Diplomacy of Symbolic Organizations.

Gintautas Mažeikis is philosopher, professor, the head of the Center of Social and Political Critique at Vytautas Magnus University, in Kaunas, Lithuania. He is also a public media commentator and public activist.

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