Chris Cutrone lectures on Adorno and the negative dialectic of Marxism

Chris Cutrone’s academic lectures contextualize and explain Theodor W. Adorno’s book Negative Dialectics and dialectical epilegomena 1968-69, building upon prior lectures on Adorno’s essays on the negative dialectic in Marxism, Georg Lukacs’s “The phenomenon of reification” and “The standpoint of the proletariat,” parts 1 and 3 of “Reification and the consciousness of the proletariat” from History and Class Consciousness (1923), and Karl Korsch’s 1923 essay on “Marxism and philosophy.” From Cutrone’s Summer 2024 course on Marx and Marxism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago 씨스루.

Part 1, on Adorno’s essays on the negative dialectic of Marxism:

Part 2, on Adorno’s book Negative Dialectics:

Part 3, on Adorno’s dialectical epilegomena 1968-69: