The departure point of the text is the premise, that today we are not living the end of ideologies, the reality as such is namely always mediated through an ideology. The ideology of its purest is today’s reference to the “real” in the name of the end of the ideology and in this context the economists and especially neoliberal ones put in the front the market and its supposedly “invisible hand” (Smith). Text exposes some dimensions and consequences of this premise for the understanding of the crisis and for impasses of (post)politics and presents in the end its parallels with “the subject supposed to know” (Lacan).
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The study accompanies the Slovene edition of the polemics between philosophers and thinkers G. Lukács, E. Bloch, W. Benjamin, B. Brecht in T. W. Adorno, which range from the 1920s to the 1960s. It focuses on philosophical conceptualisations of political and economical realities in the times of economical and political crises, the October revolution, the rise of Nazism and the world war. The paper claims that aesthetics, which is at the centre of these debates, enables with its apparent distance from reality a thorough reflection on the link between different dimensions of the crisis.
COBISS.SI-ID: 36577837