Nate Holdren, Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era
The motive force which underlies the critical theory of society is, according to Theodor W. Adorno, human suffering. “The physical moment,” he writes, “tells our knowledge that suffering ought not to be, that things should be different” (203). To be sure, humans have a unique capacity to inflict pa...
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European journal of American studies
2023
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| Izvleček: | The motive force which underlies the critical theory of society is, according to Theodor W. Adorno, human suffering. “The physical moment,” he writes, “tells our knowledge that suffering ought not to be, that things should be different” (203). To be sure, humans have a unique capacity to inflict pain upon one another in all sorts of ways. But if there is one area in modernity in which suffering prevails with stunning regularity it is the realm of production; that is, at work. What is even mo... |
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