Arash Abazari is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Sharif University of Technology and Researcher at the Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), both in Tehran. His research focuses on nineteenth-century German philosophy and social and political philosophy, and he has published articles in Hegel-Bulletin and Philosophy and Social Criticism.
Introduction
1. Illusion or semblance
1.1 'Socially necessary illusion' in Adorno
1.2 Semblance in the logic
1.3 The dialectic of semblance
1.4 The logic of ideology in Marx
2. Opposition
2.1 The fundamentality of opposition
2.2 The dialectic of the determinations of reflection
2.3 Opposition as domination
2.4 ...and the logical proof for it
2.5 The 'truth' of diversity in opposition
2.6 Opposition between capital and labor
2.7 ...and between genders
2.8 Conclusion
3. Totality
3.1 Society as totality in Adorno
3.2 Two misconceptions of totality
3.3 Actuality
3.4 The critique of Spinoza's substance
3.5 Substance as absolute power
3.6 The 'spell' of totality
4. Capital as totality
4.1 The critique of methodological individualism
4.2 Capital as the dialectical unity of circulation and production
4.3 The circuit of capital
4.4 The reproduction of capital
4.5 The power of capital
5. The necessity of totality
5.1 The preliminaries
5.2 The critique of the cosmological proof
5.3 The dialectic of necessity and contingency in the logic
5.4 ...and in capitalism
5.5 The illusion and contingency of freedom
5.6 The critique of pluralism
Conclusion: the failed transition to the realm of genuine freedom
Works cited
Index.
