To think antifascistically is necessarily to think geographically; to think geographically ought to be to think antifascistically. This aphorism sets the compass for this book’s ambitious attempt to fold questions of fascism and antifascism into the remit of Geotheory (the focus of the host book series). Alert to fascism’s pernicious haunting of our contemporary moment, it reaches for intellectual resources through which to fashion constellations of antifascist thought hinging on attentiveness to space, place, landscape and nature.
Specifically, the book offers the first attempt to systematically explore the ‘geographies’ integral to the thinking of Theodor W. Adorno, premier exponent of the Frankfurt School of critical theory whose writings – on philosophy and sociology, politics and culture, literature and music – were often framed precisely against the threat of fascistic regression. By disclosing Adorno’s geographies, the shape of a geographical antifascism comes into view as a transformational restatement of critical geography’s spirit and purpose.
A pioneering excavation of Adorno’s geography which engages fascism and antifascism in the terrain of geographical theorising.
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A staggering work of urgent scholarship. Through rigorous, careful engagement with Adornos oeuvre, Philo affirms the value of critical thought as he uncovers and crafts a compelling antifascist geographical imagination. One of the most important geographical books of the 21st century, Adorno and the Antifascist Geographical Imagination is essential reading amid todays fascistic tendencies. -- Ben Anderson, Durham University [ Adorno and the Antifascist Geographical Imagination] is of great value to any reader deeply concerned with the unfolding of world events that seem to repeat past histories as continuations and reverberations of fascism. -- The AAG Review of Books * Yuan He *
Contents
Figures, Tables and Textboxes
Acknowledgements
Prologue
Chapter 1: Adorno, geography, fascism, antifascism
Chapter 2: Nature, space and the geographies of unenlightenment
Chapter 3: Love, hate and social geographies of the vanquished,
disinherited and insignificant
Chapter 4: Melancholic geographies of the fragmentary and nothing-much
Chapter 5: Metaphysical geographies of the non-conceptual and non-identical
Chapter 6: Actuality, interiority and beyond bourgeois existential
geographies
Chapter 7: Authenticity, rusticity and beyond fascist existential
geographies
Chapter 8: Aesthetics and artworks from culture industry to cultural
landscapes
Chapter 9: Physiognomy, geometry, jazz and the multiple spaces of/in musical
material
Chapter 10: Authoritarianism, astrology and the scaled spaces of fascism
Epilogue
Bibliography
Chris Philo is Professor of Geography at the University of Glasgow. He is editor of Theory and Methods: Critical Essays in Human Geography (Ashgate, 2008), co-editor of The International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (Elsevier, 2009) and of The Sage Handbook of Human Geography (Sage, 2014).
