Towards a new manifesto / Theodor Adorno & Max Horkheimer ; translated by Rodney Livingstone with essays translated by Iain Macdonald and Martin Shuster

Originally published under the title "Diskussion über Theorie und Praxis", an appendix to vol. 13 of Marx Horkheimer, Gesammelte Schriften, Nachgelassene Schriften 1949-1972

Includes bibliographical references

"A record of their discussions over three weeks in the spring of 1956, recorded with a view to writing a contemporary version of The Communist Manifesto, this conversation ranges across its central themes--theory and practice, labor and leisure, domination and freedom--in a register found nowhere else in their work. Amid a careening flux of arguments, aphorisms and asides, in which the trenchant alternates with the reckless, positions are swapped and contradictions unheeded resulting in a thrilling example of philosophy in action and a compelling map of a possible passage to a new world"--Back cover

"A record of their discussions over three weeks in the spring of 1956, recorded with a view to writing a contemporary version of The Communist Manifesto, this conversation ranges across its central themes--theory and practice, labor and leisure, domination and freedom--in a register found nowhere else in their work. Amid a careening flux of arguments, aphorisms and asides, in which the trenchant alternates with the reckless, positions are swapped and contradictions unheeded resulting in a thrilling example of philosophy in action and a compelling map of a possible passage to a new world"--Back cover