Pfaller — Everyday Analysis

THE DIALECTICS OF AUTHORITARIAN REASON
Robert Pfaller

How can we understand the fact that, within such a short time, the discourse of sexual liberation turned into that of sexual harassment, or or how a party that had its origins in the peace movement in the 1980s (like the German Green Party) perverted itself into a party of moralist warmongers?

To answer these and similar questions, this new pamphlet by the legendary Austrian philosopher Robert Pfaller argues that while Adorno and Horkheimer suspected reason to contain a moment of immanent violence, we might be better served to suspect antiauthoritarianism to contain a moment of immanent obstruction against autonomy.

EVERYDAY ANALYSIS

Edited by
Alfie Bown
Helen Rollins
Jag Bhalla
Gilbert May