Agon Culture: Competition, Conflict and the Problem of Domination. Cet article n’est pas disponible.Agon Culture: Competition, Conflict and the Problem of Domination

After over 100 years of technological progress, human societies are trapped in a perual dynamic of conflict and crisis, with modernization at a standstill. While this dialectic of development and destruction has often been ysed from political and economic perspectives, Agon ture offers an ysis of the human conditions through an examination of the way in which the tural ideology of comition operates as a mode of rationality that underpins the order of domination. By combining insights from Theodor Adorno's critical theory with a reconstruction of the philosophy of the agon, the author has formulated a novel critical theory of tural domination that offers insights into our "winner-loser" ture and a renewed intensity of its social Darwinist tendencies. The agon has traditionally been conceptualized as the space where victory and truth emerge from the contest between adversaries. In the spheres of law, politics, sports, and war the imus to pit one's abilities against those of another has shaped the modality of power since the classical Greek ideal of agonism was first instituted in Western ture and society. Contrary to current evolutionary thinkers who understand comition as a biological drive, Agon ture posits that comition is a powerful force that has a largely unrecognized and dangerous underside in its promotion of interpersonal conflict, war and cyclical domination.