Description: From the beginning to the end of his career, the philosopher Theodor W. Adorno sustained an uneasy but enduring bond with existentialism. His attitude overall was that of unsparing criticism, verging on polemic. In Kierkegaard he saw an early paragon for the late flowering of bourgeois solipsism; in Heidegger, an impresario for a “jargon of authenticity” cloaking its idealism in an aura of pseudo-concreteness and neo-romantic kitsch. Even in the straitened rationalism of Husserl’s phenomenology Adorno saw a vain attempt to break free from the prison-house of consciousness.Most scholars of critical theory still regard these philosophical exercises as marginal works―unfortunate lapses of judgment for a thinker otherwise celebrated for dialectical mastery. Yet his persistent fascination with the philosophical canons of existentialism and phenomenology suggests a connection far more productive tha…condition info: Has a sturdy binding with some shelf wear. May have light markings on pages.
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EAN: 9780674734784
Book Title: Adorno and Existence
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Topic: Individual Philosophers, Sociology / General, Movements / Existentialism, History & Surveys / Modern, Movements / Critical Theory
Item Height: 1 in
Publication Year: 2016
Genre: Philosophy, Social Science
Item Weight: 15.3 Oz
Item Length: 8.5 in
Author: Peter E. Gordon
Item Width: 6.5 in
Format: Hardcover
