Adorno and the need in thinking new critical essays / edited by Donald Burke ... [et al].

Other author Burke, Donald A., 1971-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoToronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press,
Descriptionviii, 365 p. ; 24 cm.
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Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969.
Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969.

Contents Introduction -- PART ONE: LANGUAGE. Theses on the language of the philosopher -- Adorno's dialectics of language -- The 'aesthetic dignity of words' : Adorno's philosophy of language -- The linguistic image : mediation and immediacy in Adorno and Benjamin -- PART TWO: METAPHYSICS AND SOCIETY. Metaphysics after Auschwitz : suffering and hope in Adorno's Negative dialectics -- From the actual to the possible : non-identity thinking -- Experience and aura : Adorno, McDowell, and 'second nature' -- PART THREE: COMMUNICATION, REIFICATION, AND THE NON-IDENTICAL. Mystical kernels? Rational shells? Habermas and Adorno on reification and re-enchantment -- Politics beyond speech: communication and the non-identical -- Adorno's aesthetics of reconciliation : negative presentation of Utopia or post-metaphysical pipe-dream? -- PART FOUR: AESTHETICS AND CULTURE. On Adorno's aesthetics of the ugly -- 'Three-minute access' : Fugazi's negative aesthetic -- A world of difference : Adorno and cultural studies -- 'On the morality of thinking', or why still Adorno -- PART FIVE: ECOLOGY. Adorno and ecological politics.
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LCCN 2008353694
ISBN9780802092144 (alk. paper)
ISBN0802092144 (alk. paper)

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