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An edition of Adorno and existence (2016)

Adorno and existence

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From the beginning to the end of his career, the critical theorist and Frankfurt School philosopher Theodor W. Adorno sustained an uneasy but enduring bond with existentialism. His attitude overall was that of unsparing criticism, often 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" that cloaked its idealism in an aura of pseudo-concreteness and neo-romantic kitsch; even in the more rationalist tradition of Husserl's phenomenology he detected a vain attempt of the bourgeois spirit to break free from the prison-house of immanent consciousness. Yet his enduring fascination with the philosophical canons of existentialism and phenomenology suggests a connection far more complicated and productive than mere antipathy. From his first published book on Kierkegaard's aesthetic to the mature studies in negative dialectics, Adorno was forever returning to the philosophies of bourgeois interiority, seeking the paradoxical relation between their manifest failure and their hidden promise. Scholars of critical theory often regard these philosophical adventures as unfortunate lapses into reductive sociology or as marginal to Adorno's path of intellectual development. In Adorno and Existence, Peter E. Gordon challenges this assumption, showing how the confrontation with existentialism helps us toward a deeper understanding of Adorno's own intellectual commitments. In lucid prose and with a dialectical sensitivity for the links between philosophy and life, Adorno and Existence casts new and unfamiliar light on this neglected chapter in the history of Continental philosophy.--

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Table of Contents

Introduction: A philosophical physiognomy
Starting out with Kierkegaard: An unlikely cathexis
The Kierkegaard reception in Germany
Adorno's Kierkegaard-book
Reading Kierkegaard against the grain
Aesthetics and interiority
Wahl's Études kierkegaardiennes
Kierkegaard on love
Ontology and phenomenology: Reading philosophy in the 1930s
Philosophy and actuality
Historicizing nature
Anticipations of the Hegel-studies
Lukács and Benjamin
The metacritique of phenomenology
Failure and non-identity
Husserl's progress, Heidegger's regression
Toward negative dialectics
The jargon of authenticity: Existentialism's aura
Satire and secularization
The Wurlitzer organ of the spirit
The miserable consolation of self-identity
Grace and dignity
Endgame as "negative ontology"
On Hölderlin and parataxis
Negative dialectics: Adorno's "Fat child"
Rage against nature
Toward a primacy of the object
Pseudo-concreteness
Aura and mimesis
French existentialism
Kierkegaard's nominalism
Heidegger's critique of reification
Ontology as wish-fulfillment
Into the looking glass
Disenchanting the concept
Kierkegaard's return: Salvaging metaphysics
Materialism
The family scandal
Odradek as damaged life
The mirror image
Hope against hope
Aesthetics and interiority
Conclusion: Adorno's inverse theology.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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193
Library of Congress
B3199.A34 G67 2016, B3199.A34G67 2016

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Pagination
xiv, 256 pages
Number of pages
256

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Open Library
OL26888091M
Internet Archive
adornoexistence0000gord
ISBN 10
0674734785
ISBN 13
9780674734784
LCCN
2016011712
OCLC/WorldCat
945693795

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