The Dynamic of Play and Horror in Adorno's Philosophy
The Dynamic of Play and Horror in Adorno's Philosophy

Author: Bence Józsua Kun

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2023-10-04

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 3111267946

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Long before Wittgenstein drew attention to its complexities, the concept of play had captured the interest of theorists for millennia. How do games contribute to our knowledge of the world? Wherein lies their universal appeal? Play is usually associated with a certain blitheness and buoyancy - could it nevertheless be argued that playfulness is not quite as innocent as it might seem? Bence Kun draws on Adorno's writings to explore the relation between philosophical play (understood here as imaginative thought as well as experimental expression) and an experience of dread Adorno links to children's first encounter with death. By investigating his less familiar works, some of which have not yet been translated, Kun challenges the received view on Adorno's approach to metaphysics, the role of systematic inquiry and the modern condition. As he has Adorno say, the originary impression of shock at the heart of philosophical reflection can only be fully apprehended through an open-ended and defiantly creative intellectual practice.

Adorno’s Philosophy of the Nonidentical
Adorno’s Philosophy of the Nonidentical

Author: Oshrat C. Silberbusch

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-09-22

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 3319956272

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This book focuses on a central notion in Theodor. W. Adorno’s philosophy: the nonidentical. The nonidentical is what our conceptual framework cannot grasp and must therefore silence, the unexpressed other of our rational engagement with the world. This study presents the nonidentical as the multidimensional centerpiece of Adorno’s reflections on subjectivity, truth, suffering, history, art, morality and politics, revealing the intimate relationship between how and what we think. Adorno’s work, written in the shadow of Auschwitz, is a quest for a different way of thinking, one that would give the nonidentical a voice – as the somatic in reasoning, the ephemeral in truth, the aesthetic in cognition, the other in society. Adorno’s philosophy of the nonidentical reveals itself not only as a powerful hermeneutics of the past, but also as an important tool for the understanding of modern phenomena such as xenophobia, populism, political polarization, identity politics, and systemic racism.

Critical Models
Critical Models

Author: Theodor W. Adorno

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 474

ISBN-13: 9780231135047

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"Critical Models' combines two of Adorno's most important postwar works - 'Interventions' and 'Catchwords"--And addresses issues such as the dangers of ideological conformity, the fragility of democracy, educational reform, the influence of television and radio and the aftermath and continuity of racism.

Adorno, Politics, and the Aesthetic Animal
Adorno, Politics, and the Aesthetic Animal

Author: Caleb J. Basnett

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 1487541449

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Reconstructing the philosophy of T.W. Adorno, this book offers a critical theory of the human/animal distinction and its relation to politics.

Negative Dialectics and Event
Negative Dialectics and Event

Author: Vangelis Giannakakis

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2021-11-04

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13: 179363887X

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History is replete with false and unfulfilled promises, as well as singular acts of courage, resilience, and ingenuity. These episodes have led to significant changes in the way people think and act in the world or have set the stage for such transformations in the form of rational expectations in theory and the hopeful anticipations of dialectical imagination. Negative Dialectics and Event: Nonidentity, Culture, and the Historical Adequacy of Consciousness revisits some of Theodor W. Adorno’s most influential writings and theoretical interventions to argue not only that his philosophy is uniquely suited to bring such events into sharp relief and reflect on their entailments but also that an effective historical consciousness today would be a consciousness awake to the events that interpellate and shape it into existence. More broadly, Vangelis Giannakakis presents a compelling argument in support of the view that the critical theory developed by the first generation of the Frankfurt School still has much to offer in terms of both cultivating insights into contemporary human experience and building resistance against states of affairs that impede human flourishing and happiness.

Dialectic of Enlightenment
Dialectic of Enlightenment

Author: Max Horkheimer

Publisher: Burns & Oates

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13:

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A major study of modern culture, Dialectic of Enlightenment for many years led an underground existence among the homeless Left of the German Federal Republic until its definitive publication in West Germany in 1969. Originally composed by its two distinguished authors during their Californian exile in 1944, the book can stand as a monument of classic German progressive social theory in the twentieth century.>

Adorno on Popular Culture
Adorno on Popular Culture

Author: Robert Winston Witkin

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780415268257

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Unpacks Adorno's critique of popular culture in an engagingly, looking at the development of theories of authority, commodification and negative dialectics. Goes on to consider Adorno's writing on specific aspects of popular culture.

Minima Moralia
Minima Moralia

Author: Theodor Adorno

Publisher: Verso

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9781844670512

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"A volume of Adorno is equivalent to a whole shelf of books on literature." Susan Sontag

The Melancholy Science
The Melancholy Science

Author: Gillian Rose

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2014-01-07

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 178168152X

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The Melancholy Science is Gillian Rose’s investigation into Theodor Adorno’s work and legacy. Rose uncovers the unity discernable among the many fragments of Adorno’s oeuvre, and argues that his influence has been to turn Marxism into a search for style. The attempts of Adorno, Lukács and Benjamin to develop a Marxist theory of culture centred on the concept of reification are contrasted, and the ways in which the concept of reification has come to be misused are exposed. Adorno’s continuation for his own time of the Marxist critique of philosophy is traced through his writings on Hegel, Kierkegaard, Husserl and Heidegger. His opposition to the separation of philosophy and sociology is shown by examination of his critique of Durkheim and Weber, and of his contributions to the dispute over positivism, his critique of empirical social research and his own empirical sociology. Gillian Rose shows Adorno’s most important contribution to be his founding of a Marxist aesthetic that offers a sociology of culture, as demonstrated in his essays on Kafka, Mann, Beckett, Brecht and Schönberg. Finally, Adorno’s ‘Melancholy Science’ is revealed to offer a ‘sociology of illusion’ that rivals both structural Marxism and phenomenological sociology as well as the subsequent work of the Frankfurt School.