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Record Nr.

UNINA9910300632403321

Autore

Silberbusch Oshrat C

Titolo

Adorno’s Philosophy of the Nonidentical : Thinking as Resistance / / by Oshrat C. Silberbusch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

9783319956275

3-319-95627-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (213 pages)

Disciplina

193

Soggetti

Aesthetics

World War, 1939-1945

European literature

History of World War II and the Holocaust

European Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- The Fate of the Nonidentical: Auschwitz and the Dialectic of Enlightenment -- The Torturable Body: Adorno’s Negative Dialectic -- Philosophy of Art, Art of Philosophy: Adorno’s Aesthetic Utopia -- Epilogue.

Sommario/riassunto

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.