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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814701003321

Autore

Foster Roger <1971->

Titolo

Adorno and philosophical modernism : the inside of things / / Roger S. Foster

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-4985-2501-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (261 p.)

Disciplina

193

Soggetti

Modernism (Aesthetics)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Why Adorno, Today?; Chapter One: Philosophical Modernism; Chapter Two: Adorno and Heidegger on Language and the Inexpressible; Chapter Three: Philosophy in the Open; Chapter Four: Language and Aesthetic Experience; Chapter Five: The Internal History of Truth; Chapter Six: Modernist Ethics: Musil and Adorno; Chapter Seven: Virginia Woolf: Literature and Aesthetic Experience; Conclusion: Modernist Criticism; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores contemporary continental philosophy and aesthetics, focusing on the work of philosopher and musicologist Theodor W. Adorno. Roger Foster addresses the problem of post-Kantian reason in relation to the pathologies of experience, alienation, the transformative and ethical import of aesthetic experience, the relation between philosophy and social critique, and language as disclosure rather than correspondence.