LEADER 03309nam 22004695 450 001 9910149191003321 005 20170310101934.0 010 $a0-674-97353-4 010 $a0-674-97351-8 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674973510 035 $a(CKB)3710000000929589 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4731164 035 $a(DE-B1597)479644 035 $a(OCoLC)984656989 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674973510 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000929589 100 $a20170310d2017 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aAdorno and Existence /$fPeter E. Gordon 210 1$aCambridge, MA : $cHarvard University Press, $d[2017] 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (273 pages) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-674-73478-5 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tINTRODUCTION. A Philosophical Physiognomy -- $t1. Starting Out with Kierkegaard -- $t2. Ontology and Phenomenology -- $t3. The Jargon of Authenticity -- $t4. Negative Dialectics -- $t5. Kierkegaard?s Return -- $tCONCLUSION. Adorno?s Inverse Theology -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aFrom the beginning to the end of his career, the critical theorist Theodor W. Adorno sustained an uneasy but enduring bond with existentialism. His attitude overall was that of unsparing criticism, 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? cloaking its idealism in an aura of pseudo-concreteness and neo-romantic kitsch. Even in the straitened rationalism of Husserl?s phenomenology Adorno saw a vain attempt to break free from the prison-house of consciousness. Most scholars of critical theory still regard these philosophical exercises as marginal works?unfortunate lapses of judgment for a thinker otherwise celebrated for dialectical mastery. Yet his persistent fascination with the philosophical canons of existentialism and phenomenology suggests a connection far more 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. Ultimately, Adorno saw in them an instructive if unsuccessful attempt to realize his own ambition: to escape the enchanted circle of idealism so as to grasp ?the primacy of the object.? Exercises in ?immanent critique,? Adorno?s writings on Kierkegaard, Husserl, and Heidegger present us with a photographic negative?a philosophical portrait of the author himself. In Adorno and Existence, Peter E. Gordon casts new and unfamiliar light on this neglected chapter in the history of Continental philosophy. 606 $aExistentialism 606 $aFrankfurt school of sociology 615 0$aExistentialism. 615 0$aFrankfurt school of sociology. 676 $a193 700 $aGordon$b Peter E.$0709477 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910149191003321 996 $aAdorno and Existence$92886637 997 $aUNINA