Adorno and the need in thinking : new critical essays / / edited by Donald Burke [and four others]

• Pubblicazione: Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2007; ©2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (374 p.)
• Disciplina: 193
• Soggetto topico: PHILOSOPHY / General
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): BurkeDonald A. <1971->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- PART ONE: LANGUAGE. Theses on the language of the philosopher -- Adorno's dialectics of language -- The 'aesthetic dignity of words' : Adorno's philosophy of language -- The linguistic image : mediation and immediacy in Adorno and Benjamin -- PART TWO: METAPHYSICS AND SOCIETY. Metaphysics after Auschwitz : suffering and hope in Adorno's Negative dialectics -- From the actual to the possible : non-identity thinking -- Experience and aura : Adorno, McDowell, and 'second nature' -- PART THREE: COMMUNICATION, REIFICATION, AND THE NON-IDENTICAL. Mystical kernels? Rational shells? Habermas and Adorno on reification and re-enchantment -- Politics beyond speech: communication and the non-identical -- Adorno's aesthetics of reconciliation : negative presentation of Utopia or post-metaphysical pipe-dream? -- PART FOUR: AESTHETICS AND CULTURE. On Adorno's aesthetics of the ugly -- 'Three-minute access' : Fugazi's negative aesthetic -- A world of difference : Adorno and cultural studies -- 'On the morality of thinking', or why still Adorno -- PART FIVE: ECOLOGY. Adorno and ecological politics.
• Sommario/riassunto: At a time when Adorno scholarship is on the rise, this collection sheds light on new areas of critical research, adding another dimension to the existing literature on this most important intellectual.
• Titolo autorizzato: Adorno and the need in thinking
• ISBN: 1-4426-8399-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910780675303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II