Adorno and the Need in Thinking

Published by University of Toronto Press 2007

Adorno and the Need in Thinking

Edited by: Donald Burke , Colin J. Campbell , Kathy Kiloh , Michael Palamarek and Jonathan Short

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442683990

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Burke Donald :

Donald Burke is a PhD candidate in the Graduate Programme in Social and Political Thought at York University.

Campbell Colin J. :

Colin J. Campbell is a PhD candidate in the Graduate Programme in Social and Political Thought at York University.

Kiloh Kathy :

Kathy Kiloh is a PhD candidate in the Graduate Programme in Social and Political Thought at York University.

Palamarek Michael :

Michael K. Palamarek is a PhD candidate in the Graduate Programme in Social and Political Thought at York University and a lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Brock University.

Short Jonathan :

Jonathan Short is a PhD candidate in the Graduate Programme in Social and Political Thought at York University.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I: Language
1. Theses on the Language of the Philosopher Theodor W. Adorno Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
2. Adorno’s Dialectics of Language Michael K. Palamarek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
3. The ‘Aesthetic Dignity of Words’: Adorno’s Philosophy of Language Samir Gandesha Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	78
4. The Linguistic Image: Mediation and Immediacy in Adorno and Benjamin Kathy Kiloh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
II: Metaphysics and Society
5. Metaphysics after Auschwitz: Suffering and Hope in Adorno’s Negative Dialectics Lambert Zuidervaart Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
6. From the Actual to the Possible: Non-identity Thinking Deborah Cook Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
7. Experience and Aura: Adorno, McDowell, and ‘Second Nature’ Jonathan Short Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
III. Communication, Reification, and the Non-identical
8. Mystical Kernels? Rational Shells? Habermas and Adorno on Reification and Re-enchantment Asher Horowitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
9. Politics beyond Speech: Communication and the Non-identical Martin Morris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	218
10. Adorno’s Aesthetics of Reconciliation: Negative Presentation of Utopia or Post-metaphysical Pipe-Dream? Donald A. Burke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
IV. Aesthetics and Culture
11. On Adorno’s Aesthetics of the Ugly Pamela Leach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
12. ‘Three-Minute Access’: Fugazi’s Negative Aesthetic Colin J. Campbell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	278
13. A World of Difference: Adorno and Cultural Studies Shane Gunster Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	296
14. ‘On the Morality of Thinking,’ or Why Still Adorno Asha Varadharajan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	316
V. Ecology
15. Adorno and Ecological Politics Andrew Biro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	345
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	363

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 352

eBook

Published: December 31, 2007
ISBN: 9781442683990