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Language Without Soil - Adorno and Late Philosophical Modernity (Paperback, annotated edition)
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Language Without Soil - Adorno and Late Philosophical Modernity (Paperback, annotated edition)
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Theodor W. Adorno's multifaceted work has exerted a profound impact
on far-ranging discourses and critical practices in late modernity.
His analysis of the fate of art following its alleged end, of
ethical imperatives "after Auschwitz," of the negative dialectic of
myth and freedom from superstition, of the manipulation of
consciousness by the unequal siblings of fascism and the culture
industry, and of the narrowly-conceived concept of reason that has
given rise to an unprecedented exploitation of nature and needless
human suffering, all speak to central concerns of our time. The
essays collected here analyze the full range of implications
emanating from Adorno's demand that the task of critical thinking
be to imagine a mode of being in the world that occurs in and
through a language that has liberated itself from the spell of an
alleged historical and political inevitability, what he once
tellingly called a "language without soil." Adorno' s finely
chiseled sentences perform a ceaseless gesture of thoughtful
vigilance, a vigilance understood not in the sense of moralizing or
ethical normativity but of a rigorous attention to the
presuppositions of thinking itself. The volume's fresh readings
conspire to yield a refractory and unorthodox Adorno, a suggestive
and at times infuriating thinker of the first order, whose
intellectual gestures sponsor politically conscious modes of
theoretical speculation in a late modernity that may still have a
future because its language and aspirations are without soil. Also
included is an annotated translation of a seminal interview Adorno
gave in 1969 concerning the relationship of Critical Theory to
political activism. In it, the dialectical interplay between
thought and action forcefully emerges.
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