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Thinking with Adorno - The Uncoercive Gaze (Paperback)
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Thinking with Adorno - The Uncoercive Gaze (Paperback)
Series: Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory
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What Theodor W. Adorno says cannot be separated from how he says
it. By the same token, what he thinks cannot be isolated from how
he thinks it. The central aim of Richter’s book is to examine how
these basic yet far-reaching assumptions teach us to think with
Adorno—both alongside him and in relation to his diverse contexts
and constellations. These contexts and constellations range from
aesthetic theory to political critique, from the problem of
judgment to the difficulty of inheriting a tradition, from the
primacy of the object to the question of how to lead a right life
within a wrong one. Richter vividly shows how Adorno’s highly
suggestive—yet often overlooked—concept of the “uncoercive
gaze” designates a specific kind of comportment in relation to an
object of critical analysis: It moves close to the object and
tarries with it while struggling to decipher the singularities and
non-identities that are lodged within it, whether the object is an
idea, a thought, a concept, a text, a work of art, an experience,
or a problem of political or sociological theory. Thinking with
Adorno’s uncoercive gaze not only means following the fascinating
paths of his own work; it also means extending hospitality to the
ghostly voices of others. As this book shows, Adorno is best
understood as a thinker in dialogue, whether with long-deceased
predecessors in the German tradition such as Kant and Hegel, with
writers such as Kafka, with contemporaries such as Benjamin and
Arendt, or with philosophical voices that succeeded him, such as
those of Derrida and Agamben.
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