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Minimal Theologies - Critiques of Secular Reason in Adorno and Levinas (Hardcover)
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Minimal Theologies - Critiques of Secular Reason in Adorno and Levinas (Hardcover)
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What, at this historical moment "after Auschwitz," still remains of
the questions traditionally asked by theology? What now is
theology's minimal degree? This magisterial study, the first
extended comparison of the writings of Theodor W. Adorno and
Emmanuel Levinas, explores remnants and echoes of religious forms
in these thinkers' critiques of secular reason, finding in the work
of both a "theology in pianissimo" constituted by the trace of a
transcendent other. The author analyzes, systematizes, and
formalizes this idea of an other of reason. In addition, he frames
these thinkers' innovative projects within the arguments of such
intellectual heirs as JA1/4rgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida,
defending their work against later accusations of "performative
contradiction" (by Habermas) or "empiricism" (by Derrida) and in
the process casting important new light on those later writers as
well. Attentive to rhetorical and rational features of Adorno's and
Levinas's texts, his investigations of the concepts of history,
subjectivity, and language in their writings provide a radical
interpretation of their paradoxical modes of thought and reveal
remarkable and hitherto unsuspected parallels between their
philosophical methods, parallels that amount to a plausible way of
overcoming certain impasses in contemporary philosophical thinking.
In Adorno, this takes the form of a dialectical critique of
dialectics; in Levinas, that of a phenomenological critique of
phenomenology, each of which sheds new light on ancient and modern
questions of metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics. For the
English-language publication, the author has extensively revised
and updated the prize-winning German version.
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