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Autonomy After Auschwitz - Adorno, German Idealism, and Modernity (Hardcover)
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Autonomy After Auschwitz - Adorno, German Idealism, and Modernity (Hardcover)
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Ever since Kant and Hegel, the notion of autonomy--the idea that we
are beholden to no law except one we impose upon ourselves--has
been considered the truest philosophical expression of human
freedom. But could our commitment to autonomy, as Theodor Adorno
asked, be responsible for the extreme evils that we have witnessed
in modernity? In "Autonomy after Auschwitz," Martin Shuster
explores this difficult question with astonishing theoretical
acumen, examining the precise ways autonomy can lead us down a path
of evil and how it might be prevented from doing so.
Shuster uncovers dangers in the notion of autonomy as it was
originally conceived by Kant. Putting Adorno into dialogue with a
range of European philosophers, notably Kant, Hegel, Horkheimer,
and Habermas--as well as with a variety of contemporary
Anglo-American thinkers such as Richard Rorty, Stanley Cavell, John
McDowell, and Robert Pippin--he illuminates Adorno's important
revisions to this fraught concept and how his different
understanding of autonomous agency, fully articulated, might open
up new and positive social and political possibilities. Altogether,
"Autonomy after Auschwitz" is a meditation on modern evil and human
agency, one that demonstrates the tremendous ethical stakes at the
heart of philosophy.
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