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Adorno and Existence (Hardcover)
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Adorno and Existence (Hardcover)
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From the beginning to the end of his career, the philosopher
Theodor W. Adorno sustained an uneasy but enduring bond with
existentialism. His attitude overall was that of unsparing
criticism, verging on polemic. In Kierkegaard he saw an early
paragon for the late flowering of bourgeois solipsism; in
Heidegger, an impresario for a "jargon of authenticity" cloaking
its idealism in an aura of pseudo-concreteness and neo-romantic
kitsch. Even in the straitened rationalism of Husserl's
phenomenology Adorno saw a vain attempt to break free from the
prison-house of consciousness. Most scholars of critical theory
still regard these philosophical exercises as marginal
works-unfortunate lapses of judgment for a thinker otherwise
celebrated for dialectical mastery. Yet his persistent fascination
with the philosophical canons of existentialism and phenomenology
suggests a connection far more productive than mere antipathy. From
his first published book on Kierkegaard's aesthetic to the mature
studies in negative dialectics, Adorno was forever returning to the
philosophies of bourgeois interiority, seeking the paradoxical
relation between their manifest failure and their hidden promise.
Ultimately, Adorno saw in them an instructive if unsuccessful
attempt to realize his own ambition: to escape the enchanted circle
of idealism so as to grasp "the primacy of the object." Exercises
in "immanent critique," Adorno's writings on Kierkegaard, Husserl,
and Heidegger present us with a photographic negative-a
philosophical portrait of the author himself. In Adorno and
Existence, Peter E. Gordon casts new and unfamiliar light on this
neglected chapter in the history of Continental philosophy.
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