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Adorno and the Ban on Images (Hardcover)
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Adorno and the Ban on Images (Hardcover)
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This book upends some of the myths that have come to surround the
work of the philosopher Theodor W. Adorno - not least amongst them,
his supposed fatalism. Sebastian Truskolaski argues that Adorno's
writings allow us to address what is arguably the central challenge
of modern philosophy: how to picture a world beyond suffering and
injustice without, at the same time, betraying its vital impulse.
By re-appraising Adorno's writings on politics, philosophy, and
art, this book reconstructs this notoriously difficult author's
overall project from a radically new perspective (Adorno's famous
'standpoint of redemption'), and brings his central concerns to
bear on the problems of today. On the one hand, this means reading
Adorno alongside his principal interlocutors (including Kant, Marx
and Benjamin). On the other hand, it means asking how his secular
brand of social criticism can serve to safeguard the image of a
better world - above all, when the invocation of this image occurs
alongside Adorno's recurrent reference to the Old Testament ban on
making images of God. By reading Adorno in this iconoclastic way,
Adorno and the Ban on Images contributes to current debates about
Utopia that have come to define political visions across the
political spectrum.
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