This classic book by Theodor W. Adorno anticipates many of the
themes that have since become common in contemporary philosophy:
the critique of foundationalism, the illusions of idealism and the
end of epistemology. It also foreshadows many of the key ideas that
were developed by Adorno in his most important philosophical works,
including Negative Dialectics. Against Epistemology is based on a
manuscript Adorno originally wrote in Oxford in 1934-37 during his
first years in exile and subsequently reworked in Frankfurt in
1955-56. The text was written as a critique of Husserl's
phenomenology, but the critique of phenomenology is used as the
occasion for a much broader critique of epistemology. Adorno
described this as a 'metacritique' which blends together the
analysis of Husserl's phenomenology as the most advanced instance
of the decay of bourgeois idealism with an immanent critique of the
tensions and contradictions internal to Husserl's thought. The
result is a powerful text which remains one of the most devastating
critiques of Husserl's work ever written and which heralded many of
the ideas that have become commonplace in contemporary philosophy.
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