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Can One Live after Auschwitz? - A Philosophical Reader (Paperback)
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Can One Live after Auschwitz? - A Philosophical Reader (Paperback)
Series: Cultural Memory in the Present
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This is a comprehensive collection of readings from the work of
Theodor Adorno, one of the most influential German thinkers of the
twentieth century. What took place in Auschwitz revokes what Adorno
termed the "Western legacy of positivity," the innermost substance
of traditional philosophy. The prime task of philosophy then
remains to reflect on its own failure, its own complicity in such
events. Yet in linking the question of philosophy to historical
occurrence, Adorno seems not to have abandoned his paradoxical,
life-long hope that philosophy might not be entirely closed to the
idea of redemption. He prepares for an altogether different praxis,
one no longer conceived in traditionally Marxist terms but rather
to be gleaned from "metaphysical experience." In this collection,
Adorno's literary executor has assembled the definitive
introduction to his thinking. Its five sections anatomize the range
of Adorno's concerns: "Toward a New Categorical Imperative,"
"Damaged Life," "Administered World, Reified Thought," "Art, Memory
of Suffering," and "A Philosophy That Keeps Itself Alive." A
substantial number of Adorno's writings included appear here in
English for the first time. This collection comes with an eloquent
introduction from Rolf Tiedemann, the literary executor of Adorno's
work.
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