Adorno's Positive Dialectic

by: Yvonne Sherratt

Adorno's Positive Dialectic
Author: Yvonne Sherratt

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Format: Hardback

Publication date: 10 October 2002

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ISBN: 052181393X ISBN 13: 9780521813938 This product is an E-publication based on: Adorno's Positive Dialectic (2005)

Adorno's Positive Dialectic by Yvonne Sherratt

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This book offers an interpretation of the work of Theodor Adorno. In contrast to the conventional view that Adorno's is in essence a critical philosophy, Yvonne Sherratt traces systematically a utopian thesis that pervades all the major aspects of Adorno's thought. She places Adorno's work in the context of German Idealist and later Marxist and Freudian traditions, and then analyses his key works to show how the aesthetic, epistemological, psychological, historical and sociological thought interconnect to form a utopian image. The book will be eagerly sought out by students and specialists in philosophy, social and political theory, intellectual history, literary theory and cultural studies. Top page

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Publisher & Imprint: Cambridge University Press

City: Cambridge

Pages: 268

More info: height 228 mm width 152 mm weight 495 gr thickness 21 mm

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Age recommended: Professional and scholarly

Subject Indexing & Classification Dewey:(DC21) 193 Library of Congress Subject: B3199.A34 S53 2002 Adorno, Theodor W.,--1903-1969

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Summary Adorno's Positive Dialectic Preface; Abbreviations; General introduction; Prelude to Adorno's Intellectual Tradition: Prelude I: Adorno's intellectual tradition: German philosophy; Prelude II: Adorno's intellectual tradition: Sigmund Freud; Part I. Negative Thesis: The Decline of Enlightenment: 1. The decline of subjectivity: the instincts; 2. The decline of subjectivity: narcissism; 3. The decline of knowledge acquisition; 4. Knowledge acquisition: a negative solution; Part II. Positive Thesis: The Redemption of Enlightenment: 5. The aesthetic: aura; 6. Knowledge acquisition: an aesthetic form; 7. A positive dialectic of knowledge acquisition; 8. A positive dialectic of subjectivity: the instincts; 9. A positive dialectic of subjectivity: the structure of the self; Concluding comments; Bibliography; Index. Top page

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