Sartre and Adorno : the dialectics of subjectivity / David Sherman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sherman, David, 1958-

Series:

SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980.

Sartre, Jean-Paul.

Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969.

Adorno, Theodor W.

Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855.

Kierkegaard, Søren.

Subjectivity.

Dialectic.

Phenomenology.

Physical Description:

xii, 328 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2007]

Summary:

Systematic comparison of Sartre and Adorno that focuses on their theories of the subject

Contents:

Introduction

Adorno's relation to the existential and phenomenologicial traditions

Adorno and Kierkegaard

Adorno's critique of Kierkegaard

Adorno's kierkegaardian debt

Adorno and Heidegger

Adorno's critique of Heidegger

Adorno and Heidegger are irreconcilable

Adorno and Husserl

Subjectivity in Sartre's existential phenomenology

The Frankfurt School's critique of Sartre

Adorno on Sartre

Marcuse's critique of being and nothingness

Sartre's relation to his precursors in the phenomenological and existential traditions

Being

Knowing

Death

Sartre's mediating subjectivity

Sartre's decentered subject and freedom

Being-for-others : the ego in formation

Bad faith and the fundamental project

Situated freedom and purified reflection

Adorno's dialectic of subjectivity

The (de)formation of the subject

The dawn of the subject

Science, morality, art

Adorno, Sartre, anti-semitism, psychoanalysis

Subjectivity and negative dialectics

Freedom model

History model

Negative dialectics, phenomenology, and subjectivity.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-314) and index.

ISBN:

0791471152

9780791471159

OCLC:

70265499