Adorno and the concept of genocide / edited by Ryan Crawford, Erik M. Vogt.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Crawford, Ryan, editor.

Series:

• Value inquiry book series. Holocaust and genocide studies
• Value inquiry book series ; volume 291. Holocaust and genocide studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969.
• Genocide.

Physical Description:

xii, 122 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill-Rodopi, [2016]

Summary:

Holocaust and Genocide Studies (HGS) is a series committed to philosophical examinations of the Holocaust and genocide prospectively and retrospectively. Adorno and the Concept of Genocide examines the legacy of Critical Theory's foremost authority on life 'after Auschwitz.' As a leading member of the Frankfurt School and one of postwar Europe's most important public intellectuals, Adorno's reflections on genocide and its relation to contemporary society achieved a level of urgency and insight that remains unparalleled to this day. Assembled here for the first time in English is a wide-ranging collection of essays on the seminal significance of the concept of genocide for Adorno's thought, as well as the enduring relevance of that thought for our own time. The Value Inquiry Book Series (VIBS) is an international scholarly program, founded in 1992 Robert Ginsberg, that publishes philosophical books in all areas of value inquiry, including social and political thought ethics, applied philosophy, aesthetics, feminism, pragmatism, personalism, religious values, medical and health values, values in education, values in science and technology, humanistic psychology, cognitive science, formal axiology, history of philosophy, post-communist thought, peace theory, law and society, and theory of culture. Book jacket.

Contents:

• 1 Adorno's "The answer is false": Archaeologies of Genocide / Babette Babich Babich, Babette 1
• 2 Shoah, Critique and the Real: Reading Adomo with Freud and Lacan / Markus Zöchmeister Zöchmeister, Markus 18
• 3 The "Useless Residue of the Western Idea of Art": Adorno and Lacoue-Labarthe Concerning Art "After" Auschwitz / Erik M. Vogt Vogt, Erik M. 29
• 4 Adorno, History "After Auschwitz" / Osman Nemli Nemli, Osman 46
• 5 Words and Organs / Ryan Crawford Crawford, Ryan 61
• 6 Adorno and the Big Chill: The Cold Intimacy of Genocide and Culture Industry / Tom Huhn Huhn, Tom 73
• 7 Expropriated Death: Alienation and Nullification in Adorno's Minima Moralia / Ulrich Plass Plass, Ulrich 84
• 8 Negligible Quantities in the Wrong State of Things Matter / James R. Watson Watson, James R. 100.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Adorno and the concept of genocide

ISBN:

• 9789004321472
• 9004321470

OCLC:

945029689