Language without soil : Adorno and late philosophical modernity / edited by Gerhard Richter.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Richter, Gerhard, 1967-

Conference Name:

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Interdisciplinary Workshop on Adorno (University of Wisconsin--Madison)

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Interdisciplinary Workshop on Adorno

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969--Congresses.

Adorno, Theodor W.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (311 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This work analyses the implications of Adorno's demand that the task of critical thinking be to imagine a mode of being in the world that occurs in and through a language that has liberated itself from the spell of an alleged historical and political inevitability, what he once tellingly called a 'language without soil'.

Contents:

Introduction / Gerhard Richter

Without soil : a figure in Adorno's thought / Alexander Garcia Duttmann

Taking on the stigma of inauthenticity : Adorno's critique of genuineness / Martin Jay

Suffering injustice : misrecognition as moral injury in critical theory / J.M. Bernstein

Idiosyncrasies : of anti-semitism / Jan Plug

Adorno's lesson plans? : the ethics of (re)education in "the meaning of 'working through the past'" / Jaimey Fisher

Adorno nature Hegel / Theresa M. Kelley

The idiom of crisis : on the historical immanence of language in Adorno / Neil Larsen

Aesthetic theory and nonpropositional truth content in Adorno / Gerhard Richter

The homeland of language : a note on truth and knowledge in Adorno / Mirko Wischke

Of stones and glass houses : minima moralia as critique of transparency / Eric Jarosinski

The polemic of the late work : Adorno's Holderlin / Robert Savage

Twelve anacoluthic theses on Adorno's "Parataxis : on Holderlin's late poetry" / David Farrell Krell

The ephemeral and the absolute : provisional notes to Adorno's Aesthetic theory / Peter Uwe Hohendahl.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Early versions of some of the contributions were initially presented as lectures and seminars in a year-long Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Interdisciplinary Workshop on Adorno, Humanities Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8232-3536-X

0-8232-4807-0