Adorno's poetics of critique Steven Helmling.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Helmling, Steven, 1947- author.

Series:

Continuum studies in continental philosophy.

Continuum studies in continental philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969.

Adorno, Theodor W.

Critical theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (210 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London New York Continuum 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Adorno's Poetics of Critique is a critical study of the Marxist culture-critic Theodor W. Adorno, a founding member of the Frankfurt school and widely regarded today as its most brilliant exponent. Steven Helmling is centrally concerned with Adorno's notoriously difficult writing, a feature most commentators acknowledge only to set it aside on the way to an expository account of 'what Adorno is saying'. By contrast, Adorno's complex writing is the central focus of this study, which includes detailed analysis of Adorno's most complex texts, in particular his most famous and complicated work, co-authored with Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment. Helmling argues that Adorno's key motifs - dialectic, concept, negation, immanent critique, constellation - are prescriptions not merely for critical thinking, but also for critical writing. For Adorno the efficacy of critique is conditioned on how the writing of critique is written. Both in theory and in practice, Adorno urges a 'poetics of critique' that is every bit as critical as anything else in his 'critical theory.

Contents:

Cathecting philosophy

Rewriting the dialectic

Writing it new

Narrative and its discontents

Introduction: Adorno's Poetics of Critique

1. Cathecting Philosophy

2. Rewriting the Dialectic

3. Writing it New

4. Narrative and its Discontents

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [187]-193) and index

ISBN:

9786612870682

9781472546074

1472546075

9781282870680

1282870688

9780826440846

0826440843

OCLC:

676700708