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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Crawford, Ryan, editor.

Vogt, Erik M., editor.

Series:

Value inquiry book series. Holocaust and genocide studies.

Value inquiry book series ; Volume 291.

Value Inquiry Book Series, 0929-8436 ; Volume 291

Holocaust and Genocide Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Genocide.

Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969.

Adorno, Theodor W.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (134 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, [Netherlands] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill-Rodopi, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 post-war 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. Contributors include: Babette Babich, Ryan Crawford, Tom Huhn, Osman Nemli, Ulrich Plass, Erik M. Vogt, James R. Watson, Markus Zöchmeister

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Ryan Crawford and Erik M. Vogt

Adorno’s “The answer is false”: Archaeologies of Genocide / Babette Babich

Shoah, Critique and the Real: Reading Adorno with Freud and Lacan / Markus Zöchmeister

The “Useless Residue of the Western Idea of Art”: Adorno and Lacoue-Labarthe Concerning Art “After” Auschwitz / Erik M. Vogt

Adorno, History “After Auschwitz” / Osman Nemli

Words and Organs / Ryan Crawford

Adorno and the Big Chill: The Cold Intimacy of Genocide and Culture Industry / Tom Huhn

Expropriated Death: Alienation and Nullification in Adorno’s Minima Moralia / Ulrich Plass

Negligible Quantities in the Wrong State of Things Matter / James R. Watson

Index / Ryan Crawford and Erik M. Vogt.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-32180-2

OCLC:

945029689

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004321809 DOI