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What Theodor W. Adorno says cannot be separated from how he says it. By the same token, what he thinks cannot be isolated from how he thinks it. The central aim of Richter's book is to examine how these basic yet far-reaching assumptions teach us to think with Adorno-both alongside him and in relation to his diverse contexts and constellations. These contexts and constellations range from aesthetic theory to political critique, from the problem of judgment to the difficulty of inheriting a tradition, from the primacy of the object to the question of how to lead a right life within a wrong one.Richter vividly shows how Adorno's highly suggestive-yet often overlooked-concept of the "uncoercive gaze" designates a specific kind of comportment in relation to an object of critical analysis: It moves close to the object and tarries with it while struggling to decipher the singularities and non-identities that are lodged within it, whether the object is an idea, a thought, a concept, a text, a work of art, an experience, or a problem of political or sociological theory.Thinking with Adorno's uncoercive gaze not only means following the fascinating paths of his own work; it also means extending hospitality to the ghostly voices of others. As this book shows, Adorno is best understood as a thinker in dialogue, whether with long-deceased predecessors in the German tradition such as Kant and Hegel, with writers such as Kafka, with contemporaries such as Benjamin and Arendt, or with philosophical voices that succeeded him, such as those of Derrida and Agamben.

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Publié par

Fordham University Press

Date de parution

02 juillet 2019

EAN13

9780823284054

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

1 Mo

Literary theory Western philosophy

Thinking with Adorno

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I N V E N T I N G W R I T I N G T H E O R Y Jacques Lezra and Paul North, series editors

Gerhard Richter

Thinking with Adorno

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Introduction: he Art of Reading Adorno and te Uncoercive Gaze Buried Possibility: Adorno and Arendt on Tradition he Ineritance of te Constellation: Adorno and Hegel Judging by Refraining from Judgment: Adorno’s Artwork and ItsEinordnunghe Literary Artwork between Word and Concept: Adorno and Agamben Reading Kafka he Artwork witout Cardinal Direction: Notes on Orientation in Adorno False Life, Living On: Adorno wit Derrida Conclusion: A Kind of LeaveTaking

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Thinking with Adorno

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