Adorno, Heidegger, and the Politics of Truth

Adorno, Heidegger, and the Politics of Truth
Author: Lambert Zuidervaart
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2024-02-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1438496427

An elusive and complex idea of truth lies at the center of Theodor Adorno's thought. Yet he never spells out what it is. Through close readings of Negative Dialectics, Aesthetic Theory, and related course lectures, Lambert Zuidervaart reconstructs Adorno's conception of truth, contrasts it with the conceptions of Martin Heidegger and Michel Foucault, and explores its relevance for contemporary philosophy, art, and politics. Adorno regards truth as a dynamic constellation in which various dialectical polarities intersect. The most decisive polarity, Zuidervaart argues, occurs between society as it has developed and the historical possibility of a completely transformed world. Critically reconstructed, Adorno's conception of truth can help inspire hopeful critiques of an allegedly post-truth society.

Politics and Truth

Politics and Truth
Author: Theresa Man Ling Lee
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1997-08-28
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780791435045

Considers the contested concept of truth in contemporary politics in light of the postmodernist challenge to Enlightenment ideals and examines the treatment of truth in an unusual lineup of thinkers ranging from Plato and Hobbes to Weber, Foucault, and Arendt.

Adorno and Heidegger

Adorno and Heidegger
Author: Iain Macdonald
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2008
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780804756358

This collection of essays explores the conflictual history and future implications of two important traditions of twentieth-century European thought: the critical theory of Theodor W. Adorno and the ontology of Martin Heidegger.

Adorno's Poetics of Form

Adorno's Poetics of Form
Author: Josh Robinson
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2018-05-22
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1438469853

Adorno's Poetics of Form is the first book-length examination of the elusive deployment of the concept of form in Adorno's writings on art and literature, and the first monograph to offer a comprehensive account of the relation of these writings to his broader philosophical project. It examines form within the constellation of concepts that exist around it, considering how it appears when seen in conjunction with and in opposition to content, expression, genre, and material. Illuminated from these angles, form is revealed as the site of a complex web of dynamic conceptual interactions. The book thus offers a resolution to a problem in Adorno's work that has remained unsolved for several decades, and in doing so sets out the consequences of Adorno's poetics for literary and critical theory today.

The Jargon of Authenticity

The Jargon of Authenticity
Author: Theodor W. Adorno
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1973
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780810106574

A philosophical critique of Heidegger and modern German thought that focuses on the validity of existentialist jargon and the relationship between language and truth. Bibliogs.

Adorno, Politics, and the Aesthetic Animal

Adorno, Politics, and the Aesthetic Animal
Author: Caleb J. Basnett
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2021
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1487541449

Reconstructing the philosophy of T.W. Adorno, this book offers a critical theory of the human/animal distinction and its relation to politics.

Adorno's Theory of Philosophical and Aesthetic Truth

Adorno's Theory of Philosophical and Aesthetic Truth
Author: Owen Hulatt
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2016-09-27
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0231542208

In Adorno's Theory of Philosophical and Aesthetic Truth, Owen Hulatt undertakes an original reading of Theodor W. Adorno's epistemology and its material underpinnings, deepening our understanding of his theories of truth, art, and the nonidentical. Hulatt's novel interpretation casts Adorno's theory of philosophical and aesthetic truth as substantially unified, supporting the thinker's claim that both philosophy and art are capable of being true. For Adorno, truth is produced when rhetorical "texture" combines with cognitive "performance," leading to the breakdown of concepts that mediate the experience of the consciousness. Both philosophy and art manifest these features, although philosophy enacts these conceptual issues directly, while art does so obliquely. Hulatt builds a robust argument for Adorno's claim that concepts ineluctably misconstrue their objects. He also puts the still influential thinker into conversation with Hegel, Husserl, Frazer, Sohn-Rethel, Benjamin, Strawson, Dahlhaus, Habermas, and Caillois, among many others.

Dialectic of Enlightenment

Dialectic of Enlightenment
Author: Max Horkheimer
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Total Pages: 282
Release: 1993
Genre: Antisemitism
ISBN:

A major study of modern culture, Dialectic of Enlightenment for many years led an underground existence among the homeless Left of the German Federal Republic until its definitive publication in West Germany in 1969. Originally composed by its two distinguished authors during their Californian exile in 1944, the book can stand as a monument of classic German progressive social theory in the twentieth century.>

Social Philosophy after Adorno

Social Philosophy after Adorno
Author: Lambert Zuidervaart
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 21
Release: 2007-07-09
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1139464531

Lambert Zuidervaart examines what is living and what is dead in the social philosophy of Theodor W. Adorno, the most important philosopher and social critic in Germany after World War II. When he died in 1969, Adorno's successors abandoned his critical-utopian passions. Habermas in particular, rejected or ignored Adorno's central insights on the negative effects of capitalism and new technologies upon nature and human life. Zuidervaart reclaims Adorno's insights from Habermasian neglect while taking up legitimate Habermasian criticisms. He also addresses the prospects for radical and democratic transformations of an increasingly globalized world. The book proposes a provocative social philosophy 'after Adorno'.