Can One Live After Auschwitz? - A Philosophical Reader

Zusatztext " Can One Live after Auschwitz? provides a very useful cross-section of Adorno's work on the task of thought after the Holocaust." Informationen zum Autor Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969) was a prominent member of the Frankfurt School and one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. Rolf Tiedemann is the literary executor of Adorno and of Walter Benjamin and the editor of the German editions of Adorno's collected works and his posthumous writings. Klappentext "Can One Live after Auschwitz? provides a very useful cross-section of Adorno's work on the task of thought after the Holocaust."--The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory "Despite his conviction that no philosophy could presume to approach an event like Auschwitz, this collection of Adorno's essays and aphorisms attests to his extraordinary effort to regard human suffering as the precondition of thought and as the undoing of all claims to totality. Adorno's cultural criticism emerges here as a moral philosophy for a 'world that has outlived its own demise.'" --Anson Rabinbach, Princeton University Zusammenfassung What took place in Auschwitz revokes what Adorno termed the "Western legacy of positivity", the innermost substance of traditional philosophy. This text anatomizes the range of Adorno's concerns, including sections such as "Art, Memory of Suffering", and "Damaged Life".

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• Authors: Theodor Adorno, Theodor W. Adorno, Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno, ADORNO THEODOR W, Adorno Theodor
• Assisted by: Rolf Tiedemann (Editor), Rodney Livingstone (Translation)
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.05.2003
• EAN: 9780804731447
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-3144-7
• No. of pages: 560
• Series: Cultural Memory in the Present; Cultural Memory in the Present
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works