Adorno's Negative Dialectic by Brian O'Connor - ISBN: 9780262651080
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An analysis of how Adorno’s “pure” philosophy can be seen to provide a justification of the rationality required by critical theory.

Adorno's Negative Dialectic

Philosophy and the Possibility of Critical Rationality

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    224 pages

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    12 August 2005

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Summary

The purely philosophical concerns of Theodor W. Adorno’s negative dialectic would seem to be far removed from the concreteness of critical theory; Adorno’s philosophy considers perhaps the most traditional subject of “pure” philosophy, the structure of experience, whereas critical theory examines specific aspects of society. But, as Brian O’Connor demonstrates in this highly original interpretation of Adorno’s philosophy, the negative dialectic can be seen as the theoretical foundation of the…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780262651080
ISBN-10:0262651084
Author:Brian O'Connor
Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:MIT Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:224
Release Date:12 August 2005
Weight:318g
Dimensions:229mm x 152mm x 13mm
Series:Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought
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Critics Review

“Brian O’Connor has crafted a timely and robust contribution to the ongoing reception of Adorno’s work. He provides a much needed and exceedingly lucid treatment of Adorno’s central concerns with the nature of the object of experience and the shape of subjectivity, with specific reference to the achievements of Kant and Hegel, around and within which Adorno situated his own project.”–Tom Huhn, School of Visual Arts, New York “Brian O’Connor has produced an elegant and persuasive defense of the epistemological core of Adorno’s philosophy: the priority of the object for the possibility of experience. His analysis of Adorno’s transcendental strategy is novel and challenging. An invaluable contribution to Adorno studies.”–J.M. Bernstein, New School for Social Research

About The Author

Brian O'Connor

Brian O’Connor is Senior Lecturer in the School of Philosophy at University College Dublin.

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