Adorno's Nietzschean narratives
Subtitle: critiques of ideology, readings of Wagner
By: Karin Bauer.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
Subjects: Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969.; Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.
Description: "This is the first book to provide a broad and comparative analysis of the relationship of these two influential thinkers to one another. Defying conventional appropriations of Nietzsche's and Adorno's thought, Bauer establishes crucial links between different traditions of critical thought, suggesting elective and selective affinities in the pursuit of a radicalized critique of ideology and culture.

Against Habermas, Bauer argues that Nietzsche did not abandon the project of modernity, but rather achieved its most radical confrontation with the myths of the Enlightenment. Bauer's inquiry into Nietzsche's and Adorno's critiques of rationality, historicism, metaphysics, and Bildung culminates in an exposition of their readings of Wagner, who serves as a medium and supplement for their critiques of modern culture."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-275) and index.