The memory of thought
Subtitle: an essay on Heidegger and Adorno
By: Alexander García Düttmann ; translated by Nicholas Walker.
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
Subjects: Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.; Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969.; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Philosophy, German -- 20th century.
Description: The Memory of Thought reconstructs the philosophy of Adorno and Heidegger in the light of the importance that these thinkers attach to two proper names: Auschwitz and Germanien. In Adorno's dialectical thinking, Auschwitz is the name of an incommensurable historical event that seems to put a provisional end to history as a negative totality. In Heidegger's thinking of Being, Germanien is a name inscribed in an historical mission on which the fate of Western civilization seems to depend: it thus becomes the name of a positive totality of history
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [324]-331) and index.