Adorno's Positive Dialectic
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 4, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780521813938
Subjects: Aesthetics; Literary theory; Western philosophy, from c 1900 -; Logic; Philosophy; History & Surveys - Modern; Adorno, Theodor W; Philosophy / History, Criticism, Surveys; 1903-1969; Adorno, Theodor W.,
First sentence: In this chapter we show how Adorno regards enlightenment as regressing into myth.
Description: "This book offers a radically new interpretation of the work of Theodor Adorno. In contrast to the conventional view that Adorno's is in essence a critical philosophy. Yvonne Sherratt traces systematically a utopian thesis that pervades all the major aspects of Adorno's thought." "She places Adorno's work in the context of German Idealist and later Marxist and Freudian traditions, and then analyses his key works to show how the aesthetic, epistemological, psychological, historical, and social thought interconnect to form a utopian image." "The book will be eagerly sought out by students and specialists in philosophy, social and political theory, intellectual history, literary theory, and cultural studies."--Jacket.