Arendt and Adorno
Subtitle: political and philosophical investigations
By: edited by Lars Rensmann and Samir Gandesha
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Stanford, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780804775397; 9780804775403
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Philosophy; Political science; Modern Philosophy
Description: Hannah Arendt and Theodor W. Adorno, two of the most influential political philosophers and theorists of the twentieth century, were contemporaries with similar interests, backgrounds, and a shared experience of exile. Yet until now, no book has brought them together. In this first comparative study of their work, leading scholars discuss divergences, disclose surprising affinities, and find common ground between the two thinkers. This pioneering work recovers the relevance of Arendt and Adorno for contemporary political theory and philosophy and lays the foundation for a critical understanding of political modernity: from universalistic claims for political freedom to the abyss of genocidal politics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Understanding political modernity : rereading Arendt and Adorno in comparative perspective / Samir Gandesha and Lars Rensmann; title: Arendt and Adorno : the elusiveness of the particular and the Benjaminian moment / Seyla Benhabib; title: Political modernism : the new, revolution, and civil disobedience in Arendt and Adorno / J.M. Bernstein; title: From the critique of identity to plurality in politics : reconsidering Adorno and Arendt / Dana Villa; title: Passion lost, passion regained : how Arendt's anthropology intersects with Adorno's theory of the subject / Dieter Thomä; title: Grounding cosmopolitics : rethinking crimes against humanity and global political theory with Arendt and Adorno / Lars Rensmann; title: Debating human rights, law and subjectivity : Arendt, Adorno and critical theory / Robert Fine; title: Blindness and insight : the conceptual Jew in Adorno and Arendt's post-Holocaust reflections on the antisemitic question / Jonathan Judaken; title: The paralysis of judgment : Arendt and Adorno on antisemitism and the modern condition / Julia Schulze Wessel and Lars Rensmann; title: Pariahs against their will : Adorno's and Arendt's' reflections on the place of the intellectual / Dirk Auer; title: Homeless philosophy : the exile of philosophy and the philosophy of exile in Arendt and Adorno / Samir Gandesha.