Title: The memory of thought
First published: 2002
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
Subjects: German Philosophy, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Philosophy, German, Heidegger, martin, 1889-1976, Adorno, theodor w., 1903-1969
People: Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969)
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: B3279.H49 G28513 2002