Adorno’s Philosophy of the Nonidentical

Thinking as Resistance

Oshrat C. Silberbusch (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

XII, 205 Seiten

2018
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-07074-8 (ISBN)

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This book focuses on a central notion in Theodor. W. Adorno's philosophy: the nonidentical. The nonidentical is what our conceptual framework cannot grasp and must therefore silence, the unexpressed other of our rational engagement with the world. This study presents the nonidentical as the multidimensional centerpiece of Adorno's reflections on subjectivity, truth, suffering, history, art, morality and politics, revealing the intimate relationship between how and what we think. Adorno's work, written in the shadow of Auschwitz, is a quest for a different way of thinking, one that would give the nonidentical a voice - as the somatic in reasoning, the ephemeral in truth, the aesthetic in cognition, the other in society. Adorno's philosophy of the nonidentical reveals itself not only as a powerful hermeneutics of the past, but also as an important tool for the understanding of modern phenomena such as xenophobia, populism, political polarization, identity politics, and systemic racism.

Oshrat C. Silberbusch holds a PhD in philosophy from Tel Aviv University. She has studied philosophy, German literature, Jewish studies and translation in Paris, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.

Introduction.- The Fate of the Nonidentical: Auschwitz and the Dialectic of Enlightenment.- The Torturable Body: Adorno's Negative Dialectic.- Philosophy of Art, Art of Philosophy: Adorno's Aesthetic Utopia.- Epilogue.

Erscheinungsdatum	14.01.2019
Zusatzinfo	XII, 205 p.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	293 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Adorno • Auschwitz • Dialectic • Eichmann • Heidegger • Kant • radical evil
ISBN-10	3-030-07074-3 / 3030070743
ISBN-13	978-3-030-07074-8 / 9783030070748
Zustand	Neuware