Adorno's Philosophy of the Nonidentical Thinking as Resistance /

• Main Author: Silberbusch, Oshrat C. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Aesthetics.; World War, 1939-1945.; European literature.; History of World War II and the Holocaust.; European Literature.

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 mul...

Table of Contents:

• 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.