| Description |
1 online resource (x, 199 pages) |
| Series |
Continuum studies in continental philosophy |
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Continuum studies in continental philosophy.
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| Contents |
Cathecting philosophy -- Rewriting the dialectic -- Writing it new -- Narrative and its discontents |
| Summary |
Adorno's Poetics of Critique is a critical study of the Marxist culture-critic Theodor W. Adorno, a founding member of the Frankfurt school and widely regarded today as its most brilliant exponent. Steven Helmling is centrally concerned with Adorno's notoriously difficult writing, a feature most commentators acknowledge only to set it aside on the way to an expository account of 'what Adorno is saying'. By contrast, Adorno's complex writing is the central focus of this study, which includes detailed analysis of Adorno's most complex texts, in particular his most famous and complicated work, co-authored with Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment. Helmling argues that Adorno's key motifs - dialectic, concept, negation, immanent critique, constellation - are prescriptions not merely for critical thinking, but also for critical writing. For Adorno the efficacy of critique is conditioned on how the writing of critique is written. Both in theory and in practice, Adorno urges a 'poetics of critique' that is every bit as critical as anything else in his 'critical theory'"--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-193) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969
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| SUBJECT |
Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969 fast |
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Adorno, Theodor W. swd |
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Critical theory.
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critical theories (dialectical critiques)
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critical theory (sociological concept)
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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Critical theory
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Kritische Theorie
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2008034120 |
| ISBN |
9780826440846 |
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0826440843 |
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1472546075 |
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9781472546074 |
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1282870688 |
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9781282870680 |
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9786612870682 |
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6612870680 |
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