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Showing 1 to 20 of 136 for “"adorno"”.
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Elective Affinities: Heidegger and Adorno
… and intellectual proximity, Heidegger and Adorno never entered into dialogue with one another. Heidegger claimed not to have read Adorno, while Adorno wrote only polemically on Heidegger. In the past thirty years, scholars have attempted to initiate communication between the two in a number …
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Philosophical Sundials: Adorno and the Lyric
… theory of the lyric in the work of Theodor W. Adorno. The second entails an engagement with that theory through a collection of original lyric poems. The three case studies of the critical apparatus track how it is that Adorno’s conception of the lyric serves as a metonymic cipher for his work …
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Freedom and Nature in McDowell and Adorno
… the Frankfurt School critical theorist Theodor Adorno. Adorno is, I argue, able to secure the appropriate connection between reason and freedom, and thus what McDowell himself describes as a distinctively human orientation towards the world. Convinced McDowellians should therefore be motivated …
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Adorno, Aesthetics, and Critical Theory Beyond Europe
… sociological backdrop against which Theodor W. Adorno conceives of aesthetic theory in his late work, asking how such a theory may provide an opening for rethinking the role of critical theory beyond Europe. I begin by tracing Adorno’s thought back to the German Idealist tradition, foregrounding …
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Politics and the Aesthetic Animal: Aristotle and Adorno
… human being, and argues that the work of T.W. Adorno can be drawn upon to recover this conception’s neglected promise. By reading Aristotle’s oft-cited claim that ‘the human being is by nature a political animal’ in light of his works on biology and poetics, I find that Aristotle displaces …
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Twelve-Tone Identity: Adorno Reading Schoenberg through Kant
Theodor Adorno’s view of Arnold Schoenberg can be seen in light of his criticism of Immanuel Kant. Critiquing Kant’s concept of Enlightenment and his dualist philosophy, Adorno also critiques common misconceptions about Kant's work in bourgeois society. Similarly, in Schoenberg's oeuvre Adorno …
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Adorno, Foucault, and the history of the present
… help of the conceptual resources that Theodor Adorno and Michel Foucault provide us with. Accordingly, whereas the few attempts that have been made been to compare their works remain inadequate, partial, or simply out-dated, my thesis offers a detailed and comprehensive appraisal of both the …
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The Ends of Utopian Thinking: Marx, Adorno, Bloch
… and culminates in the works of Theodor W. Adorno, specifically in his ‘Utopieverbot’ (prohibition of envisaging a utopian society). I argue that this Utopieverbot facilitated the disappearance of utopian thinking in Critical Theory, and furthermore, that it brought this system of thought to …
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Transient Constellations: Adorno, Benjamin, and the Actuality of Idealism
… dissertation examines the thought of Theodor W. Adorno and Walter Benjamin in critical constellation with German Idealism, specifically G.W.F. Hegel and F.W.J. Schelling. I explore how Adorno and Benjamin deconstruct and refashion Idealist notions, while also providing the post-Idealist …
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Adorno and the Language of the Intellectual in Exile
<p>Adorno’s experience as an exile influenced his two works <em>Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments </em>(1944)<em> </em>and <em>Minima Moralia: Reflections from a Damaged Life </em>(1951). These works embody the adversity Adorno wrestled with in his personal life and voice a …
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Adorno, Hegel and the Philosophical Origins of Classical Social Theory
… of my dissertation is that the work of Theodor Adorno offers a valuable framework for reevaluating the philosophical heritage of classical social theory. In his ongoing engagement with the philosophy of German Idealism, and with Hegel in particular, Adorno’s philosophical, sociological, and …
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Aesthetic Pedagogy: Kierkegaard and Adorno on the Communication of Possibility
This dissertation focuses on Adorno's appropriative reading of Kierkegaard. Adorno interprets Kierkegaard's notion of the aesthetic as an active philosophical principal. He finds this principle to be at work throughout Kierkegaard's authorship as the means of the justification of the particular and …
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Is Wrong Life All That Is Possible? Adorno and Aquinas on Ethics
Theodor Adorno's ethical thought is encapsulated in his famous aphorism "Wrong life cannot be lived rightly." This dissertation explicates this alarming declaration, revealing the metaphysical, epistemological, and anthropological analyses that place Adorno's ethical thought into this intractable …
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Ethics and affects: A critique of social intelligibility with Adorno, Butler and Spivak
… a critique of social intelligibility with Adorno, Butler and Spivak I offer a critical analysis that can help to disentangle the reliance of social legitimacy on social intelligibility. I maintain that legitimacy and intelligibility are woven into a kind of double-bind, wherein the …
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THE “PERPETUAL PRESENT” OF POLITICAL MODERNITY: ADORNO, ARENDT AND THE POSSIBILITY OF THE NEW
… research, I turn to the work of Theodor W. Adorno and Hannah Arendt to explicate the structure of political modernity’s failure and to demonstrate that there is another possibility contained within the modern world. More specifically, I will demonstrate that the thought on exemplary …
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At the limit of the concept: logic and history in Hegel, Schelling, and Adorno
… at Hegel by F. W. J. Schelling and Theodor W. Adorno. I argue that both their criticisms illuminate our understanding of the metaphysical status of Hegel’s thought and expose the surreptitious means by which Hegel overextends the concept. The value of Adorno’s and Schelling’s reading of Hegel …
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