Elective Affinities: Heidegger and Adorno

In spite of their historical, geographical, 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 of areas, from epistemology to ethics. The first and most comprehensive effort is Hermann Mörchen's Heidegger and Adorno: Examination of a Refused Philosophical Communication (1981). Unfortunately, Mörchen's text has still not been translated into English. This leaves the Anglophone world with preliminary studies such as Fred Dallmayr's Between Freiburg and Frankfurt: Toward a Critical Ontology (1991), wherein one (of eight) chapters pairs Heidegger and Adorno, and Iain Maconald's and Krzysztof Ziarek's Adorno and Heidegger: Philosophical Questions (2008), a short book of essays.

Name thesis:degree_name

PhD

Level thesis:degree_level

Immediate Access

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Philosophy

Year dc:date.available

2010

Author dc:creator

• Kilivris, Michael

Contributors dc:contributor

• James Swindal
• Lanei Rodemeyer
• Daniel Selcer

• Heidegger
• Adorno

Language dc:language

English

Repository record dc:identifier

https://dsc.duq.edu/etd/745

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oai:dsc.duq.edu:etd-1761