Dialectics of the Body Corporeality in the Philosophy of Theodor Adorno
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2014
/ Engelsk
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ISBN
9781138011700
Published
2014-08-12
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight
453 gr
Height
229 mm
Width
152 mm
Age
U, G, 05, 01
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Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
206
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<p>"Lisa Yun Lee's new scholarly study, <em>Dialectics of the</em><em>Body</em> signals a welcome shift in the U.S. reception of this challenging theorist." -- Jamie Daniel, <em>In These</em><em>Times</em></p>
The study of Theodor Adorno has largely ignored or dismissed the enigmatic and provocative moments in his writing on the body. Dialectics of the Body corrects this gap by arguing that Adorno's analysis of reified society emanates and returns to the body and that hope and desire are present throughout Adorno's philosophy.
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Introduction; Chapter 1 Repressing the Body; Chapter 1a Avoiding the Sirens: Women in the Dialectic of Enlightenment; Chapter 2 Interrogating Philosophy: The Bared Breasts Incident; Chapter 2a Entanglement: Remembering Gretel Karplus Adorno; Chapter 3 “The Most Forgotten Alien Land”: Adorno’s Essay on Kafka; Chapter 3a Reading the Body: Franz Kafka’s “In the Penal Colony”; Chapter 4 Feminist Negative Dialectics: Dialectical Materialism and the “Transfigured Body”; conclu Conclusion;
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Product details
ISBN
9781138011700
Published
2014-08-12
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight
453 gr
Height
229 mm
Width
152 mm
Age
U, G, 05, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
206
Author