"Dreams are as black as death." —Theodor W. Adorno Adorno was
fascinated by his dreams and wrote them down throughout his life. He
envisaged publishing a collection of them although in the event no
more than a few appeared in his lifetime. Dream Notes offers a
selection of Adornos writings on dreams that span the last twenty-five
years of his life. Readers of Adorno who are accustomed to
high-powered reflections on philosophy, music and culture may well
find them disconcerting: they provide an amazingly frank and
uninhibited account of his inner desires, guilt feelings and
anxieties. Brothel scenes, torture and executions figure prominently.
They are presented straightforwardly, at face value. No attempt is
made to interpret them, to relate them to the events of his life, to
psychoanalyse them, or to establish any connections with the principal
themes of his philosophy. Are they fiction, autobiography or an
attempt to capture a pre-rational, quasi-mythic state of
consciousness? No clear answer can be given. Taken together they
provide a highly consistent picture of a dimension of experience that
is normally ignored, one that rounds out and deepens our knowledge of
Adorno while retaining something of the enigmatic quality that
energized his own thought.
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ISBN
9780745694610
Publisert
2018
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1. utgave
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Wiley Professional, Reference & Trade
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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