The Memory of Thought reconstructs the philosophy of Adorno and Heidegger in the light of the importance that these thinkers attach to two proper names: Auschwitz and Germanien. In Adorno's dialectical thinking, Auschwitz is the name of an incommensurable historical event that seems to put a provisional end to history as a negative totality. In Heidegger's thinking of Being, Germanien is a name inscribed in an historical mission on which the fate of Western civilization seems to depend: it thus becomes the name of a positive totality of history.
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The Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers series offers authoritative texts from the most important and influential thinkers at work in Continental Philosophy this century. The series ranges across the full spectrum of Continental thought, covering the fields of philosophy, post-structuralism, psychoanalysis and critical theory, and includes key theorists such as Heidegger, Henri Lefebvre, Michel Serres, Nuno Nabais, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Deleuze, Guattari and Alain Badiou. Titles in the series are ideal for students in upper-undergraduate and graduate years but also scholars seeking access to the works of seminal Continental thinkers.
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ISBN
9780826459008
Publisert
2002-05-09
Utgiver
Vendor
Mansell Publishing
Vekt
560 gr
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
138 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
350

Biographical note

Alexander Garcia Duttmann is Professor of Philosophy and Visual Culture at Goldsmiths University of London, UK, and author of The Gift of Language and Memory of Thought, published in the Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers series.