Adorno’s lectures on ontology and dialectics from 1960-61 comprise
his most sustained and systematic analysis of Heidegger’s
philosophy. They also represent a continuation of a project that he
shared with Walter Benjamin - ‘to demolish Heidegger’. Following
the publication of the latter’s magnum opus _Being and Time_, and
long before his notorious endorsement of Nazism at Freiburg
University, both Adorno and Benjamin had already rejected
Heidegger’s fundamental ontology.
After his return to Germany from his exile in the United States,
Adorno became Heidegger’s principal intellectual adversary, engaging
more intensively with his work than with that of any other
contemporary philosopher. Adorno regarded Heidegger as an extremely
limited thinker and for that reason all the more dangerous. In these
lectures, he highlights Heidegger’s increasing fixation with the
concept of ontology to show that the doctrine of being can only truly
be understood through a process of dialectical thinking. Rather than
exploiting overt political denunciation, Adorno deftly highlights the
connections between Heidegger’s philosophy and his political views
and, in doing so, offers an alternative plea for enlightenment and
rationality.
These seminal lectures, in which Adorno dissects the thought of one of
the most influential twentieth-century philosophers, will appeal to
students and scholars in philosophy and critical theory and throughout
the humanities and social sciences.
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9780745694900
Publisert
2018
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Engelsk
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