Language without soil : Adorno and late philosophical modernity / edited by Gerhard Richter.
This work analyses the implications of Adorno's demand that the task of critical thinking be to imagine a mode of being in the world that occurs in and through a language that has liberated itself from the spell of an alleged historical and political inevitability, what he once tellingly called...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2010.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Click here to view this book |
| Summary: | This work analyses the implications of Adorno's demand that the task of critical thinking be to imagine a mode of being in the world that occurs in and through a language that has liberated itself from the spell of an alleged historical and political inevitability, what he once tellingly called a 'language without soil'. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 301 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0823248070 9780823248070 |