Adorno and Existence

by Peter E. Gordon

Book Overview

From the beginning to the end of his career, the philosopher Theodor W. Adorno sustained an uneasy but enduring bond with existentialism. His attitude overall was that of unsparing criticism, verging on polemic. In Kierkegaard he saw an early paragon for the late flowering of bourgeois solipsism; in Heidegger, an impresario for a "jargon of authenticity" cloaking its idealism in an aura of pseudo-concreteness and neo-romantic kitsch. Even in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674986865
• ISBN13: 9780674986862
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.2" x 8.0"