Memory of Thought

by Alexander García Düttmann

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826459005
• ISBN13: 9780826459008
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher