Foster Adorno

The Recovery of Experience
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-7949-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 246 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy

Examines the role of experience within Adorno’s philosophy of language and epistemology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Foster, Roger

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments and a Note on Translation
Introduction

1. The Consequences of Disenchantment

Disenchantment and Experience
Language and Expression
Selbstbesinnung (Self-Awareness)
Natural History and Suffering
The Limits of Language or How Is Spiritual Experience Possible?

2. Saying the Unsayable

Language and Disenchantment
Wittgenstein as a Philosopher of Disenchantment
The Dissolution of Philosophy
Adorno on Saying the Unsayable

3. Adorno and Benjamin on Language as Expression

Benjamin on Showing and Saying
Benjamin on Language
Trauerspiel: Allegory and Constellation
Adorno and Philosophical Interpretation
Constellation and Natural History

4. Failed Outbreak I: Husserl

Introduction
The Husserlian Outbreak
Logical Absolutism
The Intuition of Essences
Self-Reflection and Natural History

5. Failed Outbreak II: Bergson

Spiritual Affinities
Memory and the Concept in Matter and Memory
Intuition: the External Demarcation of the Concept
Confinement as Habitude
The Internal Subversion of the Concept

6. Proust: Experience Regained

Introduction
The Depths of Experience
Involuntary Memory
Expression, Suffering, Allegory
Metaphor and Contradiction

7. A Contemporary Outbreak Attempt: John McDowell on Mind and World

Introduction
Disenchantment and Natural-Scientific Understanding
McDowell’s Epistemological Antinomy
Second Nature
Domesticated Experience
McDowell and Adorno: Final Considerations

Conclusion

Critical Theory and ExperienceCommunication
Theory as an Outbreak Attempt

Notes
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Roger Foste teaches philosophy at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, the City University of New York.