Adorno : The Recovery of Experience

by Foster, Roger

• ISBN13: 9780791472095
• ISBN10: 0791472094
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-09-06
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

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

Author Biography

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

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments and a Note on Translation	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
The Consequences of Disenchantment	p. 9
Disenchantment and Experience	p. 9
Language and Expression	p. 16
Selbstbesinnung (Self-Awareness)	p. 20
Natural History and Suffering	p. 23
The Limits of Language or How Is Spiritual Experience Possible?	p. 26
Saying the Unsayable	p. 31
Language and Disenchantment	p. 31
Wittgenstein as a Philosopher of Disenchantment	p. 40
The Dissolution of Philosophy	p. 46
Adorno on Saying the Unsayable	p. 51
Adorno and Benjamin on Language as Expression	p. 57
Benjamin on Showing and Saying	p. 57
Benjamin on Language	p. 60
Trauerspiel: Allegory and Constellation	p. 66
Adorno and Philosophical Interpretation	p. 71
Constellation and Natural History	p. 78
Failed Outbreak I: Husserl	p. 89
Introduction	p. 89
The Husserlian Outbreak	p. 91
Logical Absolutism	p. 94
The Intuition of Essences	p. 100
Self-Reflection and Natural History	p. 106
Failed Outbreak II: Bergson	p. 113
Spiritual Affinities	p. 113
Memory and the Concept in Matter and Memory	p. 120
Intuition: the External Demarcation of the Concept	p. 127
Confinement as Habitude	p. 132
The Internal Subversion of the Concept	p. 135
Proust: Experience Regained	p. 139
Introduction	p. 139
The Depths of Experience	p. 141
Involuntary Memory	p. 147
Expression, Suffering, Allegory	p. 151
Metaphor and Contradiction	p. 159
A Contemporary Outbreak Attempt: John McDowell on Mind and World	p. 167
Introduction	p. 167
Disenchantment and Natural-Scientific Understanding	p. 170
McDowell's Epistemological Antinomy	p. 175
Second Nature	p. 180
Domesticated Experience	p. 185
McDowell and Adorno: Final Considerations	p. 191
Conclusion	p. 195
Critical Theory and Experience	p. 195
Communication Theory as an Outbreak Attempt	p. 200
Notes	p. 205
References	p. 223
Index	p. 233
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