Sartre and Adorno: The Dialectics of Subjectivity

by Sherman, David

• ISBN13: 9780791471166
• ISBN10: 0791471160
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-06-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

Focusing on the notion of the subject in Sartre's and Adorno's philosophies, David Sherman argues that they offer complementary accounts of the subject that circumvent the excesses of its classical formation, yet are study enough to support a concept of political agency, which is lacking in both poststructuralism and second-generation critical theory. Sherman uses Sartre's firstperson, phenomenological standpoint and Adorno's third-person, critical theoretical standpoint, each of which implicitly incorporates and then builds toward the other, to represent the necessary poles of any emancipatory social analysis. Book jacket.

Author Biography

David Sherman is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Montana at Missoula and is the coauthor (with Leo Rauch) of Hegel's Phenomenology of Self-Consciousness: Text and Commentary, also published by SUNY Press

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Abbreviations Used in the Text and Notes	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Adorno's Relation to the Existential and Phenomenological Traditions	p. 13
Adorno and Kierkegaard	p. 17
Adorno's Critique of Kierkegaard	p. 18
Adorno's Kierkegaardian Debt	p. 26
Adorno and Heidegger	p. 37
Adorno's Critique of Heidegger	p. 38
Adorno and Heidegger Are Irreconcilable	p. 46
Adorno and Husserl	p. 59
Subjectivity in Sartre's Existential Phenomenology	p. 69
The Frankfurt School's Critique of Sartre	p. 75
Adorno on Sartre	p. 75
Marcuse's Critique of Being and Nothingness	p. 78
Sartre's Relation to His Predecessors in the Phenomenological and Existential Traditions	p. 87
Being	p. 87
Knowing	p. 97
Death	p. 106
Sartre's Mediating Subjectivity	p. 109
Sartre's Decentered Subject and Freedom	p. 110
Being-for-Others: The Ego in Formation	p. 122
Bad Faith and the Fundamental Project	p. 135
Situated Freedom and Purified Reflection	p. 150
Adorno's Dialectic of Subjectivity	p. 173
The (De)Formation of the Subject	p. 181
The Dawn of the Subject	p. 184
Science, Morality, Art	p. 198
Adorno, Sartre, Anti-Semitism, and Psychoanalysis	p. 216
Subjectivity and Negative Dialectics	p. 237
Freedom Model	p. 248
History Model	p. 262
Negative Dialectics, Phenomenology, and Subjectivity	p. 273
Notes	p. 283
Bibliography	p. 309
Index	p. 315
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