Gerhard Richter

Thinking with Adorno (eBook, PDF)

The Uncoercive Gaze

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Produktbeschreibung

What Theodor W. Adorno says cannot be separated from how he says it. By the same token, what he thinks cannot be isolated from how he thinks it. The central aim of Richter's book is to examine how these basic yet far-reaching assumptions teach us to think with Adorno-both alongside him and in relation to his diverse contexts and constellations. These contexts and constellations range from aesthetic theory to political critique, from the problem of judgment to the difficulty of inheriting a tradition, from the primacy of the object to the question of how to lead a right life within a wrong one.Richter vividly shows how Adorno s highly suggestive yet often overlooked concept of the uncoercive gaze designates a specific kind of comportment in relation to an object of critical analysis: It moves close to the object and tarries with it while struggling to decipher the singularities and non-identities that are lodged within it, whether the object is an idea, a thought, a concept, a text, a work of art, an experience, or a problem of political or sociological theory.Thinking with Adorno s uncoercive gaze not only means following the fascinating paths of his own work; it also means extending hospitality to the ghostly voices of others. As this book shows, Adorno is best understood as a thinker in dialogue, whether with long-deceased predecessors in the German tradition such as Kant and Hegel, with writers such as Kafka, with contemporaries such as Benjamin and Arendt, or with philosophical voices that succeeded him, such as those of Derrida and Agamben.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780823284054
• Artikelnr.: 56546213

Autorenporträt

Gerhard Richter

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Art of Reading 1
1. Adorno and the Uncoercive Gaze 17
2. Buried Possibility: Adorno and Arendt on Tradition 39
3. The Inheritance of the Constellation: Adorno and Hegel 70
4. Judging by Refraining from Judgment: Adorno's Artwork and Its
Einordnung 95
5. The Literary Artwork between Word and Concept: Adorno and Agamben
Reading Kafka 115
6. The Artwork without Cardinal Direction: Notes on Orientation in Adorno
131
7. False Life, Living On: Adorno with Derrida 144
Conclusion: A Kind of Leave-Taking 161
Acknowledgments 167
Notes 169
Index 203