Language Without Soil by Gerhard Richter
Analyzes the implications of Adorno's demand that the task of critical thinking be to imagine a mode of being in the world that occurs in and through a language that has liberated itself from the spell of an alleged historical and political inevitability, what he once tellingly called a 'language without soil'.
"This is a magical volumeThese beautiful essays transform the most canonical works of Adorno from monuments we thought we knew into opportunities for future thought. The Adorno of this volume is neither a matter of the past nor a straightforward thought machine, but rather an intricate, challenging, searching plurality of voices that are, at times, at odds with each other. In other words, this is a new Adorno, an Adorno not yet known to us, not yet explored, and an Adorno not yet complete. This new Adorno is a matter of the future, of reading, and discovery." -- -Fritz Breithaupt Indiana University "A very thoughtfully comprised and well executed collection with a number of insightful contributions that individually and as a whole open up new perspectives in Adorno scholarship." -- -Eva Geulen University of Bonn
Gerhard Richter is Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature at Brown University. His most recent books include Inheriting Walter Benjamin and Afterness: Figures of Following in Modern Thought and Aesthetics.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780823231263 |
| ISBN 10 | 0823231267 |
| Title | Language Without Soil |
| Author | Gerhard Richter |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Fordham University Press |
| Year published | 2009-11-18 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
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