Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Adorno's Positive Dialectic
- General Introduction
- PRELUDE TO ADORNO'S POSITIVE DIALECTIC
- Prelude I: Adorno's Intellectual Tradition: German Philosophy
- Prelude II: Adorno's Intellectual Tradition: Sigmund Freud
- ADORNO'S POSITIVE DIALECTIC: INTRODUCTION
- PART I NEGATIVE THESIS: THE DECLINE OF ENLIGHTENMENT
- PART II POSITIVE THESIS: THE REDEMPTION OF ENLIGHTENMENT
- Bibliography
- Index
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 August 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Adorno's Positive Dialectic
- General Introduction
- PRELUDE TO ADORNO'S POSITIVE DIALECTIC
- Prelude I: Adorno's Intellectual Tradition: German Philosophy
- Prelude II: Adorno's Intellectual Tradition: Sigmund Freud
- ADORNO'S POSITIVE DIALECTIC: INTRODUCTION
- PART I NEGATIVE THESIS: THE DECLINE OF ENLIGHTENMENT
- PART II POSITIVE THESIS: THE REDEMPTION OF ENLIGHTENMENT
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This book emanates from doctoral and postdoctoral research projects both written whilst at the philosophy department in the University of Cambridge. Earlier versions of some parts of the book have appeared in research journals. Ideas from the Prelude and Chapter 1 were first published in The Concept of Enlightenment in the Early Frankfurt School, The British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 8 (3) 2000: 521–544; and in The Dialectic Of Enlightenment: A Contemporary Reading, History of the Human Sciences, 12 (3), 1999: 35–54. A preliminary version of Chapter 3 appeared as Instrumental Reason's Unreason, Philosophy and Social Criticism, 25 (4), 1999: 23–42 and Chapter 5 likewise appeared as Aesthetics and Social Reconciliation? Philosophy and Social Criticism 24 (1), 1998: 25–41.
I have received generous help from many sources at the various stages of preparing this manuscript. My great thanks go to the institutions that housed me, to Newnham, King's, and Corpus Christi Colleges, Cambridge; the Departments of Social and Political Sciences, History, and Philosophy at Cambridge University; the British Academy and the School of Social and Political Studies at Edinburgh University. I am most grateful to my mentor Raymond Geuss for more than five years of intellectual support and inspiration. I am also indebted to Anthony Pagden for institutional advice and encouragement and to Susan James and Michael Rosen for their careful reading and criticism of my text and for their subsequent support.
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- Adorno's Positive Dialectic , pp. ix - xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2002