Interest in Theodor W. Adorno continues to grow in the English-speaking world as the significance of his contribution to philosophy, social and cultural theory, as well as aesthetics is increasingly recognized. Espen Hammer s lucid book is the first to properly analyze the political implications of his work, paying careful attention to Adorno s work on key thinkers such as Kant, Hegel and Benjamin.
Examining Adorno s political experiences and assessing his engagement with Marxist as well as liberal theory, Hammer looks at the development of Adorno s thought as he confronts...
Interest in Theodor W. Adorno continues to grow in the English-speaking world as the significance of his contribution to philosophy, social and cul...
Theodor Adorno was one of the foremost radical thinkers of the Twentieth century. Critic of the Enlightenment, liberalism and modernity, he was the architect behind the famous Frankfurt School of Critical Theory and his work ranged over philosophy, social and cultural theory, art and music. In this lucid book, Espen Hammer critically considers and defends Adorno's most important contribution: his political thought and it contemporary relevance. Espen Hammer examines the background to Adorno's thought in the work of Kierkegaard, Marx, Weber and Walter Benjamin and assesses Adorno's...
Theodor Adorno was one of the foremost radical thinkers of the Twentieth century. Critic of the Enlightenment, liberalism and modernity, he was the ar...
Stanley Cavell is a leading figure in American philosophy and one of the most exhilarating and wide-ranging intellectuals of our time. In this book Espen Hammer offers a lucid and thorough account of the development of Cavell's work, from his early writings on ordinary language philosophy and skepticism to his most recent contributions to film studies, literary theory, romanticism, ethics, and politics.
The book traces the many lines of skepticism occurring in Cavell's work and shows how they amount to a rich and subtle picture of human subjectivity. Hammer explores...
Stanley Cavell is a leading figure in American philosophy and one of the most exhilarating and wide-ranging intellectuals of our time. In this book Es...
This book is a critical analysis of how key philosophers in the European tradition have responded to the emergence of a modern conception of temporality. Espen Hammer suggests that it is a feature of Western modernity that time has been forcibly separated from the natural cycles and processes with which it used to be associated. In a discussion that ranges over Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Heidegger and Adorno, he examines the forms of dissatisfaction which result from this, together with narrative modes of configuring time, the relationship between agency and temporality, and...
This book is a critical analysis of how key philosophers in the European tradition have responded to the emergence of a modern conception of temporali...
A new title in Routledge s Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers series, this is a two-volume collection of the very best recent scholarship on Theodor W. Adorno (1903 69). It is an essential successor to an earlier four-volume collection, "Theodor Adorno" (Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory) (978-0-415-30464-1), edited by Simon Jarvis and published by Routledge in 2006.
Recent decades have seen a remarkable growth of scholarly studies devoted to Theodor W. Adorno s philosophy and social theory. Every year, conferences and publications all over the world testify to a lively...
A new title in Routledge s Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers series, this is a two-volume collection of the very best recent scholarship...
Theodor W. Adorno's aesthetics has dominated discussions about art and aesthetic modernism since World War II, and continues to inform contemporary theorizing. Situating Adorno's aesthetic theory in the context of post-Kantian European philosophy, Espen Hammer explores Adorno's critical view of art as engaged in reconsidering fundamental features of our relation to nature and reality. His book is structured around what Adorno regarded as the contemporary aesthetician's overarching task: to achieve a vision of the fate of art in the modern world, while demonstrating its unique cognitive...
Theodor W. Adorno's aesthetics has dominated discussions about art and aesthetic modernism since World War II, and continues to inform contemporary th...
The Trial by Franz Kafka stands both as one of the most emblematic and fiercely debated novels of the 20th Century. This collection brings Kafka experts together in order to explore the novel's particularly philosophical significance.
The Trial by Franz Kafka stands both as one of the most emblematic and fiercely debated novels of the 20th Century. This collection brings Kafka exper...
The Trial by Franz Kafka stands both as one of the most emblematic and fiercely debated novels of the 20th Century. This collection brings Kafka experts together in order to explore the novel's particularly philosophical significance.
The Trial by Franz Kafka stands both as one of the most emblematic and fiercely debated novels of the 20th Century. This collection brings Kafka exper...
