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Title: Negative Dialectics by Theodor W. Adorno, Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno ISBN: 0-8264-0132-5 Publisher: Continuum Pub. Date: November, 1983 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Read it at your own peril
Comment: Negative Dialectic is very thought-provoking and difficult text in itself, but it is worth of the effort. If you are interested in Adorno, it is a must-have. Yet the English translation is unbearably inadequate, you may make better sense of it, if you consult with the original German text. The companion piece to Negative Dialectics is Adorno's Prism. Get Prism first, and wait for a better translation of ND.
Rating: 4
Summary: Wait for new translation
Comment: Famously bad translation of the central piece of Adorno's philosophy. I recommend getting Aesthetic Theory now and waiting for the next translator's attempt.
Rating: 5
Summary: unfashionable sense
Comment: Michel Foucault once stated that it was a great tragedy that the Frankfurt School and the French post-structuralists were unaware of each other's work. He felt that the two schools of thought could have gained much from dialogue, and this text illustrates his point in its relatedness to postmodern discourses on the limits of knowledge and the ends of positivistic philosophy.
Adorno addresses the relationship between the concept and the nonconceptualities, which is nothing more that the relationship between discourse and the Other in post-structuralist phraseology. The text is extraordinarily difficult - not always a problem explainable via the difficulties of the ideas involved - and I often find myself spending an hour reading and re-reading a page or two before being able to come to terms with the content. Personally, I enjoy such difficult reading, however, and find it an avenue for developing critical reasoning skills at the sime time as I re-investigate the problems addressed in the difficult prose.
I highly recommend this text for anyone interested in pessemistic, carefully thought-out discourses on the limits placed on understanding by the "pigeon-holeing" of conceptualization, anyone who enjoys cracking hard nuts via time, sweat, and frustration, and anyone looking for a difficult text to read superficially and criticize emptily as being an example of the poverty of post WWII continental philosophy. In a sense, it is a book for all . . .
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Title: Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life by Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno, E. F. Jephcott ISBN: 0860917045 Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: December, 1996 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Illuminations by Walter Benjamin ISBN: 0805202412 Publisher: Schocken Books Pub. Date: 13 January, 1969 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Arcades Project by Walter Benjamin, Howard Eiland, Kevin McLaughlin ISBN: 0674008022 Publisher: Belknap Pr Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Dialectic of Enlightenment by Max Horkheimer, John Cumming, Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno ISBN: 0826400930 Publisher: Continuum Pub. Date: April, 1976 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Reflections by Walter Benjamin ISBN: 080520802X Publisher: Schocken Books Pub. Date: 12 March, 1986 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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