Language without Soil: Adorno and Late Philosophical Modernity

by Gerhard Richter (Editor), Gerhard Richter (Editor)

• New

  Hardcover
  2009

  $104.56

  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'.

• New

  Paperback
  2009

  $48.72

  Theodor W Adorno's multifaceted work has exerted a profound impact on far-ranging discourses and critical practices in late modernity. In this book, the essays collected analyze the full range of implications emanating from Adorno's demand that the task of critical thinking be to imagine a mode of being in the world.