Adorno and the Need in Thinking: New Critical Essays Book

Acknowledgments

Introduction
THE EDITORS

PART ONE: LANGUAGE

Theses on the Language of the Philosopher
THEODOR W. ADORNO
Adorno’s Dialectics of Language
MICHAEL K. PALAMAREK
The ‘Aesthetic Dignity of Words’: Adorno’s Philosophy of Language
SAMIR GANDESHA
The Linguistic Image: Mediation and Immediacy in Adorno and Benjamin
KATHY KILOH

PART TWO: METAPHYSICS AND SOCIETY

Metaphysics after Auschwitz: Suffering and Hope in Adorno’sNegative Dialectics
LAMBERT ZUIDERVAART
From the Actual to the Possible: Non-identity Thinking
DEBORAH COOK
Experience and Aura: Adorno, McDowell, and ‘Second Nature’
JONATHAN SHORT

PART THREE: COMMUNICATION, REIFICATION, AND THE NON-IDENTICAL

Mystical Kernels? Rational Shells? Habermas and Adorno on Reification and Re-enchantment
ASHER HOROWITZ
Politics beyond Speech: Communication and the Nonidentical
MARTIN MORRIS
Adorno’s Aesthetics of Reconciliation: Negative Presentation of Utopia or Post-metaphysical Pipe-Dream?
DONALD A. BURKE

PART FOUR: AESTHETICS AND CULTURE

On Adorno’s Aesthetics of the Ugly
PAMELA LEACH
‘Three-Minute Access’: Fugazi’s Negative Aesthetic
COLIN J. CAMPBELL
A World of Difference: Adorno and Cultural Studies
SHANE GUNSTER
‘On the Morality of Thinking,’ or Why Still Adorno}
ASHA VARADHARAJAN

PART FIVE: ECOLOGY

Adorno and Ecological Politics
ANDREW BIRO

Contributors