an essay on Heidegger and Adorno
Edición de la obra The memory of thought
| Autor | Alexander García Düttmann, Alexander García Düttmann |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Continuum |
| Fecha de publicación | 2002 |
| Lugar | London, New York |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 338 |
| ISBN-10 | 0826459005, 0826459013 |
| OCLC | 48579231, 229370306 |
| LCCN | 2001058296 |
| Número de Cutter |
D979mThe Memory of Thought reconstructs the philosophy of Adorno and Heidegger in the light of the importance that these thinkers attach to two proper names: Auschwitz and Germanien. In Adorno's dialectical thinking, Auschwitz is the name of an incommensurable historical event that seems to put a provisional end to history as a negative totality. In Heidegger's thinking of Being, Germanien is a name inscribed in an historical mission on which the fate of Western civilization seems to depend: it thus becomes the name of a positive totality of history