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The Memory of Thought

An Essay on Heidegger and Adorno

Alexander Garcia-Duttmann author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:9th May '02

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The 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.

"A groundbreaking book...truly of the first importance!"--Werner Hamacher

ISBN: 9780826459008

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 560g

350 pages