![]() Simon Jarvis, University of Cambridge, author of Adorno: A Critical Introduction Brian OConnor has crafted a timely and robust contribution to the ongoing reception of Adornos work. ![]() OConnors study makes Adornos vital and detailed contributions to epistemology and metaphysics harder than ever to ignore. Taking full account of important recent work in German, he also brings a clear and analytical intelligence to the dissection and reconstruction of some of Adornos central arguments. Bernstein, author of Adorno: Disenchantment and Ethics OConnor takes Adorno seriously as a philosopher, rather than regarding the philosophy as a mere epiphenomenon of the social theory. ![]() An invaluable contribution to Adorno studies. His analysis of Adornos transcendental strategy is novel and challenging. Tom Huhn, School of Visual Arts, New York Brian OConnor has produced an elegant and persuasive defense of the epistemological core of Adornos philosophy: the priority of the object for the possibility of experience. He provides a much needed and exceedingly lucid treatment of Adornos central concerns with the nature of the object of experience and the shape of subjectivity, with specific reference to the achievements of Kant and Hegel, around and within which Adorno situated his own project. OConnors study makes Adornos vital and detailed contributions to epistemology and metaphysics harder than ever to ignore.-Simon Jarvis, University of Cambridge, author of Adorno: A Critical Introduction Brian OConnor has crafted a timely and robust contribution to the ongoing reception of Adornos work. An invaluable contribution to Adorno studies.-J. He provides a much needed and exceedingly lucid treatment of Adornos central concerns with the nature of the object of experience and the shape of subjectivity, with specific reference to the achievements of Kant and Hegel, around and within which Adorno situated his own project.-Tom Huhn, School of Visual Arts, New York Brian OConnor has produced an elegant and persuasive defense of the epistemological core of Adornos philosophy: the priority of the object for the possibility of experience. Review Quotes Brian OConnor has crafted a timely and robust contribution to the ongoing reception of Adornos work. OConnor discusses Georg Luc cs and the influence of his protocritical theory on Adornos thought the elements of Kants and Hegels German idealism appropriated by Adorno for his theory of subject-object mediation the priority of the object and the agency of the subject in Adornos epistemology and Adornos important critiques of Kant and the phenomenology of Heidegger and Husserl, critiques that both illuminate Adornos key concepts and reveal his construction of critical theory through an engagement with the problems of philosophy. ![]() To explicate the context in which Adornos philosophy operates-the tradition of modern German philosophy, from Kant to Heidegger-OConnor examines in detail the ideas of these philosophers as well as Adornos self-defining differences with them. This lays the foundation for the applied concrete critique of appearances that is essential to the possibility of critical theory. Adorno, OConnor argues, is committed to the concretion of philosophy: his thesis of nonidentity attempts to show that reality is not reducible to appearances. But, as Brian OConnor demonstrates in this highly original interpretation of Adornos philosophy, the negative dialectic can be seen as the theoretical foundation of the reflexivity or critical rationality required by critical theory. Adornos negative dialectic would seem to be far removed from the concreteness of critical theory Adornos philosophy considers perhaps the most traditional subject of pure philosophy, the structure of experience, whereas critical theory examines specific aspects of society. Book Synopsis The purely philosophical concerns of Theodor W. About the Book An analysis of how Adornos pure philosophy can be seen to provide a justification of the rationality required by critical theory.
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