The memory of thought : an essay on Heidegger and Adorno

The memory of thought : an essay on Heidegger and Adorno / Alexander García Düttmann ; translated by Nicholas Walker.

This title reconstructs the philosophy of Adorno and Heidegger in the light of the importance that these thinkers attach to two proper names: Auschwitz and Germanien.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: García Düttmann, Alexander
Format: eBook
Language:English
German
Published: London ; New York : Continuum, 2002.
Subjects:
Heidegger, Martin, > 1889-1976.
Adorno, Theodor W., > 1903-1969.
Adorno, Theodor W., > 1903-1969
Heidegger, Martin, > 1889-1976
1900-1999
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Philosophy, German > 20th century.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Modern.
Philosophy, German
Geschiedfilosofie.
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Uniform Title:Gedächtnis des Denkens.
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction: Of (From) Germania
  • after (to) Auschwitz; PART I. GUILTS AND DEBTS; 1 Fate and Sacrifice; Adorno''s comparison; Guilt repeated; Recourse to Benjamin; Bare life; Originary guilt of law; Omens, presentiments, signals; The named head; Gift and oblivion; Rationality of cunning; Equality as inequality; Sacrifice and the principle of equivalence; Reconciliation postponed; Space and time; A rational overview; Nietzsche''s ''spirit of vengeance''; Sacrifice as appropriation; The commanding name; Purifying rage
  • Dialectic of sacrifice, promise of happinessSimilarity to the animal; Image; The ''minimal meaninglessness'' of language; Art and philosophy; Progress in the realm of spirit; The caesura of remembrance; Holding course; 2 Dialectics and the Ban on Images; Selfhood; Determinate negation; Particularity of Judaism; Christian love; Negative dialectics; The origin of performative contradiction; Dialectics without dialectic: the vertiginous; 3 Constellation and De-constitution; The non-identical speaks; Movement and difference; Double reading; Language as event; Undecidedness; The death of intention
  • Enigma and solution, question and answerFalling; The cunning of the name; Stupidity of the subject; Too much talk: fatefulness of enlightenment; Mimesis; Constructing the totality; The new barbarism; Writing after Auschwitz; Jaspers on the question of guilt; The crisis of spirit; A telling historical sign; The question of guilt as an introduction to metaphysics; National consciousness and guilt; Double bind; You shall never be remembered; PART II. INAUGURATIONS; 1 Counter-Turning of the Beginning; Storm; Beginning, greatness, stand; Imminence; Blindness of the philosopher
  • Genius of forgettingPoetry and thought; The power and force of language, the truth of a people; Concepts and political determination; The incalculable; The most dangerous of gifts; On poetry: the over-poetic; What begins in and as language; ''Aestheticisation of polities'' or ''politicisation of aesthetics''?; Having time; The ''Graeco-German mission''; Naming the name; Original language and ''the final solution''; The word ''being''; History and the multiplication of languages; Repetition; 2 Rise and Downfall; Semblance of regression; Repudiation and celebration of destruction
  • Simplifications: learning from a ''national catastrophe''A delaying pseudo-rational reasoning; Shock; Revolution and revolt; Commemoration; Experience, lived sensation, reflection; Angel of history; Political theology; De-cision; The thrust of thatness; The essence of the work of art; Preserving and offering; 3 Keeping to the Names; The saying of words; Originary historical transmission; ''The midst of being''; Metaphysical neighbours; Dualism and duality; The essence of historical existence; The legitimising power of the name; Stability of sense; Given as endowment and given as task

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