Adorno’s Nonidentical and Derrida’s Diffrance: For a Resurrection of Negative Dialectics – Hardcover-Fast Shipping

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Stefan Zenklusen (Author)

The virulent anti-Hegelianism of French poststructuralism and its (difficult) confrontation with J rgen Habermas has long obscured the closeness of Jacques Derrida’s “diff rance” to Theodor W. Adorno’s “Nonidentical.” Taking the overarching theme of “identity and difference” as a guide, we can peel apart what unites and separates these two thinkers. In so doing, certain “de-realizing” effects of Derrida’s entrapment in signs reveal themselves. By contrast, Adorno’s social and cultural diagnosis, when extrapolated to a post-Fordian context is astonishingly fruitful. Attempts to trivialize negative dialectics as a model of intellectual self-understanding from a past age or as an esthetic reserve of ways of life are untenable.

Number of Pages: 182Dimensions: 0.44 x 9 x 6 INPublication Date: November 18, 2020