The Memory of Thought: An Essay on Heidegger and Adorno
Alexander García Düttmann, Nicholas Walker
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.
Year:
1991
Publisher:
Continuum
Language:
english
ISBN 10:
1472547632
ISBN 13:
9781472547637
Series:
Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers
File:
PDF, 15.90 MB
IPFS:
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english, 1991