TY - BOOK AU - Burke,Donald TI - Adorno and the need in thinking: new critical essays SN - 9781442683990 AV - B3199 .A367 2007 PY - 2007/// CY - Toronto [Ont. PB - University of Toronto Press KW - Adorno, Theodor W., KW - Philosophy-Ancient KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; Introduction --; PART ONE: LANGUAGE. Theses on the language of the philosopher --; Adorno's dialectics of language --; The 'aesthetic dignity of words' : Adorno's philosophy of language --; The linguistic image : mediation and immediacy in Adorno and Benjamin --; PART TWO: METAPHYSICS AND SOCIETY. Metaphysics after Auschwitz : suffering and hope in Adorno's Negative dialectics --; From the actual to the possible : non-identity thinking --; Experience and aura : Adorno, McDowell, and 'second nature' --; PART THREE: COMMUNICATION, REIFICATION, AND THE NON-IDENTICAL. Mystical kernels? Rational shells? Habermas and Adorno on reification and re-enchantment --; Politics beyond speech: communication and the non-identical --; Adorno's aesthetics of reconciliation : negative presentation of Utopia or post-metaphysical pipe-dream? --; PART FOUR: AESTHETICS AND CULTURE. On Adorno's aesthetics of the ugly --; 'Three-minute access' : Fugazi's negative aesthetic --; A world of difference : Adorno and cultural studies --; 'On the morality of thinking', or why still Adorno --; PART FIVE: ECOLOGY. Adorno and ecological politics; 2; b UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=682528&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -