{"product_id":"ontology-and-dialectics-1960-61-hardback-9780745693125","title":"Ontology and Dialectics; 1960-61 (Hardback) 9780745693125","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eOntology and Dialectics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003e1960-61\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eTheodor W. Adorno (Author), Nick Walker (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745693125, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 23 November 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e384 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.6 x 15 x 3 cm, 0.658 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e‘\u003ci\u003eOntology and Dialectics\u003c\/i\u003e is a work of the highest importance. These lectures allow us not only to gain a clearer understanding of Adorno’s critique of Heidegger but also to understand more fully the project of a German-Jewish thinker who, having returned to Germany after the Second World War, wonders if philosophy “after Auschwitz” is still possible. The course shows Adorno developing and assembling many of the major concepts that would inform the mature phase of his thinking, right up to his untimely death in August 1969.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGerhard Richter, Brown University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Adorno’s wider remarks about heteronomous thinking and the inimical socio-political effects this can have are of vital importance.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarx \u0026amp; Philosophy Review of Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdorno’s lectures on ontology and dialectics from 1960–61 comprise his most sustained and systematic analysis of Heidegger’s philosophy. They also represent a continuation of a project that he shared with Walter Benjamin – ‘to demolish Heidegger’. Following the publication of the latter’s magnum opus \u003ci\u003eBeing and Time\u003c\/i\u003e, and long before his notorious endorsement of Nazism at Freiburg University, both Adorno and Benjamin had already rejected Heidegger’s fundamental ontology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfter his return to Germany from his exile in the United States, Adorno became Heidegger’s principal intellectual adversary, engaging more intensively with his work than with that of any other contemporary philosopher. Adorno regarded Heidegger as an extremely limited thinker and for that reason all the more dangerous. In these lectures, he highlights Heidegger’s increasing fixation with the concept of ontology to show that the doctrine of being can only truly be understood through a process of dialectical thinking. Rather than exploiting overt political denunciation, Adorno deftly highlights the connections between Heidegger’s philosophy and his political views and, in doing so, offers an alternative plea for enlightenment and rationality.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThese seminal lectures, in which Adorno dissects the thought of one of the most influential twentieth-century philosophers, will appeal to students and scholars in philosophy and critical theory and throughout the humanities and social sciences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul style=\"font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\u0026lt;br\u0026gt; font-size: 11px\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\"\u003e \u003cli\u003eContents\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eEditor’s Foreword\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eLECTURE 1: ‘What Being Really is’\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAgainst the philosophy of standpoints and philosophical world views\u003cbr\u003e the meaning of rigour in philosophy and the positive sciences – the plan of these lectures\u003cbr\u003e immanent critique – ‘What being really is’\u003cbr\u003e ontology as structural interconnection – the doctrine of being contra idealism and methodology – the concept of meaning\u003cbr\u003e the being of beings\u003cbr\u003e the meaning of being – being and essence – categorial intuition versus abstraction\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eLECTURE 2: On Ontological Difference\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe structure of being and being itself\u003cbr\u003e regional ontologies and fundamental ontology – on the problem of ontological difference (I) – ontic questions and ontological questions – questions concerning the meaning of being – question of origin as petitio principii – circular reasoning (I) – critique of origins – circular reasoning (II) – fusion of mysticism and the claim to rationality –historical dimension of ‘the question of being’\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eLECTURE 3: History of the Concept of Being\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCircular reasoning (III) – the unreflected ‘question of being’ – being in the Pre-Socratics, in Plato and Aristotle – experience of being is not ‘prior’\u003cbr\u003e being as product of abstraction – being and thought in Parmenides\u003cbr\u003e abstraction and vital powers not distinguished for archaic thought\u003cbr\u003e the most ancient not the truest – philosophy and the particular sciences\u003cbr\u003e dialectic of enlightenment\u003cbr\u003e residual character of being – two kinds of truth\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eLECTURE 4: Being and Language (I)\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePrehistory of the new ontologies: Franz Brentano\u003cbr\u003e ontology as counter-enlightenment – a double front against realism and conceptualism – fundamental ontology as hermeneutics\u003cbr\u003e being and language\u003cbr\u003e nominalist critique of language – analysis of the concept of being\u003cbr\u003e positivism and language – conceptuality as domination of nature\u003cbr\u003e inadequacy of concept and thing\u003cbr\u003e thing in itself and being – functional understanding of concepts\u003cbr\u003e double sense of being as concept and anti-concept\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eLECTURE 5: Being and Language (II)\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAmbiguity of the concept of being (I) – arbitrariness in concept formation\u003cbr\u003e Kant versus Spinoza - ambiguity of the concept of being (II) – ambiguity of the concept of being (III) – subjectivity as constitutive for ontology – substantial character of language\u003cbr\u003e borrowing from theology – on the analysis of language\u003cbr\u003e obligations regarding linguistic form – the wavering character of being\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eLECTURE 6: Separating Being and Beings\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExamples from antiquity\u003cbr\u003e on Aristotle’s terminology\u003cbr\u003e the priority of the tode ti – genesis and validity\u003cbr\u003e Heidegger’s being as third possibility\u003cbr\u003e on Heidegger’s concept of origin – archaic dimension of Heidegger’s ontology\u003cbr\u003e against genetic explanation\u003cbr\u003e phenomenology and history – phenomenological method\u003cbr\u003e red and redness\u003cbr\u003e the inference to being-in-itself in Scheler and Heidegger – Husserl’s return to transcendentalism\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eLECTURE 7: Mind in relation to Beings\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e‘Priority’ as petitio principii – critique of the possibility of ontology\u003cbr\u003e on Cartesian dualism –phenomenological reduction of the subject\u003cbr\u003e objectivity of the second level\u003cbr\u003e shutting out beings – philosophical compulsion for cleanliness – allergy towards beings\u003cbr\u003e an aura borrowed from theology\u003cbr\u003e the story of Snow White – ontology as counterpart to nominalism and positivism\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eLECTURE 8: Ontologizing the Ontic (I)\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe subject-object division not permanent\u003cbr\u003e fundamental ontology and the loss of tradition\u003cbr\u003e the ‘unintelligibility of Heidegger – oblivion of the numinous\u003cbr\u003e material stuff and abstraction in the Pre-Socratics – ontology or dialectics\u003cbr\u003e ‘being’ as ‘the wholly other’ – critique as differentiation\u003cbr\u003e original non-differentiation\u003cbr\u003e Heidegger’s anti-intellectualism – against postponement – Heidegger’s trick: ontologizing the ontic\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eLECTURE 9: Ontologizing the Ontic (II)\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eConceptualizing the non-conceptual\u003cbr\u003e philosophy of being and idealism, Heidegger and Hegel – ontologizing existence – spurious appeal of the new\u003cbr\u003e fascination through ignorance Ð subreption of the nominalized verb ‘being’ – Dasein as being and a being – ‘Be who you are!’ – eidetic science and ontology – subjectivity as the site of being\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eLECTURE 10: Ontological Need\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHeidegger and Kant\u003cbr\u003e Kant’s ultimate intention – Heidegger’s thought as the site of being\u003cbr\u003e a diminished concept of subject: absence of labour and spontaneity – initial observations on the ontological need – a sociological interjection – the ‘elevated tone’\u003cbr\u003e Heidegger’s language and Adorno’s great grandfather\u003cbr\u003e fundamental ontology as index of a lack\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eLECTURE 11: The Abdication of Philosophy\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOn the sociology of the ontological need – philosophy and society\u003cbr\u003e distracting effect of Marxism\u003cbr\u003e the relevance of morality – philosophy and the natural sciences\u003cbr\u003e philosophy and art – Kant’s abdication before God, freedom, and immortality – the ‘resurrection of metaphysics’\u003cbr\u003e impotence of philosophy in the face of the essential – Schelling, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eLECTURE 12: The Relation to Kierkegaard\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eScience versus philosophy\u003cbr\u003e accepted heresies – an anti-academic academy – licensed audacity – relation to Kierkegaard – ‘subjectivity is truth’ – history of the concept of ontology\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eLECTURE 13: Critique of Subjectivism\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe anti-subjectivism of modern ontology – the problem of relativism (I)\u003cbr\u003e how questions vanish – the problem of relativism (II)\u003cbr\u003e ‘to the things themselves’ – transcendental subjectivism and egoity – the acosmism of post-Kantian idealism\u003cbr\u003e the unreason of the world - the crisis of subjectivity and the development of cosmology – critique of the domination of nature\u003cbr\u003e fundamental ontology and dialectical materialism\u003cbr\u003e changes in the concept of reason\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eLECTURE 14: Hypostasizing the Question\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe crucial role of subjectivity in Heidegger’s early thought\u003cbr\u003e Heidegger and Lukács – need and truth\u003cbr\u003e question and answer – the philosophical structure of the question\u003cbr\u003e hypostasis of the question in Heidegger – the question as surrogate answer\u003cbr\u003e the mechanism of subreption – the ideology of ‘man’\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eLECTURE 15: Time, Being, Meaning\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e‘Man’, ‘tradition’, ‘life’: indices of loss – philosophy of existence and philosophy of life – labour and the consciousness of time\u003cbr\u003e phenomenology of ‘wisdom’\u003cbr\u003e loss of historical continuity, America – antiques business and abstract time\u003cbr\u003e ontologizing the concept of substance – time and being as complementary concepts\u003cbr\u003e disenchantment of the world and the creation of meaning – raiding poetry\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eLECTURE 16: Ontology and Society\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHeidegger’s archaic language\u003cbr\u003e feigned origins\u003cbr\u003e primordial history and petit bourgeois mentality – social presuppositions of ontology – ontology as philosophical neo-classicism – impossibility of ontology today – Heidegger’s strategy\u003cbr\u003e sympathy with barbarism – phenomenological caprice – ‘project’\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eLECTURE 17: Mythic Content\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eRegression to mythology – fate and hybris in the concept of being = blindness, anxiety, death\u003cbr\u003e relation to religion – National Socialism and the homeland\u003cbr\u003e National Socialism and the relation to history – the indeterminacy of myth and the longing for the concrete\u003cbr\u003e the most concrete as the most abstract – being as ‘itself’\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eLECTURE 18: The Purity and Immediacy of Being\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eTautological determination of being\u003cbr\u003e purity in Husserl\u003cbr\u003e scholasticism and empiricism in Brentano – the method of eidetic intuition – intuition and the a priori – on the concept of ontological difference (II) – purity and immediacy irreconcilable\u003cbr\u003e conceptuality as the Fall – idle talk and the forgetfulness of being\u003cbr\u003e the experience of being, the language of nature and music\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eLECTURE 19: The Indeterminacy of Being\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePro domo – indeterminacy as determination – the ‘overcoming’ of nihilism\u003cbr\u003e being as ens realissimum - the question of constitution versus the priority of being\u003cbr\u003e synthesis and the synthesized\u003cbr\u003e the physiognomic gaze – the particular transparent to its universal – being – the meaning of being (I)\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eLECTURE 20: Meaning of Being and the Copula\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe meaning of being (II) – ontology as prescription – protest against reification\u003cbr\u003e the problem of relativism (III) – structure of the lectures – the copula (I)\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eLECTURE 21: The Copula and the Question of Being\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe copula (II) – the copula (III) – no transcendence of being – the childish question\u003cbr\u003e language and truth – the question of being (I)\u003cbr\u003e ‘authenticity’ and the decline of civilisation – the question of being (II)\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eLECTURE 22: Being and Existence\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHeidegger’s turn\u003cbr\u003e the concept of ontological difference (III) – the mythology of being\u003cbr\u003e archaism – function of the concept of existence – ‘Dasein is ontological in itself’ – ‘existence’ as authoritarian – ‘historicity’ – against the ontology of the non-ontological – history as the medium of philosophy – critique\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eLECTURE 23: The Concept of Negative Dialectic\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e‘Peep hole metaphysics’ and negative dialectics - 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