The Jargon of Authenticity by Theodor Adorno (English) Paperback Book

Description: The Jargon of Authenticity by Theodor Adorno Adornos frank and open challenge to directness, and the avoidance of language that gives itself over either to the market, to balderdash, or to the predominating vulgarity, is as timely today as it ever has been. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Theodor Adorno was no stranger to controversy. In The Jargon of Authenticity he gives full expression to his hostility to the language employed by certain existentialist thinkers such as Martin Heidegger. With his customary alertness to the uses and abuses of language, he calls into question the jargon, or aura, as his colleague Walter Benjamin described it, which clouded existentialists thought. He argued that its use undermined the very message for meaning and liberation that it sought to make authentic. Moreover, such language - claiming to address the issue of freedom - signally failed to reveal the lack of freedom inherent in the capitalist context in which it was written. Instead, along with the jargon of the advertising jingle, it attributed value to the satisfaction of immediate desire. Alerting his readers to the connection between ideology and language, Adornos frank and open challenge to directness, and the avoidance of language that gives itself over either to the market, to balderdash, or to the predominating vulgarity, is as timely today as it ever has been. Author Biography Theodor Adorno (1903 - 1969). German philosopher who was a leading member of the Frankfurt School. Adorno led an influential attack on the "culture industry" prevalent in contemporary capitalist society. Table of Contents Chapter THE JARGON OF AUTHENTICITY; Chapter INDEX; Chapter Routledge Classics; Get inside a great mind; Review Adorno is a political thinker who wished to bring about radical change. - Iris MurdochA volume of Adornos essays is equivalent to a whole shelf of books on literature. - Susan SontagAdorno expounds what may be called a new philosophy of consciousness. His philosophy lives, dangerously but also fruitfully, in proximity to an ascetic puritanical moral rage, an attachment to some items in the structure and vocabulary of Marxism, and a feeling that human suffering is the only important thing and makes nonsense of everything else... Adorno is a political thinker who wishes to bring about radical change. He is also a philosopher, with a zest for metaphysics, who is at home in the western philosophical tradition. - Irish Murdoch Details ISBN0415289912 Pages 176 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Series Routledge Classics Year 2002 Edition 2nd ISBN-10 0415289912 ISBN-13 9780415289917 Format Paperback Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Translated from German DEWEY 142.78 Media Book Language English Short Title JARGON OF AUTHENTICITY REV/E 2 Illustrations black & white illustrations Author Theodor Adorno Imprint Routledge Publication Date 2002-09-05 UK Release Date 2002-09-05 AU Release Date 2002-09-05 NZ Release Date 2002-09-05 Translator Frederic Will Edition Description 2nd edition Alternative 9780415289900 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:134415737;

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