Interrupting Auschwitz
Art, Religion, Philosophy
Hitler, wrote Theodor Adorno, imposed a new categorical imperative on humankind...to arrange thoughts and actions so that Auschwitz will not repeat itself. Interrupting Auschwitz argues that what gives this imperative its philosophical force and ethical urgency is the very impossibility of fulfilling it. But rather than being cause for despair, this failure offers a renewed conception of the tasks of thought and action. Precisely because the imperative cannot be fulfilled, it places thought in a state of perpetual incompletion, whereby our responsibility is never at an end and redemption is always interrupted.Josh Cohen argues that both Adorn…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4411-7628-8
- EAN: 9781441176288
- Produktnummer: 17020841
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
- Seitenangabe: 186 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 20'766 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
Josh Cohen is Lecturer in English at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He is the author of Spectacular Allegories: Postmodern American Writing and the Politics of Seeing.
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