Dialectics of the Body: Corporeality in the Philosophy of Theodor Adorno

by Lisa Yun Lee

Overview

The study of Theodor Adorno has largely ignored or dismissed the enigmatic and provocative moments in his writing on the body. Dialectics of the Body corrects this gap by arguing that Adorno's analysis of reified society emanates and returns to the body and that hope and desire are present throughout Adorno's philosophy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415972451
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/26/2004
Series:	Studies in Philosophy
Edition description:	ANN
Pages:	206
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction; Chapter 1 Repressing the Body; Chapter 1a Avoiding the Sirens: Women in the Dialectic of Enlightenment; Chapter 2 Interrogating Philosophy: The Bared Breasts Incident; Chapter 2a Entanglement: Remembering Gretel Karplus Adorno; Chapter 3 “The Most Forgotten Alien Land”: Adorno’s Essay on Kafka; Chapter 3a Reading the Body: Franz Kafka’s “In the Penal Colony”; Chapter 4 Feminist Negative Dialectics: Dialectical Materialism and the “Transfigured Body”; conclu Conclusion;

Editorial Reviews

"Lisa Yun Lee's new scholarly study, Dialectics of the Body signals a welcome shift in the U.S. reception of this challenging theorist." — Jamie Daniel, In These Times

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