Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations Used in the Text and Notes
Introduction
Part I. Adorno’s Relation to the Existential and Phenomenologicial Traditions
1. Adorno and Kierkegaard
Adorno’s Critique of Kierkegaard
Adorno’s Kierkegaardian Debt
2. Adorno and Heidegger
Adorno’s Critique of Heidegger
Adorno and Heidegger Are Irreconcilable
3. Adorno and Husserl
Part II. Subjectivity in Sartre’s Existential Phenomenology
4. The Frankfurt School’s Critique of Sartre
Adorno on Sartre
Marcuse’s Critique of Being and Nothingness
5. Sartre’s Relation to His Predecessors in the Phenomenological and Existential Traditions
Being
Knowing
Death
6. Sartre’s Mediating Subjectivity
Sartre’s Decentered Subject and Freedom
Being-for-Others: The Ego in Formation
Bad Faith and the Fundamental Project
Situated Freedom and Purified Reflection
Part III. Adorno’s Dialectic of Subjectivity
7. The (De)Formation of the Subject
The Dawn of the Subject
Science, Morality, Art
Adorno, Sartre, Anti-Semitism, and Psychoanalysis
8. Subjectivity and Negative Dialectics
Freedom Mode
History Model
Negative Dialectics, Phenomenology, and Subjectivity
Notes
Bibliography
Index