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Book SynopsisAnalyzes the implications of Adorno's demand that the task of critical thinking be to imagine a mode of being in the world that occurs in and through a language that has liberated itself from the spell of an alleged historical and political inevitability, what he once tellingly called a 'language without soil'.
Trade Review"This is a magical volume. These beautiful essays transform the most canonical works of Adorno from monuments we thought we knew into opportunities for future thought. The Adorno of this volume is neither a matter of the past nor a straightforward thought machine, but rather an intricate, challenging, searching plurality of voices that are, at times, at odds with each other. In other words, this is a new Adorno, an Adorno not yet known to us, not yet explored, and an Adorno not yet complete. This new Adorno is a matter of the future, of reading, and discovery." -- -Fritz Breithaupt Indiana University "A very thoughtfully comprised and well executed collection with a number of insightful contributions that individually and as a whole open up new perspectives in Adorno scholarship." -- -Eva Geulen University of Bonn
