Communication and Expression: Adorno's Philosophy of Language (Founding Critical Theory)

Hogh, Philip

ISBN 10: 1783487283 / ISBN 13: 9781783487288

Published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2016

Seller Inventory # mon0003855935

Synopsis:

The linguistic turn in critical theory has been routinely justified with the claim that Adorno’s philosophy is trapped within the limits of consciousness philosophy. Yet Adorno’s own philosophy of language has not yet been fully and systematically examined in its own right. Philip Hogh argues that it was in fact the linguistic turn in critical theory that prevented a thorough analysis of Adorno's philosophy of language. Here he reconstructs Adorno’s philosophy of language and presents it as a coherent theory that demands to be understood as an important contribution to contemporary linguistic philosophy. By analysing all the key concepts in Adorno’s thought (subjectivity, epistemology, social theory and aesthetics), and comparing them to Robert Brandom’s material inferentialism, John McDowell’s theory of conceptual experience and Jürgen Habermas’ theory of communicative action, this book presents Adorno’s theory as an important contribution to contemporary philosophy of language in its own right.

About the Author:

Philip Hogh teaches philosophy at the Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany, where he is also a member of the Adorno Research Centre.

Antonia Hofstätter,the translator, is a graduate student in philosophy at the University of Brighton, UK.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Communication and Expression: Adorno's ...
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Publication Date: 2016
Binding: paperback
Condition: Very Good