History and Freedom: Lectures 1964-1965 Paperback / softback - 2006 - 1st Edition
by Theodor W. Adorno
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- Title History and Freedom: Lectures 1964-1965
- Author Theodor W. Adorno
- Binding Paperback / softback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition New
- Pages 368
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Polity Press, Cambridge
- Date 2006-10-01
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # B9780745630137
- ISBN 9780745630137 / 0745630138
- Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
- Dimensions 8.74 x 6.34 x 0.8 in (22.20 x 16.10 x 2.03 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1960's
- Library of Congress subjects History - Philosophy, Histoire - Philosophie
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2020275233
- Dewey Decimal Code 901
From the rear cover
Early in the 1960s Adorno gave four courses of lectures on the road leading to Negative Dialectics, his magnum opus of 1966. The second of these was concerned with the topics of history and freedom. In terms of content, these lectures represented an early version of the chapters in Negative Dialectics devoted to Kant and Hegel. In formal terms, these were improvised lectures that permit us to glimpse a philosophical work in progress.
The text published here gives us an overview of all the themes and motifs of Adornos philosophy of history: the key notion of the domination of nature, his criticism of the existentialist concept of a historicity without history and, finally, his opposition to the traditional idea of truth as something permanent, unchanging and ahistorical.