Peter E. Gordon
Adorno’s Utopian Promise, 50 Years On
Too often, the various heroes of Continental philosophy are invoked as talismans for some undifferentiated thing called “Theory,” alongside other avatars such as Nietzsche and Foucault, Derrida and Heidegger, as if they were all authorities belonging to a catechism beyond criticism or questioning. Can Adorno be redeemed from this fate?
August 5, 2019