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Adorno's aesthetics are one of the most important philosophical analyses of the 20th century, but their development remains unclear. Adorno, Aesthetics, Dissonance is the first book to provide a detailed study of how Adorno's thinking of aesthetics developed and to show the different dimensions that came together to make it uniquely powerful. Principal among these dimensions are his intense interest in music and his historical and materialist ...

The Revolutionary War is a recent memory for all early settlers of America, and the War of 1812 looms. The trials and triumphs of the Massie family are chronicled here. Establishing a Southeastern Virginia farm in the late Eighteenth century, follow generations of the family as they experience the hardships of life in colonial America. High seas adventure, racial strife, slavery, romance, tragedy, and salvation confront this family. The life o...

The Revolutionary War is a recent memory for all early settlers of America, and the War of 1812 looms. The trials and triumphs of the Massie family are chronicled here. Establishing a Southeastern Virginia farm in the late Eighteenth century, follow generations of the family as they experience the hardships of life in colonial America. High seas adventure, racial strife, slavery, romance, tragedy, and salvation confront this family. The life o...

Adorno's aesthetics is one of the most important philosophical analyses of the 20th century, but its development remains unclear. This book for the first time provides a detailed study of the way that Adorno's thinking of aesthetics developed and involved different dimensions that came together to make it uniquely powerful. Principal among these dimensions is his intense interest in music and his concomitant materialist approach. However, by...

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Maurice Blanchot's writings have played a critical role in the development of 20th-century French thought, but the implicit tension in this role has rarely been addressed directly. Reading Blanchot involves understanding how literature can have an effect on philosophy, to the extent of putting philosophy itself in question by exposing a different and literary mode of thought. However, as this mode is to be found most substantially in the pecul...

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Questa è la storia di una piccola città della Germania durante gli anni della Repubblica di Weimar e i primi anni del Terzo Reich, ed è al contempo un tentativo di comprendere come una democrazia civile sia potuta precipitare e affondare in una dittatura. Thalburg (in realtà Nordheim) è un tranquillo centro dell'antico regno dello Hannover, diecimila abitanti, molto commercio e poche industrie, che negli anni che vanno dal 1930 al 1935, come t...

Examines poetic language in the work of Heidegger, Hlderlin and Blanchot.

A rigorous and many-layered study of the works of Blanchot and Adorno in terms of the relation between negativity and autonomy in the work of art with particular reference to literature, which yields a thinking of materiality in language as an ambiguous force of critique and innovation.

Examines poetic language in the work of Heidegger, Hlderlin and Blanchot