The Twilight of Reason: Benjamin, Adorno, Horkheimer and Levinas Tested by the Catastrophe
Orietta Ombrosi
Think of the disaster is the first injunction of thought when faced with the disaster that struck European Jews during the Shoah. Thinking of the disaster means understanding why the Shoah was able to occur in civilized Europe, moulded by humane reason and the values of progress and enlightenment. It means thinking of a possibility for philosophy's future. Walter Benjamin, who wrestled with these problems ahead of time, Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and Emmanuel Levinas had the courage, the strength and the perception--and sometimes simply the desperation--to think about what had happened. Moved by indignation and the desire to testify, they felt the urgent need to address the cries of agony of Auschwitz's victims in their thinking
카테고리:
년:
2012
출판사:
Academic Studies Press
언어:
english
페이지:
215
ISBN 10:
161811087X
ISBN 13:
9781618110879
시리즈:
Emunot: Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah
파일:
PDF, 1.43 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2012