{"product_id":"kant-adorno-and-the-forms-of-history-9798765133965","title":"Kant, Adorno, and the Forms of History","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKant, Adorno, and the Forms of History\u003c\/i\u003esets the works of Theodor Adorno, Immanuel Kant and Peter Weiss in dialogue, revealing how an interrogation of the aesthetics of 'the whole' and the conception of history in Western thought reveals new ways of thinking about history and historically.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo conceive of history as such it is necessary to conceive it as a whole, but doing so carries implications about its development and direction. Furthermore, such an idea makes it difficult to consider its parts without subsuming them to the whole, thereby making individuals merely instrumental to achieving the aims of history. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWilliam S. Allen brings the thought of Kant, Adorno and Weiss to bear on these tensions, tracing how Adorno's reconsideration of history through his readings of Kant's \u003ci\u003eCritique of Judgement\u003c\/i\u003eare distinct from formulations offered by other thinkers (Marx, Hegel, Lyotard). Allen establishes that Kant's \u003ci\u003eCritique of Judgement\u003c\/i\u003e is not only a sustained analysis of the development of forms, whether aesthetic or organic, but also a tacit interrogation of the form of the whole and the possibilities of thinking it. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eKant, Adorno, and the Forms of History\u003c\/i\u003eargues that Adorno has taken up this interrogation more than any other thinker and through his aesthetics has introduced an alternative thought, which has been modified and extended in the work of Peter Weiss in his last novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Aesthetics of Resistance\u003c\/i\u003e. Within this thought lies the possibility of thinking history without the whole, without unity or purpose, which is a possibility that may offer new insights in the face of imminent environmental, economic and political collapse.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam S. Allen \u003c\/b\u003e(PhD, University of Warwick) is an independent researcher at the University of Southampton, UK, and the author of the following books: \u003ci\u003eEllipsis: Of Poetry and the Experience of Language after Heidegger, Hölderlin, and Blanchot\u003c\/i\u003e(2007); \u003ci\u003eAesthetics of Negativity: Blanchot, Adorno, and Autonomy\u003c\/i\u003e (2016); \u003ci\u003eWithout End: Sade's Critique of Reason\u003c\/i\u003e(Bloomsbury, 2018); \u003ci\u003eBlanchot and the Outside of Literature\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloomsbury, 2019); \u003ci\u003eNoir and Blanchot: Deteriorations of the Event\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloomsbury, 2020); and \u003ci\u003eAdorno, Aesthetics, Dissonance: On Dialectics in Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloomsbury, 2022).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51807152800018,"sku":"9798765133965","price":131.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_385f2e20-a80b-4b32-a435-90a16577d8a7.jpg?v=1766044110","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/kant-adorno-and-the-forms-of-history-9798765133965","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}