Adorno As A Modernist Writer
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2020
Published In
A Companion To Adorno
Abstract
Like other major modernist writers, Adorno sets himself against modern social formations, understood as deadening and evacuated of meaning. In Minima Moralia , he makes emphatic use of distinctively modernist literary techniques within philosophy as a form of writing. In focusing on particular circumstances of trauma and epiphany, he seeks to disclose in images the hollowness of modern life and to gesture toward life otherwise.
Keywords
modernism, modernity, philosophy, epiphany, trauma, figuration
Published By
John Wiley & Sons
Editor(s)
P. E. Gordon, E. Hammer, and M. Pensky
Recommended Citation
Richard Thomas Eldridge.
(2020).
"Adorno As A Modernist Writer".
A Companion To Adorno.
383-395.
DOI: 10.1002/9781119146940.ch24
https://works.swarthmore.edu/fac-philosophy/587