The Memory of Thought

An Essay on Heidegger and Adorno

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by Alexander Garcia Duttmann,

Translated by Nicholas Walker

Continuum Publishing

Due/Published March 2003, 352 pages, paper

ISBN 0826459013

Duttmann reconstructs the philosophy of Adorno and Heidegger in the light of the importance that these thinkers attach to two proper names: Auschwitz and Germanien. In Adorno's dialectical thinking, Auschwitz is the name of an incommensurable historical event that seems to put a provisional end to history as a negative totality. In Heidegger's thinking of Being, Germanien is a name inscribed in an historical mission on which the fate of Western civilization seems to depend: it thus becomes the name of a positive totality of history.

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