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8Thinking with Cormac McCarthyKrisis 44 (1): 111-115. 2024.This brief essay honor the recently deceased American author Cormac McCarthy by interpreting a short scene from one of his screenplays as a modern instance of genuinely tragic understanding. This interpretation is compared on the one hand with a related yet comedic version of tragic knowledge, and on the other hand with the play "Oedipus the King" by Sophocles. The essay argues that fostering the presentiment of such tragic understanding might be a an effective way of motivating people to act to…Read more
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14Adorno and Literary CriticismIn Peter Eli Gordon (ed.), A companion to Adorno, Wiley. 2019.This essay first contextualizes Adorno's essays in literary criticism in relation to his historico‐philosophical account of modern rationalization and late capitalism, his dialectical theory of culture, and his return to postwar Germany. It then presents the neo‐Marxist and formalist principles that inform his literary criticism, emphasizing the artwork's critical relationship to society, on the one hand, and the theory of aesthetic experience undergone by the artwork's recipient on the other. T…Read more
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31Adorno and the categories of resistanceConstellations 31 (2): 129-145. 2024.Constellations, EarlyView.
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Life, logic, style : on late WittgensteinIn Robert Chodat & John Gibson (eds.), Wittgenstein and Literary Studies, Cambridge University Press. 2022.
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7“Teaching of Life”: Tolstoy’s Moral-Philosophical AestheticsIn Marina F. Bykova, Michael N. Forster & Lina Steiner (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Russian Thought, Springer Verlag. pp. 597-619. 2021.This chapter outlines and evaluates Tolstoy’s theory of art as presented in his What is Art? I focus on his concept of emotion, moral emotions and their expression or elicitation in art works. Along the way I indicate where additional theorizing is required to defend his theory.
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7Riddlework IIn Rüdiger Dannemann, Henry W. Pickford & Hans-Ernst Schiller (eds.), Der Aufrechte Gang Im Windschiefen Kapitalismus: Modelle Kritischen Denkens, Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. pp. 67-91. 2018.Throughout his publications Adorno deploys the concept of ‘riddle-character’ [Rätselcharakter], attributing it to reality as well as to modernist artworks, and likening the activity of philosophy and interpretation to that of riddle-solving. This essay explores the epistemological characteristics of such ‘riddle-work’ in the non-aesthetic context by first interpreting his 1931 inaugural lecture “The Actuality of Philosophy” and distinguishing Adorno’s use of riddle from that of Walter Benjamin. …Read more
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18Der Aufrechte Gang Im Windschiefen Kapitalismus: Modelle Kritischen Denkens (edited book)Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. 2018.Der Band geht zurück auf die Tagung „Der aufrechte Gang im windschiefen Kapitalismus“, die im Januar 2016 in Weimar stattgefunden hat. Ihr Ziel war es, unterschiedliche Traditionen zusammenzuführen, Modelle kritischen Denkens zu vergegenwärtigen und neue Perspektiven der Gesellschaftstheorie zu eröffnen. Die Beiträge widmen sich der Standortbestimmung kritischer Theorien. Sie reflektieren auf ihre Ursprünge, loten ihr zeitdiagnostisches Potential aus und dokumentieren ihren interdisziplinären Ch…Read more
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36Intuition as a Capacity for a Priori KnowledgeJournal of Philosophical Investigations 13 (28): 147-169. 2019.This article lays the groundwork for a defense of rational intuitions by first arguing against a prevalent view according to which intuition is a distinctive psychological state, an “intellectual seeming” that p, that then constitutes evidence that p. An alternative account is then offered, according to which an intuition that p constitutes non-inferential a priori knowledge that p in virtue of the concepts exercised in judging that p. This account of rational intuition as the exercise of concep…Read more
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21Critical Models: Interventions and Catchwords (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2005._Critical Models_ combines into a single volume two of Adorno's most important postwar works -- _Interventions: Nine Critical Models_ and _Catchwords: Critical Models II_. Written after his return to Germany in 1949, the articles, essays, and radio talks included in this volume speak to the pressing political, cultural, and philosophical concerns of the postwar era. The pieces in _Critical Models_ reflect the intellectually provocative as well as the practical Adorno as he addresses such issues …Read more
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1Demystifying the> metaphysics< of meaning: Paul Celan's aesthetic-historical materialismZeitschrift für Ästhetik Und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft 47 (2): 263-295. 2002.
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51In Defense of Intuitions: A New Rationalist ManifestoPalgrave MacMillan. 2013.A reply to contemporary skepticism about intuitions and a priori knowledge, and a defense of neo-rationalism from a contemporary Kantian standpoint, focusing on the theory of rational intuitions and on solving the two core problems of justifying and explaining them
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