Adorno Theodor - The Jargon Of Authenticity - Paperback Natural History Artist: Sonic Flower

Artist: Sonic Flower

This new translation vividly reveals the story - telling powers of the original author while detailed notes illuminate aspects of ancient Indian society and religion to the non - specialist reader

Author(s): Linzey Andrew (Director Of The Oxford Centre For Animal Ethics And A Member Of The Faculty Of Theology Director Of The Oxford Centre For Animal Ethics And A Member Of The Faculty Of Theology University Of Oxford)

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Adorno Theodor - The Jargon Of Authenticity - Paperback Natural History Artist: Sonic FlowerBinding: Paperback Description: Theodor Adorno was no stranger to controversy. In The Jargon of Authenticity he gives full expression to his hostility to the language employed by certain existentialist thinkers such as Martin Heidegger. With his customary alertness to the uses and abuses of language he calls into question the jargon or 'aura' as his colleague Walter Benjamin described it which clouded existentialists thought. He argued that its use