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Adorno, Theodor Wiesengrund
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A-Z entries provide coverage of more than 100 of Vattimo’s most important concepts and themes, such as ‘Weak Thought’, ‘Art’, ‘Hermeneutics’, ‘Interpretation, ‘Nihilism’, ‘Kenosis’, ‘Postmodernism/Postmodernity’, as well as philosophers who have influenced his thinking and terms of biographical interest, such as ‘Heidegger’, ‘Nietzsche’, ‘Politics’, ‘Europe/European Parliament’. Key criticisms of Vattimo’s work are included by prominent authors in the field, from Franca d’Agostini, Carmelo Dotolo, Silvia Mazzini, Eduardo Mendieta, Robert Valgenti, Federico Vercellone to Santiago Zabala, as well as emerging scholars of his thought, for a total of 53 authors. The Vattimo Dictionaryincludes a biographical introduction by Simonetta Moro as well as a comprehensive bibliography.
Title: Adorno, Theodor Wiesengrund
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A-Z entries provide coverage of more than 100 of Vattimo’s most important concepts and themes, such as ‘Weak Thought’, ‘Art’, ‘Hermeneutics’, ‘Interpretation, ‘Nihilism’, ‘Kenosis’, ‘Postmodernism/Postmodernity’, as well as philosophers who have influenced his thinking and terms of biographical interest, such as ‘Heidegger’, ‘Nietzsche’, ‘Politics’, ‘Europe/European Parliament’.
Key criticisms of Vattimo’s work are included by prominent authors in the field, from Franca d’Agostini, Carmelo Dotolo, Silvia Mazzini, Eduardo Mendieta, Robert Valgenti, Federico Vercellone to Santiago Zabala, as well as emerging scholars of his thought, for a total of 53 authors.
The Vattimo Dictionaryincludes a biographical introduction by Simonetta Moro as well as a comprehensive bibliography.
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Adorno, Theodor Wiesengrund (1903–69)
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Adorno and Environmentalism
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Adorno and Activism
Adorno and Activism
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This chapter revisits Adorno’s ambivalence toward 1960s student activism in the context of his and the Frankfurt School’s extended grappling with the the...

