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Against Epistemology: A Metacritique: Studies in Husserl and the Phenomenological Antinomies (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)
Against Epistemology A Metacritique Studies in Husserl and the Phenomenological Antinomies - Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought Author:Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno Theodor Adorno (1903-1969) was a cultural philosopher, sociologist, literary critic, and historian of music who, along with Max Horkheimer, Herbert Marcuse, and Erich Fromm, founded the Frankfurt School. Against Epistemology is one of his most important works. It inspired Habermas and Marcuse and continues to influence other eminent think... more »ers in philosophy and the social sciences today.
Against Epistemology is in essence a long essay against Western metaphysics or, as Adorno put it, "the lordship of the subject." Traditional philosophy, he noted, leads in practice to fascism. In this book, he combines analytic philosophy, social theory, and cultural criticism to try to show how epistemology betrays experience, using Husserl's work as a concrete model.« less
ISBN-13: 9780262010733 ISBN-10: 0262010739 Pages:248 Edition:1st MIT Press ed Rating: