{"product_id":"9798216437819","title":"Adorno's Aporetic Thinking Problems and Fragments of Damaged Life","description":"\u003ch1\u003eAdorno's Aporetic Thinking\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eProblems and Fragments of Damaged Life\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWilliam S. Allen\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Criticism \/ Comparative Literature\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExtending Adorno's aporetic worldview from  \u003ci\u003eMinima Moralia \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e– \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ethat the problems of contemporary life find their response not through resolution but through reflection \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e– to Adorno's other writings, t\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ehis book offers an innovative new reading of how logic and literary form mutually inform Adorno's thought.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat do we do when we are faced with a problem that cannot be avoided or resolved? How does thought respond to such immovable obstacles? The blocks that are encountered in these terms are those that prevent life from realizing itself, and that consequently leave it stunted or disfigured. For Adorno, such problems are evidence of “damaged life,” which he sought to think through across several of his works, including \u003ci\u003eMinima Moralia: Reflections From Damaged Life.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAdorno's Aporetic Thinking\u003c\/i\u003e unfolds the peculiar mode of thinking that emerges as Adorno attempts to consider the aporetic issue of problems that cannot be simply overcome. Through extended readings of Adorno's works and texts by Kafka, Beckett, and Hegel as interlocutors, this book uncovers a form of thinking that responds to these blocks to life by way of the blocks themselves, which constitutes an aporetic thinking of damaged life, or a thinking of aporias through aporias.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eWilliam S. Allen \u003c\/b\u003e is an independent researcher at the University of Southampton, UK. His publications include \u003ci\u003eKant, Adorno, and the Forms of History\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloomsbury, 2025), \u003ci\u003eAdorno, Aesthetics, Dissonance: On Dialectics in Modernity \u003c\/i\u003e(Bloomsbury, 2022), and \u003ci\u003eNoir and Blanchot: Deteriorations of the Event \u003c\/i\u003e(Bloomsbury, 2020).\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e07 January 2027\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9798216437819\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e272\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e16.0\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51515353563276,"sku":"9798216437819","price":108.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_239c793b-ad07-4b4e-9a1a-c6cbc6a8e5b8.jpg?v=1789055484","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9798216437819","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}