{"product_id":"9781350129207","title":"Adorno and the Ban on Images","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eAdorno and the Ban on Images\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Sebastian Truskolaski\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book upends some of the myths that have come to surround the work of the philosopher Theodor W.   Adorno – not least amongst them, his supposed fatalism. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSebastian Truskolaski argues that   Adorno's writings allow us to address what is arguably the central challenge   of modern philosophy: how to picture a world beyond suffering and injustice   without, at the same time, betraying its vital impulse. By re-appraising   Adorno's writings on politics, philosophy, and art, this book reconstructs   this notoriously difficult author's overall project from a radically new   perspective (Adorno's famous 'standpoint of redemption'), and brings his central   concerns to bear on the problems of today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn the one hand, this means   reading Adorno alongside his principal interlocutors (including Kant, Marx and   Benjamin). On the other hand, it means asking how his secular brand of social   criticism can serve to safeguard the image of a better world – above all,   when the invocation of this image occurs alongside Adorno's recurrent   reference to the Old Testament ban on making images of God.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy reading Adorno in this   iconoclastic way, \u003ci\u003eAdorno and the Ban on Images\u003c\/i\u003e contributes to current debates about Utopia that   have come to define political visions across the political spectrum.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This is a breathtaking exploration of one of the most evocative and undertheorized themes in Adorno's oeuvre. In this searching, lucid and dazzlingly original study, Sebastian Truskolaski manages to achieve what no-one has even attempted. He extricates the “ban on images” from religious pieties and from platitudes about the inexpressible-unimaginable-unspeakable, and demonstrates compellingly that this rigorously disenchanted figure lies at the heart of Adorno's peculiar materialism and is the key to its radical utopian promise. This is a new, exciting reading of Adorno that will also transform the way we think about art and politics today.” —\u003ci\u003eRebecca Comay, Professor of Philosophy and Comparative  Literature, University of Toronto, Canada\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In this exciting new book, Sebastian Truskolaski unpacks the \u003ci\u003eban on images\u003c\/i\u003e around which he argues Adorno's thinking is organized. Far from miring us in an abyss of despair, as Truskolaski presents it, the Adornian \u003ci\u003eBilderverbot\u003c\/i\u003e not only offers considerable resources for challenging the status quo, but an incipient method for thinking our escape.” —\u003ci\u003eCat Moir, Senior Lecturer and Chair of Germanic Studies, University of Sydney, Australia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eAdorno and the Ban on Images\u003c\/i\u003e admirably articulates the significance of Adorno's reworking of the Old Testament ban on images in a variety of contexts, ranging from the musicological to the literary, and from the epistemological to the historical. Through strategic imbrication of meticulous scholarship, sober theoretical vigilance, and critical inventiveness-qualities that are increasingly rare to find-Truskolaski convincingly illuminates a central concern of Adorno's notoriously refractory thinking.” —\u003ci\u003eGerhard Richter, University Professor of Comparative Literature and German Studies, Brown University, USA\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781350129207\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":40769640169678,"sku":"9781350129207","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_f8d7b922-aabd-48ee-a0e5-68d14ca4ed44.jpg?v=1642055495","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781350129207","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}