Adorno, Theodor W.
Metaphysics: Concept and Problems
- ISBN 13:
- 9780745629001
- author:
- Adorno, Theodor W.
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Polity Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2001
- Pages:
- 224
- Dimensions:
- 22.8 x 15.3 x 1.7 centimetres (0
- Genre:
- Metaphysics & ontology
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 5 working days
Description
This collection of lectures provides an introduction to metaphysics and offers insight into the author's own intellectual standpoint. Adorno explores the central tension between concepts and immediate facts, tracing this dualism back to Aristotle.
The history of metaphysics is marked by this unresolved tension, which Adorno sees as being resolved in the Hegelian dialectic. However, he also identifies a further dichotomy that underlies metaphysics: the attempt to reconcile thought with belief in a reality beyond the empirical.
These lectures, given late in Adorno's life, offer a critical exposition of Aristotle's thought and its central ambiguities. They also address the question of the relevance of metaphysics today, particularly in the aftermath of the Holocaust.
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