The Memory of Thought
An Essay on Heidegger and Adorno| By: | Alexander García Düttmann |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury UK |
| Print ISBN: | 9780826459008 |
| eText ISBN: | 9780826439048 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 2002 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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The Memory of Thought reconstructs the philosophy of Adorno and Heidegger in the light of the importance that these thinkers attach to two proper names: Auschwitz and Germanien. In Adorno's dialectical thinking, Auschwitz is the name of an incommensurable historical event that seems to put a provisional end to history as a negative totality. In Heidegger's thinking of Being, Germanien is a name inscribed in an historical mission on which the fate of Western civilization seems to depend: it thus becomes the name of a positive totality of history.