{"product_id":"the-saving-line-mzarton-dornbach-9780810143005","title":"The Saving Line: Benjamin, Adorno, and the Caesuras of Hope","description":"\u003cp\u003eWalter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno both turned to canonical literary narratives to determine why the Enlightenment project was derailed and how this failure might be remedied. The resultant works, Benjamin's major essay on Goethe's \u003ci\u003eElective Affinities\u003c\/i\u003e and Adorno's meditation on the \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e in \u003ci\u003eDialectic of Enlightenment\u003c\/i\u003e, are centrally concerned with the very act of narration. Márton Dornbach's groundbreaking book reconstructs a hitherto unnoticed, wide-ranging dialogue between these foundational texts of the Frankfurt School.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the heart of Dornbach's argument is a critical model that Benjamin built around the concept of caesura, a model Adorno subsequently reworked. Countering an obscurantism that would become complicit in the rise of fascism, the two theorists aligned moments of arrest in narratives mired in unreason. Although this model responded to a specific historical emergency, it can be adapted to identify utopian impulses in a variety of works.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Saving Line\u003c\/i\u003e throws fresh light on the intellectual exchange and disagreements between Benjamin and Adorno, the problematic conjunction of secular reason and negative theology in their thinking, and their appropriations of ancient and modern legacies. It will interest scholars of philosophy and literature, critical theory, German Jewish thought, classical reception studies, and narratology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Márton Dornbach\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0810143003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780810143005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Northwestern University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Márton Dornbach","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48621796753663,"sku":"9780810143005","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-saving-line-mzarton-dornbach-9780810143005","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}