The Twilight of Reason: Benjamin, Adorno, Horkheimer and Levinas Tested by the Catastrophe by Ombrosi, Orietta

The Twilight of Reason: Benjamin, Adorno, Horkheimer and Levinas Tested by the Catastrophe (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781644696675)

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The Twilight of Reason: Benjamin, Adorno, Horkheimer and Levinas Tested by the Catastrophe by Ombrosi, Orietta

The Twilight of Reason: Benjamin, Adorno, Horkheimer and Levinas Tested by the Catastrophe

$35.00
The Twilight of Reason: Benjamin, Adorno, Horkheimer and Levinas Tested by the Catastrophe by Ombrosi, Orietta

The Twilight of Reason: Benjamin, Adorno, Horkheimer and Levinas Tested by the Catastrophe

$35.00
Format: Paperback
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"Think of the disaster" is the first injunction of thought when faced with the disaster that struck European Jews during the Shoah. Thinking of the disaster means understanding why the Shoah was able to occur in civilized Europe, moulded by humane reason and the values of progress and enlightenment. It means thinking of a possibility for philosophy's future. Walter Benjamin, who wrestled with these problems ahead of time, Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and Emmanuel Levinas had the courage, the strength and the perception-and sometimes simply the desperation-to think about what had happened. Moved by indignation and the desire to testify, they felt the urgent need to address the cries of agony of Auschwitz's victims in their thinking.

Author: Orietta Ombrosi
ISBN-10: 1644696673
ISBN-13: 9781644696675
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Language: English
Published: 05/18/2021
Pages: 234
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.49d
By Orietta Ombrosi
By Orietta Ombrosi
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Orietta Ombrosi (PhD University of Paris X-Nanterre) is assistant professor of moral philosophy at the Sapienza, University of Rome. She is the author of Le crépuscule de la raison. Benjamin, Adorno, Horkheimer et Levinas à l'épreuve de la Catastrophe, (Hermann, 2007) and L'umano ritrovato. Saggio su Emmanuel Levinas (Marietti, 2010), and the editor of Tra Torah e Sophia. Orizzonti e frontiere della filosofia ebraica (Marietti, 2011).

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