Sartre and Adorno: The Dialectics of Subjectivity

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Contents Acknowledgments IX Abbreviations Used in the Text and Notes Xl Introduction 1 PART 1. Adorno's Relation to the Existential and Phenomenological Traditions 13 1 Adorno and Kierkegaard 17 Adorno's Critique of Kierkegaard 18 Adorno's Kierkegaardian Debt 26 2 Adorno and Heidegger 37 Adorno's Critique of Heidegger 38 Adorno and Heidegger Are Irreconcilable 46 3 Adorno and Husser! 59 PART II. Subjectivity in Sartre's Existential Phenomenology 69 4 The Frankfurt School's Critique of Sartre 75 Adorno on Sartre 75 Marcuse's Critique of Being and Nothingness 78 Vll 5 Sartre’s Relation to His Predecessors in the Phenomenological and Existential Traditions 87 Being 87 Knowing 97 Death 106 6 Sartre’s Mediating Subjectivity 109 Sartre’s Decentered Subject and Freedom 110 Being-for-Others: The Ego in Formation 122 Bad Faith and the Fundamental Project 135 Situated Freedom and Purified Reflection 150 PART III. Adorno’s Dialectic of Subjectivity 173 7 The (De)Formation of the Subject 181 The Dawn of the Subject 184 Science, Morality, Art 198 Adorno, Sartre, Anti-Semitism, and Psychoanalysis 216 8 Subjectivity and Negative Dialectics 237 Freedom Model 248 History Model 262 Negative Dialectics, Phenomenology, and Subjectivity 273 Notes 283 Bibliography 309 Index 315 viii CONTENTS ...