Adorno's Concept of Life

Offers an examination of the concept of life in Adorno's philosophy. This book relates Adorno's thought in this context to a number of key thinkers in the history of Continental philosophy, including Marx and provides an argument for the relevance and importance of Adorno's critical philosophy of life at the beginning of the 21st century.

Furthermore, philosophies of life have seen a resurgence in recent years (particularly with a renewed interest in Bergson's philosophy via the critical reception of Deleuze's philosophy). "Adorno's Concept of Life" is therefore a necessary and timely study that offers a distinctive interpretation of Adorno's philosophy, and will be of central interest to everyone working on Adorno. Furthermore, it provides a powerful interpretation of the critical force of Adorno's philosophy, that will contribute to the renewed interest in the concept of life within contemporary philosophy.

1. Surviving Auschwitz
2. The Idea of Natural History
3. Experience and Life
4. Critique of Ontology
5. Dialectic of Mimesis and Life
6. The Possibility of Living Today
7. Adorno and a Philosophy of Life.