Dialectics of the body : corporeality in the philosophy of T.W. Adorno

Repressing The Body -- Feminist Interlude I : Avoiding The Sirens : Women In The Dialectic Of Enlightenment -- Interrogating Philosophy : The Bared Breasts Incident -- Feminist Interlude Ii : Entanglement : Remembering Gretel Karplus Adorno -- The Most Forgotten Alien Land : Adorno's Essay On Kafka -- Feminist Interlude Iii : Reading The Body : Kafka's In The Penal Colony -- Feminist Negative Dialectics : Dialectical Materialism And The Transfigured Body. Lisa Yun Lee. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 155-184) And Index. Annotation The study of Theodor Adorno has largely ignored or dismissed the enigmatic and provocative moments in his writing on the body. Dialectics of the Bodycorrects this gap by arguing that Adorno's analysis of reified society emanates and returns to the body and that hope and desire are present throughout Adorno's philosophy The study of Theodor Adorno has largely ignored or dismissed the enigmatic and provocative moments in his writing on the body. Dialectics of the Body corrects this gap by arguing that Adorno's analysis of reified society emanates and returns to the body and that hope and desire are present throughout Adorno's philosophy.