Sartre and Adorno: The Dialectics of Subjectivity (S U N Y Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)

__Systematic comparison of Sartre and Adorno that focuses on their theories of the subject.__ Sartre and Adorno 4 Contents 8 Acknowledgments 10 Abbreviations Used in the Text and Notes 12 Introduction 14 Part I. Adorno’s Relation to the Existential and Phenomenological Traditions 26 1. Adorno and Kierkegaard 30 ADORNO’S CRITIQUE OF KIERKEGAARD 31 ADORNO’S KIERKEGAARDIAN DEBT 39 2. Adorno and Heidegger 50 ADORNO’S CRITIQUE OF HEIDEGGER 51 ADORNO AND HEIDEGGER ARE IRRECONCILABLE 59 3. Adorno and Husserl 72 Part II. Subjectivity in Sartre’s Existential Phenomenology 82 4. The Frankfurt School’s Critique of Sartre 88 ADORNO ON SARTRE 88 MARCUSE’S CRITIQUE OF BEING AND NOTHINGNESS 91 5. Sartre’s Relation to His Predecessors in the Phenomenological and Existential Traditions 100 BEING 100 KNOWING 110 DEATH 119 6. Sartre’s Mediating Subjectivity 122 SARTRE’S DECENTERED SUBJECT AND FREEDOM 123 BEING-FOR-OTHERS: THE EGO IN FORMATION 135 BAD FAITH AND THE FUNDAMENTAL PROJECT 148 SITUATED FREEDOM AND PURIFIED REFLECTION 163 Part III. Adorno’s Dialectic of Subjectivity 186 7. The (De)Formation of the Subject 194 THE DAWN OF THE SUBJECT 197 SCIENCE, MORALITY, ART 211 ADORNO, SARTRE, ANTI-SEMITISM, AND PSYCHOANALYSIS 229 8. Subjectivity and Negative Dialectics 250 FREEDOM MODEL 261 HISTORY MODEL 275 NEGATIVE DIALECTICS,PHENOMENOLOGY, AND SUBJECTIVITY 286 Notes 296 Bibliography 322 Index 328 A 328 B 330 C 330 D 331 E 331 F 332 G 332 H 332 I 335 J 335 K 335 L 336 M 337 N 337 O 337 P 338 R 338 S 339 T 341 W 341 Z 341 Content: Introduction -- Adorno's relation to the existential and phenomenologicial traditions -- Adorno and Kierkegaard -- Adorno's critique of Kierkegaard -- Adorno's kierkegaardian debt -- Adorno and Heidegger -- Adorno's critique of Heidegger -- Adorno and Heidegger are irreconcilable -- Adorno and Husserl -- Subjectivity in Sartre's existential phenomenology -- The Frankfurt School's critique of Sartre -- Adorno on Sartre -- Marcuse's critique of being and nothingness -- Sartre's relation to his precursors in the phenomenological and existential traditions -- Being -- Knowing -- Death -- Sartre's mediating subjectivity -- Sartre's decentered subject and freedom -- Being-for-others : the ego in formation -- Bad faith and the fundamental project -- Situated freedom and purified reflection -- Adorno's dialectic of subjectivity -- The (de)formation of the subject -- The dawn of the subject -- Science, morality, art -- Adorno, Sartre, anti-semitism, psychoanalysis -- Subjectivity and negative dialectics -- Freedom model -- History model -- Negative dialectics, phenomenology, and subjectivity. Focusing on the notion of the subject in Sartre's and Adorno's philosophies, David Sherman argues that they offer complementary accounts of the subject that circumvent the excesses of its classical formation, yet are sturdy enough to support a concept of political agency, which is lacking in both poststructuralism and second-generation critical theory. Sherman uses Sartre's first-person, phenomenological standpoint and Adorno's third-person, critical theoretical standpoint, each of which implicitly incorporates and then builds toward the other, to represent the necessary poles of any emancipatory social analysis.