Adorno and the need in thinking : new critical essays / edited by Donald Burke ... [and others].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Theses on the language of the philosopher / Theodor W. Adorno -- Adorno's dialectics of language / Michael K. Palamarek -- The 'aesthetic dignity of words' : Adorno's philosophy of language / Samir Gandesha -- The linguistic image : mediation and immediacy in Adorno and Benjamin / Kathy Kiloh -- Metaphysics after Auschwitz : suffering and hope in Adorno's Negative dialectics / Lambert Zuidervaart -- From the actual to the possible : non-identity thinking / Deborah Cook -- Experience and aura : Adorno, McDowell, and 'second nature' / Jonathan Short -- Mystical kernels? Rational shells? : Habermas and Adorno on reification and re-enchantment / Asher Horowitz -- Politics beyond speech : communication and the non-identical / Martin Morris -- Adorno's aesthetics of reconciliation : negative presentation of Utopia or post-metaphysical pipe-dream? / Donald A. Burke -- On Adorno's aesthetics of the ugly / Pamela Leach -- 'Three-minute access' : Fugazi's negative aesthetic / Colin J. Campbell -- A world of difference : Adorno and cultural studies / Shane Gunster -- 'On the morality of thinking', or why still Adorno / Asha Varadharajan -- Adorno and ecological politics / Andrew Biro.