Adorno's Imageless Materialism

Sebastian Truskolaski

Adorno's Imageless Materialism

German Studies

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Abstract

The present piece is an attempt to examine the meaning of Theodor W. Adorno’s enigmatic notion of an “imageless materialism” as it appears in his magnum opus Negative Dialectics (1966). As we will find, this
formulation is curious, not least, because it brings together an avowedly materialist concern with an ostensibly biblical motif: the Old Testament ban on making images of God.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	14-23
Number of pages	10
Journal	Studies in Social & Political Thought
Volume	23
Publication status	Published - 1 May 2014

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