Adorno´s Concept of Life

In this important and engaging new book, Alastair Morgan offers a detailed examination of the concept of life in Adorno´s philosophy. He relates Adorno´s thought in this context to a number of key thinkers in the history of Continental philosophy, including Marx, Hegel, Heidegger and Agamben, and provides an argument for the relevance and importance of Adorno´s critical philosophy of life at the beginning of the 21st century. Crucially, Morgan offers a new framework for understanding the relation between concepts of life and a critical philosophy. owever, the concept of life is a constant theme and problem running throughout Adorno´s work, from his early critiques of life-philosophies to his late philosophy of metaphysical experience as the possibility of life.The idea that Adorno´s philosophy is in need of or lacking in a fundamental ontology has been the subject of a great deal of critical attention, but this has rarely been examined through an analysis of the concept of life. 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