 | Theodor W. Adorno - Biography & Autobiography - 1978 - 262 pages
...are two sides to everything. 1 53 Finale. - The only philosophy which can be responsibly practised in face of despair is the attempt to contemplate all things as they would present themselves from the standpoint of redemption. Knowledge has no light but that shed on the world... | |
 | Susan Buck-Morss - History - 1979 - 356 pages
...with Benjamin's theses he wrote in 1947: The only philosophy which can be responsibly practiced in face of despair is the attempt to contemplate all things as they would present themselves from the standpoint of redemption.47 Yet if Adorno's acceptance of the theological... | |
 | James Miller, Jim Miller - Non-Classifiable - 1982 - 306 pages
...Adorno expressed these difficulties well. The only philosophy which can be responsibly practiced in face of despair is the attempt to contemplate all things as they would present themselves from the standpoint of redemption. . . . Perspectives must be fashioned that displace... | |
 | Christopher Rowland, Mark Corner - Religion - 1989 - 228 pages
...clearly than in the words of Theodor Adorno: The only philosophy which can be responsibly practised in face of despair is the attempt to contemplate all things as they would present themselves from the standpoint of redemption. Knowledge has no light but that shed on the world... | |
 | Stephen Schecter - Philosophy - 1990 - 184 pages
...order is eroding. Hence Adorno's stricture: "The only philosophy which can be responsibly practised in face of despair is the attempt to contemplate all things as they would present themselves from the standpoint of redemption." 145 So I come back to redemption, do I? Was... | |
 | Jonathan Frankel - History - 1991 - 456 pages
...the methodological confession that appears at the end of Minima Moralia: The only philosophy which can be responsibly practiced in the face of despair...the attempt to contemplate all things as they would present themselves from the standpoint of Redemption. Knowledge has no light but that shed on the world... | |
 | Richard J. Bernstein - Philosophy - 1992 - 372 pages
...crack open encrusted repressive social reality. The only philosophy which can be responsibly practised in the face of despair is the attempt to contemplate all things as they would present themselves from the standpoint of redemption. Knowledge has no light but that shed on the world... | |
 | Harvey Goldman - Social Science - 2023 - 412 pages
...1986). 15. See Adorno, Minima Moralia, 247: "The only philosophy which can be responsibly practised in face of despair is the attempt to contemplate all things as they would present themselves from the standpoint of redemption [Erlosung]. Knowledge has no light but that shed... | |
 | J. M. Bernstein - Philosophy - 1994 - 336 pages
...order.38 The core of Adorno's critical theory is messianic, not materialistic. The only philosophy which can be responsibly practiced in the face of despair...the attempt to contemplate all things as they would present themselves from the standpoint of redemption. Knowledge has no light but that shed on the world... | |
 | William A. Covino - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1994 - 208 pages
...complements this view when he says that "The only philosophy which can be responsibly practised in face of despair is the attempt to contemplate all things as they would present themselves from the standpoint of redemption ... all else is reconstruction, mere technique":... | |
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The only philosophy which can be responsibly practised in the face of despair is the attempt to contemplate all things as they would present themselves from the standpoint of redemption. 
