Adorno: The Recovery of Experience (SUNY series, Foster+-

State University of New York Press

AdornoThe Recovery of Experience\nAuthor(s): Roger Foster\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: State University of New York Press, United States\nImprint: State University of New York Press\nISBN-13: 9780791472095, 978-0791472095\nSynopsis\nExamines the role of experience within Adorno's philosophy of language and epistemology.\n\nIn Adorno, Roger Foster argues that there is a coherent critical project at the core of Adorno's philosophy of language and epistemology, the key to which is the recovery of a broader understanding of experience. Foster claims, in Adorno's writings, it is the concept of spiritual experience that denotes this richer vision of experience and signifies an awareness of the experiential conditions of concepts. By elucidating Adorno's view of philosophy as a critical practice that discloses the suffering of the world, Foster shows that Adorno's philosophy does not end up in a form of resignation or futile pessimism. Foster also breaks new ground by placing Adorno's theo.