Download or read book Adorno, Heidegger, Philosophy and Modernity written by Nicholas Joll and published by Continuum International Publishing Group. This book was released on 2012-07-20 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adorno, Heidegger and Modernity critically investigates a striking claim made by both Theodor Adorno and Martin Heidegger, two of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. Still commonly seen as philosophical antipodes, Adorno and Heidegger unite in claiming that beings in general in modernity are deeply deformed. Both thinkers also provide accounts of beings' nature that seems set to explicate each version of the deformation claim. Yet those claims and their corresponding accounts have not yet been fully explored. Nicholas Joll seeks to address that gap in the existing scholarship and, in so doing, to cast light on transcendental philosophy, on the project of a philosophical critique of modernity and on similarities - and differences - between phenomenology and critical theory.