The Memory of Thought: An Essay on Heidegger and Adorno

by Alexander García Düttmann

The Memory of Thought reconstructs the philosophy of Adorno and Heidegger in the light of the importance that these thinkers attach to two proper Auschwitz and Germanien. In Adorno's dialectical thinking, Auschwitz is the name of an incommensurable historical event that seems to put a provisional end to history as a negative totality. In Heidegger's thinking of Being, Germanien is a name inscribed in an historical mission on which the fate of Western civilization seems to it thus becomes the name of a positive totality of history.

350 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1991

About the author

Alexander Düttmann is a philosopher with an interest in aesthetics and art, but also in moral and political philosophy. On more than one occasion, he has collaborated with artists. In 2004, the chamber opera Liebeslied / My Suicides, for which I wrote the libretto, and which featured music by Paul Clark and photographs by Rut Blees Luxemburg, opened at the ICA.