In 'The Jargon of Authenticity' Adorno gives full expression to his hostility to the language employed by certain existentialist thinkers such as Martin Heidegger.
 
With his customary alertness to the uses and abuses of language, he calls into question the jargon, or 'aura', as his colleague Walter Benjamin described it, which clouded existentialists' thought.
 
He argued that its use undermined the very message for meaning and liberation that it sought to make authentic. Moreover, such language - claiming to address the issue of freedom - signally failed to reveal the lack of freedom inherent in the capitalist context in which it was written.
 
Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. Some marks inside front jacket.
Cover: Hardcover.
No. of Pages: 165.