Language lost, language regained: Adorno’s Proustian reflections on childhood, exile and experience
Philosophy & Social Criticism: An International, Interdisciplinary Journal
Published online on December 17, 2024
Abstract
Philosophy & Social Criticism, Volume 52, Issue 6, Page 867-883, July 2026.
This essay traces how experiences of childhood and exile attain systematic meaning in Adorno’s critical theory of language. Adorno is shown to model the child’s understanding of language after Proust’s novelÁ la recherche du temps perdus. Both focus on ...
This essay traces how experiences of childhood and exile attain systematic meaning in Adorno’s critical theory of language. Adorno is shown to model the child’s understanding of language after Proust’s novelÁ la recherche du temps perdus. Both focus on ...