Sartre and Adorno: The Dialectics of Subjectivity

Focusing on the notion of the subject in Sartre s and Adorno s philosophies, David Sherman argues that they offer complementary accounts of the subject that circumvent the excesses of its classical formation, yet are sturdy enough to support a concept of political agency, which is lacking in both poststructuralism and second-generation critical theory. Sherman uses Sartre s first-person, phenomenological standpoint and Adorno s third-person, critical theoretical standpoint, each of which implicitly incorporates and then builds toward the other, to represent the necessary poles of any emancipatory social analysis.